Vasili III of Moscow (Tudor Line)

Vasili III of Moscow was born on 25 March 1479 to Ivan III and Sophia, granddaughter of the Byzantine Emperor Manuel II. Vasili spent most of his life puting together his land of the Grandduchy of Moscow. His family life was however completly empty. His wife Solomonia Saburova didn't produce an heir in 20 years, so he send her to nunery in 1526 and married Elena Glinskaya, for this the patriarch was very angry and it is said he predicted that his son Ivan would become a paranoid ruler. In 1530 his second son Yuri was born, at the same he was constantly limiting powers of Boyars and nobility in general. In 1533 Vasili went on a hunt from which he returned in pain and no doctors were able to save him, son Ivan became a new Grandprince at age 5.