Background
This article incorporates material from the public domain 1906 Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
This article incorporates material from the public domain 1906 Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
Since 1519, his appanages included Volokolamsk and Staritsa. Their only child, Vladimir, was born later that year. Next month, however, Vasily died.
After 40 days of mourning, Andrey applied to his widow Elena Glinskaya for extension of his demesnes.
Elena denied him that favour and Andrey departed for Staritsa in anger. There he heard that his only living brother, Yury Ivanovich, had been taken to prison and died there.
lieutenant is only natural that he declined Elena"s emphatic invitations to visit Moscow and lived in Staritsa in seclusion for three following years. He built there a fine cathedral, which still stands.
In 1537, however, it was rumoured that Andrey was going to escape to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Upon hearing the news, Elena closed the Lithuanian border and dispatched her minion, Prince Obolensky, to seize him. Andrey escaped to Novgorod, where he persuaded local nobility to join his cause. Reluctant to appeal to arms, however, he surrendered to the mercy of Obolensky.
At Moscow, he was tried and thrown into prison with all his family.
