Collector of Russian land(s) (russian: собиратель русской земли, sobiratel russkoi zemli) is a historical concept and study of expansion policy of the

Grand Duchy of Muscovy The Grand Duchy of Moscow, Muscovite Russia, Muscovite Rus' or Grand Principality of Moscow (russian: Великое княжество Московское, Velikoye knyazhestvo Moskovskoye; also known in English simply as Muscovy from the Lat ...

and the

Grand Duchy of Lithuania The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a European state that existed from the 13th century to 1795, when the territory was partitioned among the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Habsburg Empire of Austria. The state was founded by Li ...

. The term could be found in works of several historians such as Dmitry Ilovaysky ("History of Ruthenia: Muscovy-Lithuanian period or Collectors of Russia (Rus)"),

Kazimierz Waliszewski Kazimierz Klemens Waliszewski (1849–1935) was a Polish author of history who wrote primarily about Russian history. He studied in Warsaw and Paris. Background Waliszewski was born in Gole, in Congress Poland. He wrote detailed, scholarly wor ...

("First Romanovs", "Ivan Grozny") and many others. In the historical studies of Russia the concept justifies the liquidation of political (

feudal Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was the combination of the legal, economic, military, cultural and political customs that flourished in Middle Ages, medieval Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a wa ...

) fragmentation in post

Golden Horde The Golden Horde, self-designated as Ulug Ulus, 'Great State' in Turkic, was originally a Mongols, Mongol and later Turkicized khanate established in the 13th century and originating as the northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire. With the fr ...

period.''Unification of Russian lands around Moscow
"Patriotic History". Ryazan: "Ryazan State University of Yesenin"

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{{Russian nationalism Grand Duchy of Moscow History of Lithuania (1219–1569) Russian nationalism

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