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Ivan III (the Great) freed Russia from Tartar control, thereby allowing the money previously paid to the Tartars to be redirected into expansion and building.
Ivan III Vasilevich was called Ivan the Great because he tripled the territory of his state, renovated the Kremlin in Moscow, laid the foundations of the Russian State that became a huge Empire, and was had one of the longest reign of any Russian ruler, 43 years.