In 1503, unsuccessfully, he and his mother, attempted to return the Ryazanian lands passed to Moscow by Prince Fyodor, his uncle.
[1] In 1507, Vasily III, attempted to reinforce Ryazanian lands in his authority; he appointed a number of officials to Ryazan.
[1] In 1509 Vasily III appointed a viceroy to Perevitsk, while the local boyars entered service to the Duke of Moscow.
[1] In summer 1521, during the unrest caused by an invasion of the Crimean Khan, Mehmed I Giray, Prince Ivan Ivanovich escaped from Moscow to Pereyaslavl of Ryazan.
[1] Upon his death his Lithuanian estate passed to his first cousin through his mother, Prince Semyon Fyodorovich Belsky, a refugee from Moscow.