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Anastasia and Ivan's marriage took place on 3 February 1547, at the Cathedral of the Annunciation. She gave birth to a total of six children: Anna, Maria, Dmitry, Ivan, Eudoxia, and Feodor. It is widely believed that Anastasia had a moderating influence on Ivan's volatile character. Ivan adored Anastasia and never thought to be with any woman ...
Ivan's father, Nikita Romanovich Zakharyin, was the brother of Tsarina Anastasia Romanovna, first wife of Tsar Ivan the terrible. He was one of the closest advisors of that Tsar, and later served for two years as regent for his underage nephew Feodor I. The family was therefore politically influential and very affluent; Nikita Romanov was one ...
Ivan's reign was characterised by Russia's transformation from a medieval state to a fledgling empire, but at an immense cost to its people and long-term economy. Ivan IV was the eldest son of Vasili III by his second wife Elena Glinskaya, and a grandson of Ivan III. He succeeded his father after his death, when he was three years old.
Ivan Ivanovich (Russian: Иван Иванович; 28 March 1554 – 19 November 1581) was the second son of Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible by his first wife Anastasia Romanovna. He was the tsarevich ( heir apparent ) until he suddenly died; historians generally believe that his father killed him in a fit of rage.
Anastasia Kazanskaya (died 1540), granddaughter of Ivan III of Moscow from his daughter Eudokia, and wife of Prince Feodor Mikhailovich Mstislavsky and Prince Vasili Vasilievich Shuisky Anastasia Romanovna Zakharyina-Yurieva (1530–1560), daughter of Roman Yurievich Zakharyin-Yuriev and first wife of Ivan IV of Russia
Ivan took a promise of allegiance from Novgorod, but left its system of government in place. [16] For the next six years, pro-Moscow and anti-Moscow factions in Novgorod competed with one another. [46] Ivan visited Novgorod several times during this period, persecuting a number of pro-Lithuanian boyars and confiscating their lands.
The family fortunes soared when Roman's daughter, Anastasia Zakharyina, married Ivan IV ("the Terrible") on 3 (13) February 1547. [7] Since her husband had assumed the title of Tsar of all Russia , which derives from the title " Caesar ", on 16 January 1547, she was crowned as the first tsaritsa of Russia.
Feodor was born on 31 May 1557 in Moscow, the third son of Ivan the Terrible by his first wife Anastasia Romanovna. [2] [3] He was baptized at the Chudov Monastery and his godfather was Macarius, the metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church. [2]