Anna of Moscow (1393–1417)

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Anna of Moscow (1393–1417)

Russian royal. Born in 1393; died of the plague in 1417; daughter of Basil I, prince of Moscow, and Sophie of Lithuania (b. 1370); became first wife of John VIII Paleologus (1391–1448), emperor of Nicaea (r. 1425–1448), in 1411.

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