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Vasily the First rules Muscovy until 1425, keeping up the family tradition of gathering the lands of others whenever possible.
瓦西里一世治理莫斯科到1425年，一直堅持盡可能的征集土地的家庭傳統
Meanwhile in southern Russia, the Golden Hoard was all but polished off by the Mongol conqueror Timurlame or Timur the Lame.
同時在俄羅斯南部，金帳汗國幾乎被蒙古征服者跛子帖木兒打敗
Yet the Muscovites were not themselves immune from civil war.
但是莫斯科公國人民并沒有免于內戰
Vasily the First was seceeded in 1425 by his ten year old son Vasily the Second
瓦西里一世在1425年傳位給他十歲的兒子瓦西里二世
who was forced by his uncle and cousins into a long, bitter civil war.
卻被他叔叔和堂兄逼得無法，而卷入了漫長痛苦的內戰
It took young Vasily the Second 25 years to establish power.
年輕的瓦西里二世花了25年才確立了政權
In the meantime, he had been captured once by the Mongols and blinded by one of his cousins!
同時他曾被蒙古人捕獲，并被堂兄弄瞎了眼睛
In 1453, the Byzantine Empire fell and the Patriarch of Constantinople gave his blessing to Metropolitan Jonah of Moscow,
1453年，拜占庭帝國衰落，君士坦丁堡大主教為約拿城祈禱
acknowledging that the Russian Orthodox Church was now entirely independent.
承認俄羅斯東正教完全獨立
The fall of Constantinople in 1453, also created the notion that Moscow was destined to be the Third Rome after Rome herself and Constantinople.
君士坦丁堡1453年衰落，也表明了莫斯科注定成為羅馬和君士坦丁堡之后的第三個羅馬
In 1462 Vasily the Second's son Ivan the Third came to the throne hoping to add to what his father had left him.
1462年，瓦斯利二世的兒子伊凡三世繼承皇位，希望壯大他父親留下的基業
