Ivan III of Russia |Ivan III (The Great)| |Portrait from the
17th-century Titulyarnik| |Reign||5 April 1462 – 27 October
1505| |Coronation||14 April 1502| |Consort||Maria of Tver
|Mother||Maria of Borovsk| 22 January 1440| Moscow, Grand Duchy
of Moscow |Died||27 October 1505 Moscow, Grand Duchy of Moscow
|Burial||Cathedral of the Archangel, Moscow| Ivan III
Vasilyevich (Russian: Иван III Васильевич) (22 January 1440,
Moscow – 27 October 1505, Moscow), also known as Ivan the Great,
was a Grand Prince of Moscow and "Grand Prince of all Rus"
(Великий князь всея Руси). Sometimes referred to as the
"gatherer of the Russian lands," he tripled the territory of his
state, ended the dominance of the Golden Horde over the Rus,
renovated the Moscow Kremlin, and laid the foundations of the
Russian state. He was one of the longest-reigning Russian rulers
in history. Gathering of Russian lands  His first enterprise was
a war with the Republic of Novgorod, which had fought a series
of wars (stretching back to at least the r