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# After his victory at the Battle of the River Cherekha in 1436, during the feudal war of the fifteenth century, Vasily Vasilyevich, Grand Duke of Vladimir and Moscow, ordered one eye to be put out of his cousin and rival for the Muscovite throne, Prince Va
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- Published: 2022-06-13T12:27:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:38:33.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Monarchies, Moscow, Society, People

After his victory at the Battle of the River Cherekha in 1436, during the feudal war of the fifteenth century, Vasily Vasilyevich, Grand Duke of Vladimir and Moscow, ordered one eye to be put out of his cousin and rival for the Muscovite throne, Prince Vasily Yuryevich, who thereafter received the nickname Kosoy ("the Squint-Eyed"). Ten years later Prince Vasily Vasilyevich was seized in the Trinity Monastery by his cousins Ivan of Mozhaysk and Dmitry Shemyaka, together with Prince Boris of Tver, who blinded Vasily II in revenge for the blinding of Vasily the Squint-Eyed. From then on Vasily II was known as Temny ("the Dark"). Thus two of the Grand Dukes of Moscow found themselves forcibly deprived of their sight. But in the end it came out not as an eye for an eye, but as two eyes for one.

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