Son of Vladimir Monomah, Yuri Dolgorukiy - founder of Moskovia.

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Son of Vladimir Monomah, Yuri Dolgorukiy - founder of Moskovia.

The token is made of silver. Weight – 1 gram. Float in bottles of vodka «with silver premium». This vodka with silver is produced in Vyksa, Nizhny Novgorod region, Russia, at the distillery «Standart».

Yuri spent much of his life in internecine strife with the other Rurikid princes for suzerainty over the Kievan Rus, which had been held by his father - Vladimir Monomakh, and his elder brother before him. Although he twice managed to hold Kyiv in September 1149 - April 1151, again in March 1155 - May 1157, and rule as Grand Prince of all Rus', his autocratic rule and perceived foreigner status made him unpopular with the powerful Kievan boyars, leading to his presumed poisoning and the expulsion of his son (later Andrei Bogoliubsky of Vladimir-Suzdal) in 1157.

Yuri I Vladimirovich, commonly known as Yuri Dolgorukiy was a Rurikid prince. Noted for successfully curbing the privileges of the landowning boyar class in Rostov-Suzdal and his ambitious building programme, Yuri transformed this principality into the independent power that would evolve into early modern Muscovy.

His rule marked the effective end of the Rus' as a unified entity until the Mongol invasions, with powerful provincial territories like Vladimir-Suzdal and Galicia-Volhynia now competing for the throne of Kiev.

Founder

Vyksa, Nizhny Novgorod region, Russia.

Date

2009.

Culture

Russia.

Medium

Silver 0.999.

Dimensions

14x1.

Classification

Token.

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