Yury of Zvenigorod

Yury of Zvenigorod
Grand Prince of Moscow
PredecessorVasily II
SuccessorVasily Kosoy
Born26 November 1374
Pereslavl, Grand Duchy of Moscow
Died5 June 1434(1434-06-05) (aged 59)
Galich
Burial
ConsortAnastasya Yurievna
IssueVasily Kosoy
Dmitry Shemyaka
Dmitry Krasny
DynastyRurik
FatherDmitry Donskoy
MotherEudoxia Dmitriyevna
ReligionRussian Orthodox

Yury Dmitrievich (Russian: Юрий Дмитриевич; 1374 – 1434), also known as George II of Moscow, Yury of Zvenigorod and Jurij Zwenihorodski (Russian: Юрий Звенигородский), was the second son of Dmitry Donskoy. He was the Duke of Zvenigorod and Galich from 1389 until his death. During the reign of his brother Vasily I, he took part in the campaigns against Torzhok (1392), Zhukotin (1414), and Novgorod (1417). He was the chief orchestrator of the Muscovite Civil War against his nephew, Vasily II, in the course of which he twice took Moscow, in 1433 and 1434.[1]

  1. ^ Соловьев, Сергей Михайлович. "2". История России с древнейших времен (in Russian). Vol. 4. Retrieved December 20, 2011.