Konstantin Dmitrievich

Konstantin Dmitrievich (May 16, 1389-1434) - Prince Uglitsky (1427-1433).

Konstantin Dmitrievich
“In the same winter of the month of December, Prince Konstantin Dmitrievich came to Veliky Novgorod, appointed governor as his brother, Grand Duke Vasily Dmitrievich”
Prince Uglitsky 1427 - 1433
Predecessor	Vasily Vladimirovich
Successor	Dmitry Yuryevich Shemyaka
Viceroy of Pskov 1411 - 1414
Predecessor	Alexander Fedorovich Schepa
Successor	Andrey Alexandrovich
Viceroy of Novgorod 1408 - 1414
Viceroy of Pskov 1406 - 1408
Predecessor	Daniil Alexandrovich
Successor	Daniil Alexandrovich
Birth	1389 ( 1389 )
Death	1434 ( 1434 )
Burial place
Rod	Rurikovich : Moscow
Father	Dmitry Ivanovich Donskoy
Mother	Evdokia Dmitrievna
Children	did not leave

The youngest (eighth) son of Dmitry Donskoy . He was born on May 14 or 15, 1389 (four or five days before the death of his father on May 19). According to the will of the father in case a son is born, his brothers will give him small parts from their inheritance. Konstantin’s destiny changed many times as a result of redistribution between the brothers, until, finally, Uglich was established for him.

In 1406, Grand Duke Vasily Dmitrievich sent him to Pskov at the request of the Pskovites; the chronicler notes at the same time that Prince Constantine, although young, was “perfect with the mind”; his military enterprises led by the Pskovs against the Germans were quite successful. In 1408, he was sent by the governor of the Grand Duke to Novgorod . In 1411, the Pskovs “escorted” their former governor, Prince Alexander Fedorovich , from themselves and asked themselves Constantine; he ruled both Novgorod and Pskov. In 1414 he left for Moscow.

In 1419, he quarreled with his older brother, the Grand Duke, who wanted to "sign him under his son Basil "; Konstantin did not want to obey and left in 1420 in Novgorod, where he was received with honor, received the suburbs and a special monetary fee - the baskets . Vasily deprived him of his inheritance, arrested his boyars , and wrote down villages and property to his treasury.

In August 1420, Prince Konstantin Dmitrievich offered peace to the master of Livonia from Pskov and Veliky Novgorod.

In 1421, the brothers reconciled and Konstantin, richly gifted by the Novgorodians, came to Moscow. After the death of Vasily Dmitrievich Konstantin supported his son Vasily II the Dark in the fight against his uncle (his brother) Yuri Dmitrievich . In 1425, he pursued Yuri to Sura , and in 1429 he went on a campaign against the Tatars , who devastated the banks of the Volga .

He died at the end of 1433 or at the beginning of 1434, taking a monastic image in the Simon Monastery with the name of Cassian . He did not leave offspring.