A long conversation about world history: the Byzantinism of Ivan III (27.11.2021)

Date
27 November 2021
Duration
33:26
Platform
YouTube

A street debate by Vitaliy Dribnytsia on world history and the rise of Moscow: how Ivan III, through his marriage to Sophia Palaiologina, adopted “Byzantinism” to justify his tsarist claims (he himself remained a grand prince; only Ivan IV became tsar); how Moscow’s conquest of the Chernihiv-Siverian lands differed from the Lithuanian incorporation of the Rusian lands through dynastic marriages, and why the Muscovite-Lithuanian wars lasted more than eighty years.

Key moments

  1. 08:17 Sophia Palaiologina and the «Byzantinism» of Ivan III
  2. 08:56 Ivan III was a grand prince; it was Ivan IV who proclaimed himself tsar
  3. 11:02 «Prince of all Rus'» as a claim to the lands of Lithuania
  4. 13:14 The Chernihiv princes defect from Lithuania to Moscow (early 16th c.)
  5. 16:06 Incorporation (Lithuania) versus conquest (Moscow)

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