{{Short description|Grand Prince of Moscow}} {{Family name hatnote|Yuryevich||lang=Eastern Slavic}} [[File:Frescos in Cathedral of the Archangel in Moscow - west wall 01 - Vasily Kosoy.jpg|thumb|150px|Vasily Kosoy; fresco from the [[Cathedral of the Archangel]] (1666)]] '''Vasiliy Yuryevich Kosoy (the Squint)''' ({{langx|ru|Василий Юрьевич Косой}}; {{Circa|1401}}–1448) was prince of [[Zvenigorod]] from 1421. He continued his father's claim on the title of [[Grand Prince of Moscow]] in 1434.
==Life==
Vasily Kosoy was the son of [[Yury Dmitrievich]] and Anastasia of Smolensk. His grandfather was [[Dmitry Donskoy]] who settled the issue of crown inheritance by passing a law according to which his oldest son [[Vasily I of Moscow|Vasily I]] would become Grand Prince after his death and the second in line would be Donskoy's younger son Yury Dmitrievich. After coming to power, Kosoy's uncle Vasily I changed these laws so that his sons became crown heirs and not Kosoy's father. This decision resulted in two civil wars between the older and younger Dmitry Donskoy line.
In the beginning, Yury Dmitrievich accepted the rule of [[Vasily II of Moscow|Vasily II]]'s regency, but when the ruler became of age in 1433, he started a rebellion. Yury Dmitrievich defeated the forces of [[Vasily II of Moscow|Vasily II]] and proclaimed himself [[Grand Prince of Moscow]]. Shortly after this victory, he died in 1434 and Vasily Kosoy became Grand Prince. This change of leadership resulted in the revolt of [[Dmitry Shemyaka]] who refused to accept his brother's rule. Shemyaka united his forces with [[Vasily II of Moscow|Vasily II]] and defeated Vasily Kosoy who escaped Moscow in 1435. The decisive battle of this civil war was fought on 14 May 1436 near the village of Skoryatin in the [[Rostov, Yaroslavl Oblast|Rostov]] province where Kosoy was defeated, imprisoned and shortly afterwards blinded.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hronos.km.ru/biograf/vasili_kos.html |title=Василий Юрьевич Косой |access-date=2009-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003201354/http://hronos.km.ru/biograf/vasili_kos.html |archive-date=2008-10-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==Ancestors== {{ahnentafel |collapsed=yes |align=center |boxstyle_1=background-color: #fcc; |boxstyle_2=background-color: #fb9; |boxstyle_3=background-color: #ffc; |boxstyle_4=background-color: #bfc; |boxstyle_5=background-color: #9fe; |1= '''Vasily Yuryevich''' |2= [[Yury Dmitrievich|Yury Dmitriyevich of Zvenigorod]] |3= Anastasia Yuryevna |4= [[Dmitry Donskoy]] |5= [[Eudoxia of Moscow|Yevdokia Dmitriyevna]] |6= [[Yury of Smolensk|Yury Svyatoslavich of Smolensk]] |7= Alyona Olegovna |8= [[Ivan II of Moscow]] |9= [[Alexandra Velyaminova]] |10= [[Dmitry of Suzdal|Dmitry Konstantinovich of Suzdal]] |11= Anna |12= Svyatoslav Ivanovich of Smolensk |14= [[Oleg II of Ryazan]] |15= Yefrosinya }}
== See also == * [[Muscovite Civil War]]
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