Yury of Zvenigorod | |
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Grand Prince of Moscow | |
Predecessor | Vasily II |
Successor | Vasily Kosoy |
Born | 26 November 1374 Pereslavl, Grand Duchy of Moscow |
Died | 5 June 1434 Galich | (aged 59)
Burial | |
Consort | Anastasya Yurievna |
Issue | Vasily Kosoy Dmitry Shemyaka Dmitry Krasny |
Dynasty | Rurik |
Father | Dmitry Donskoy |
Mother | Eudoxia Dmitriyevna |
Religion | Russian 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]