Muscovite cat will take its time and eat the mouse when and how it pleases". Final years In 1501, armies of Pskov and Moscow were defeated in the Battle of the Siritsa River by the Livonian Order, but the city withstood a subsequent siege. In 1510, Grand Prince of Moscow Vasili III arrived in Pskov and pronounced it his votchina, thus putting an end to the Pskov Republic and its autonomous rights. The city's ruling body, the veche, was dissolved and some 300 families of rich Pskovians were deported from the city. Their estates were distributed among the Muscovite service class people. From that time on, the city of Pskov and the lands around it continued to develop as a part of the centralized Russian state, preserving some of its economic and cultural traditions. Princes of Pskov 1342–1349 Andrei of Polotsk (Gedeminids) 1349–1360 Eustaphy Feodorovich (Prince of Izborsk) 1360–1369 Alexander of Polotsk 1375–1377 Matvei 1377–1399 Andrei of Polotsk 1386–1394 Ivan Andreyevich 1399–1510 viceroys of the Grand Duchy of Moscow References Sources Масленникова Н. Н. Присоединения Пскова к Русскому централизованному государству. Leningrad, 1955. Further reading The Chronicles of Pskov, vol. 1–2. Moscow–Leningrad, 1941–55. Валеров А. В. Новгород и Псков: Очерки политической истории Северо-Западной Руси XI—XIV вв. Moscow: Aleteia, 2004. . Former principalities Former republics Former Slavic countries History of Pskov History of the Rus' people Russian city-states States and territories disestablished in the 1230s States and territories established in 1348 Trading posts of the Hanseatic League