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'Dmitri Mikhailovich of Tver' (Russian: Дмитрий Михайлович Тверcкой; nicknamed 'The Terrible Eyes' - Грозные Очи; 1299 — September 15, 1326) was a Grand Prince of Vladimir and a Grand Prince of Tver from 1318 to 1326. He was a son of Mikhail of Tver and Anna of Kashin.
Dmitri continued his father's fight with Grand Prince Yuri Danilovich of Moscow for the the ''yarlik'' (also iarlik) that is, the diploma or patent of office for the title of Grand Prince of Vladimir, which was granted by the Khan of the Golden Horde. The title was much desired because the Grand Prince of Vladimir was the khan's tax-collector in Rus', and as such could gain authority and real power over the other princes of Rus'.
Following Yury's machinations which led the khan to grant the yarlik to Moscow and their father's execution at the Horde in 1318, Dmitri and his brother, Aleksandr, fought a series of battles with Yuri and intrigued against him at the Horde, culminating in Yuri's murder at the Horde (in Sarai) in 1325 probably on Dmitri's orders, although there is no hard evidence of this. Dmitri was himself arrested for the murder and executed in Sarai on the orders of Uzbeg Khan the following year.^[1]

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1. John Fennell, "Princely Executions in the Horde 1308-1339," ''Forschungen zur Osteuropaischen Geschichte'' 38 (1988), 9-19.

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★ The Grand Princes of Vladimir (in Russian)

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