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Solomonia Saburova
Read more...Solomonia Saburova was the daughter of a nobleman called Yury Saburov, who was descended from the Tatar khans who founded the Ipatiev Monastery in Kostroma in the early fourteenth century. She was bo...
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Elena Glinska
Read more...Elena Glinska was the daughter of Prince Wasyl Glinski of Lithuania and Princess Ana Jakši? of Serbia. The Glinski family moved from Poland to Muscovy in 1507, where Elena was born circa 1508. In 152...
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Prince Yury of Uglich
Read more...Prince Yury (Georgy) was the second child and second son of Basil III and Elena Glinska. He was born on 30 October 1532. He was a feeble degenerate. He married Princess Ulyana of Palekh (1558) and ha...
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