Mikhail Dmitrievich (Prince of Kholmsky)

Representative of the Tver princely family of Kholmsky . Rurikovich in the XVII knee. The eldest son of Prince Dmitry Yuryevich Kholmsky. Younger brothers are princes Daniil , Vasily and Ivan Kholmsky.

In the 1450s, after the death of his father, Mikhail Dmitrievich inherited the Kholmsky inheritance . In the 1460s, his younger brother Daniil joined the service of the Grand Duke of Moscow, Ivan III Vasilyevich . But Mikhail Kholmsky did not follow the example of his brother and remained in the service of the great princes of Tver.

In August 1485, the Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan III Vasilyevich organized and personally led a large military campaign against the Tver Principality . The last Grand Duke of Tver, Mikhail Borisovich ( 1461 - 1485 ) entered into secret negotiations with the Grand Duke of Lithuania and the King of Poland Casimir Jagiellonchik , directed against Moscow.

September 8, 1485 the Moscow regiments besieged Tver and lit a city posad. On September 10, almost all the princes and boyars fled from the capital, leaving Grand Duke Mikhail Borisovich . The Tverskaya nobility arrived at the camp of the Grand Duke of Moscow and beat the “brow” of acceptance for service. On September 11, Mikhail Borisovich fled from besieged Tver to Lithuania at night. Then the Tver bishop Vassian , Prince Mikhail Kholmsky and other princes, boyars and ordinary people, who remained faithful to their ruler, “opened the city to John, went out and bowed to him as the general monarch of Russia.” Ivan III forbade the army to rob the city and its surroundings. On September 15, he entered Tver and on the same day handed over the principality to his eldest son and co-ruler, Ivan Ivanovich the Young . Together with the fall of Tver, the Kholmsk specific princedom ceased to exist.

In the winter of 1486, Prince Mikhail Dmitrievich Kholmsky was arrested and sent to prison in Vologda on the orders of the Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan III for treason against former overlord Mikhail Borisovich.

That winter, Prince Grand Duke Mikhail Kholmskago and, finally, an ambassador to Vologda for having retreated his prince Mikhail Tferskago and kissing the cross and lying to the Grand Duke, saying: “ Believe in evil whoever lies to God .”

- Tatishchev V. N. “Russian History”, Scientific and Publishing Center “Ladomir”, Moscow, 1996 ISBN 5-86218-204-7 , p. 74

• Vasiliy
• Ivan
• Ulyana (d. 1504), wife from 1476 of the specific prince Boris Vasilievich Volotsky (1449–94), younger brother of Ivan III.

• Tatishchev V. N. “ Russian History ”, Scientific-Publishing Center “Ladomir”, Moscow, 1996 ISBN 5-86218-204-7
• Voitovich L.V. Knyazivsky dynasty of the Scheduled Europe (Kinets IX - the cob of the XVI century): warehouse, role and political role. History-genealogical research . - Lviv: Institute of Ukrainian Studies im. I. Krip'yakevicha, 2000 .-- 649 p. - ISBN 966-02-1683-1 . (Ukrainian)