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Zoe Palaiologina, whose name was later changed to Sophia Palaiologina (; ca. 1449 – 7 April 1503), was a Byzantine princess, member of the Imperial Palaiologos family, and Grand Princess of Moscow as the second wife of Grand Prince Ivan III. Through her eldest son, Vasili III, she was the grandmother of Ivan the Terrible, the first Tsar of All Russia.