Mikhail Vasilievich

After the death of his elder brother Basil in 1362. received in possession of Kashin with the volost. In 1364 He took part in the struggle of his father with the specific Mikulinsky prince Mikhail Alexandrovich for the Dorogobuzh principality. In 1367 went with his father and Dorogobuzh Prince Yeremey Konstantinovich to Tver volosts, which they robbed and devastated. When Mikhail Alexandrovich, who had become the Grand Duke of Tver by that time, returned from Lithuania with a strong army, Mikhail Vasilievich, fearing for the fate of his inheritance, was one of the first to come to the Grand Duke to “take peace with him”. In 1368, Mr .. again opened a case about the Dorogobuzh inheritance and for this went for help to Moscow to Metropolitan Alexei. His struggle was one of the most important causes of the Moscow-Lithuanian war . In 1371, he gave up his godfather kisses to Mikhail Alexandrovich and went over to the side of Moscow. However, the Grand Duke of Tver moved the army to Kashin, took it and destroyed it, and brought Mikhail Vasilyevich “in all his will”, although not for long. Around 1372, Mikhail Vasilievich again left for Moscow, and from there to the Horde, but returned with nothing.

Since 1349, he was married to the daughter of Grand Duke of Moscow Semyon the Proud Vasilisa, from whose marriage he left his only son - Vasily , the specific prince of Kashinsky.

• Lithuanian-Moscow war of 1368–1372

• Tver (great and specific princes) // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.

• Mikhail Vasilievich at the Rodovod . Tree of ancestors and descendants