Helena Of Moscow
Helena Ivanovna of Moscow (Russian: Елена Ивановна; Lithuanian: Elena; Polish: Helena Moskiewska) (19 May 1476 – 20 January 1513) was an uncrowned Grand Duchess of Lithuania and Queen of Poland as a wife of king of Poland Alexander Jagiellon. Her childless marriage was a constant source of tension between the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which broke out in a series of Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars.
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