Muscovite Civil War Muscovite Civil War The Muscovite Civil War, or Great Feudal War, was a prolonged conflict that cast its shadow over the entire reign of Vasily II of Moscow (from 1425 to 1453). The two warring parties were Vasily II, the Grand Prince of Moscow, as one party, and his uncle, Yury Dmitrievich, the Prince of Zvenigorod, and the sons of Yuri Dmitrievich, Vasily Kosoy and Dmitry Shemyaka, as the other party. In the intermediate stage, the party of Yury conquered Moscow, but in the end, Vasily II regained his crown. It was the first civil war in the history of
Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618) commonly the "Russo–Polish War", with the term Russia replacing the term Muscovy. In Polish historiography, the wars are usually referred to as the "Dimitriads": the "First Dymitriad" (1605–1606) and "Second Dymitriad" (1607–1609) and the "Polish–Muscovite War" (1609–1618), which can subsequently be divided into two wars of 1609–1611 and 1617–1618, and may or may not include the 1617–1618 campaign, which is sometimes referred to as "Chodkiewicz [Muscovite] Campaign". According to Russian historiography, the chaotic events of the war fall into the "Time of Troubles". The conflict with Poles is commonly called the "Polish Invasion", "Polish Intervention", or more specifically the "Polish