Yury Ivanovich (; 23 March 14803 August 1536) was the second surviving son of Ivan III and his wife Sophia Paleologue. Since 1519, his appanages included Dmitrovskoe knjazevstvo. When his elder brother Vasily III ascended to the throne, Yury was 24 years old. Like his other brothers, he was forbidden to marry until Vasily could produce an heir and even then he was not allowed to marry without the ruler's permission. For Yury Ivanovich this permission never came because after his brother's death in 1533 his widow and regent for the young

Ivan IV Ivan IV Vasilyevich (; – ), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible,; ; monastic name: Jonah. was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584. ...

, Elena Glinskaya, began to suspect Yury. Not long after that Yury was arrested and put in prison where he died of starvation in 1536.

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Иван III Васильевич
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