See also:

• DEMETRIUS

DEMETRIUS DONSK01 1 (1350-1389)  , See also:

• GRAND

grand See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

• VLADIMIR
• VLADIMIR, ST (c. 956-1015)

Vladimir and See also:

• MOSCOW (Russian Moskva)
• MOSCOW, (Russian Moskva)

Moscow, son of the grand duke See also:

• IVAN (JOHN)

Ivan Ivanovich by his second See also:

• CONSORT (Lat. consors, a companion)

consort Aleksandra, was placed on the grand-ducal See also:

• THRONE

throne of Vladimir by the Tatar See also:

• KHAN (from the Turki, hence Persian and Arabic Khan)

khan in 1362, and married the princess Eudoxia of Nizhniy See also:

• NOVGOROD
• NOVGOROD (formerly known as V elikiy-Novgorod, Great Novgorod)

Novgorod in 1364 . It was now that Moscow 'Of the See also:

• DON
• DON (anc. Tanais)

Don . 983 was first fortified by a strong See also:

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall, or kreml (citadel), and the grand duke began " to bring all the other princes under his will." See also:

• MICHAEL
• MICHAEL (1596-1645)
• MICHAEL (Hebrew Sn,q, " Who is like God? ")

Michael, See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince of See also:

• TVER

Tver, appealed however for help to See also:

• OLGIERD (d. 1377)

Olgierd, grand duke of Lithuania, who appeared before Moscow with his See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army and compelled See also:

• DEMETRIUS

Demetrius to make restitution to the prince of Tver (1369) . The See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war between Tver and Vladimir continued intermittently for some years, and both the See also:

• TATARS (the common form Tartars is less correct)

Tatars and the See also:

• LITHUANIANS

Lithuanians took an active See also:

• PART

part in it . Demetrius was generally successful in what was really a contention for the supremacy . In 1371 he won over the khan by a See also:

• PERSONAL

personal visit to the See also:

• HORDE

Horde, add in 1372 he defeated the Lithuanians at Lyubutsk . Demetrius then formed a See also:

• LEAGUE

league of all the See also:

• RUSSIAN

Russian princes against the Tatars and in 138o encountered them on the See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain of Kulikovo, between the See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

rivers Nepryadvaya and Don, where he completely routed them, the grand khan Mamai perishing in his See also:

• FLIGHT

flight from the See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field . But now Toktamish, the See also:

• DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy of Tamerlane, suddenly appeared in the Horde and organized a punitive expedition against Demetrius . Moscow was taken by treachery, and the Russian lands were again subdued by the Tatars (1381) . Nevertheless, while compelled to submit to the Horde, Demetrius maintained his See also:

• HEGEMONY (Gr. i7ye,uovia, leadership, from it-yo-Oat, to lead, the leadership especially of one particular state in a group of federated or loosely united states. The term was first applied in Greek history to the position claimed by different individual

hegemony over Tver, Novgorod and the other recalcitrant Russian principalities, and even held his own against the Lithuanian grand See also:

• DUKES
• DUKES, LEOPOLD (1810-1891)

dukes, so that by his last testament he was able to leave not only his ancestral possessions but his grand-dukedom also to his son See also:

• BASIL (Russ. VASILY)

Basil . Demetrius was one of the greatest of the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north Russian grand dukes . He was not merely a cautious and tactful statesman, but also a valiant and capable See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

captain, in striking contrast to most of the princes of his See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house .

See Sergyei Solovev, See also:

• HISTORY

History of See also:

• RUSSIA
• RUSSIA (Rossiya)

Russia (Rus.), vols. i.-ii . (St See also:

• PETERSBURG

Petersburg, 1887), &c.; Nikolai Savelev, Demetrius Ivanovich Donskoi (Rus.), (Moscow, 1837) . (R . N .