Ivan III Defies the Horde
1488
The Muscovite grand prince refused the final embassy of the Great Horde, reportedly stamping on the khan's portrait. It was a theatrical break. Russia's rulers would soon be calling themselves autocrats and building the Kremlin in its present form, brick by Italian-engineered brick. His reconstruction of the Moscow Kremlin using Italian architects gave the capital the red-brick fortress silhouette it retains today.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.