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Ivan IV the Terrible 1530–1584 Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia r. 1533–1547 Tsar of all Russia r. 1547–1584: Maria Nagaya d. c. 1608: Yuri of Uglich 1532–1563: Ivan Shuysky c. 1533 – c. 1573: Philaret 1553–1633 Patriarch of Moscow: Boris Godunov c. 1551 –1605 Tsar of Russia r. 1598–1605: Maria Skuratova Belskaya d. 1605 ...
Ivan IV Vasilyevich (Russian: Иван IV Васильевич; [d] 25 August 1530 – 28 March [O.S. 18 March] 1584), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, [e] was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584. [4]
Ivan IV ("the Terrible") assumed the title of tsar in 1547. Succession was treated in an unorthodox manner under Ivan IV, who, in 1575, formally transferred his powers to Simeon Bekbulatovich, a Tatar prince who had been baptized and given his own principality; [95] Ivan returned to the throne the following year. [95]
Another son, Ivan Vsevolodich, was Prince of Starodub and progenitor of a number of extant lines, most notably the Gagarin line. [ citation needed ] Vsevolod's son Yaroslav II of Vladimir was the father of Alexander Nevsky , whose son Daniel of Moscow sired the ruling house of Moscow until the end of the 16th century; the princes of Moscow are ...
Feodor and his brother were not given a new title by their father, and in August 1581, the papal envoy in Russia, Antonio Possevino, was ordered to be told by the tsar that Russian documents did not need to be written in the name of both the tsar and the tsareviches because "my son Ivan has not yet been honored with the name of sovereign and my ...
Yuri Vasilievich (Юрий Васильевич; 30 October 1532 – 24 June 1563) was the only brother of Ivan the Terrible. He was born deaf , and was thus never considered to be a candidate as heir to the Russian throne.
Ivan Ivanovich was killed by his father in a fit of rage, [6] with the argument ending after the elder Ivan fatally struck his son in the head with his pointed staff. [7] Yelena also suffered a miscarriage within hours of the incident. [5] The event is depicted in the famous painting by Ilya Repin, Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan.
During a severe illness, Ivan asked the boyars to take an oath, making his infant son his heir apparent and the first Tsarevich. [2] However, the boyars were not satisfied, as they wanted to see Ivan's cousin, Vladimir of Staritsa, succeed, [2] but they reluctantly accepted. [2] Historians cannot agree whether this episode occurred in 1552, [2 ...