Russian history: part 3

After a short time-out, we're starting the third part. It will include the following chapters:

Birth and growth of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

• 38: First Lithuanian dukes
• 39: Union of Lithuania and Poland. Jogaila
• 40: Vytautas
• 41: Lithuanian duchy after Vytautas

Birth and growth of the Grand Duchy of Muscovy

• 42: Reasons for the rise of Moscow
• 43: Grand knyaz Ivan Kalita and his successors
• 44: Dimitri Donskoy and the battle of Kulikovo field
• 45: Grand knyazes Vasily I Dimitrievich and Vasily II Vasilyevich the Dark

Formation of the Great Russian state

• 46: Grand knyaz Ivan III Vasilyevich, importance of his rule
• 47: Subjugation of Novgorod the Great and the Novgorod lands
• 48: Joining the appanage duchies
• 49: Family and court of Ivan III
• 50: Foreign policy of Ivan III: Mongols
• 51: Foreign policy of Ivan III: Lithuania and Livonia. Relations with the West
• 52: Grand knyaz Vasily III Ivanovich

Transformation of the appanages into state

• 53: The autocracy of the rulers of Muscovy and Moscow as the third Rome
• 54: Boyars and knyazhata: their ambitions
• 55: Classes: landlords and peasants
• 56: Church as a landlord.