Yaroslav Valazakov

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Who is Yaroslav Valazakov?

Yaroslav Valazakov, known in English as Jason of Constantinople, was a Muscovite emissary to the Byzantine Empire, and later an administrator in the imperial bureaucracy. He fled the conquest of the City in 1453, and accompanied Sophia Palaiologina, niece of the last Byzantine Emperor, Constantine XI, to the court of Ivan III of Russia. There he helped bring Byzantine imperial traditions to the nascent Muscovite empire.

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on July 23, 2013

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