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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 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. [3]
Elena Vasilyevna Glinskaya (Russian: Елена Васильевна Глинская; c. 1510 – 4 April 1538) was the grand princess consort of Moscow as the second wife of Vasili III of Russia, and de facto regent of Russia from 1533 until her death in 1538. She was the mother of the first crowned tsar Ivan IV. [1] [2]
Marfa Vasilyevna Sobakina (Russian: Марфа Васильевна Собакина; 1552 – 13 November 1571) was the tsaritsa of Russia as the third wife of Ivan the Terrible, the tsar of all Russia, from October 1571 until her death the next month.
Ivan the Terrible meditating at the deathbed of his son by Vyacheslav Schwarz (1861) Ivan was the second son of Ivan IV of Russia ("the Terrible") by his first wife Anastasia Romanovna. His brother was Feodor, who would eventually succeed his father as tsar. The young Ivan accompanied his father during the Massacre of Novgorod at the age
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Dmitry was born as the third child and first son of Ivan IV of Russia ("the Terrible") by his first wife, Anastasia Romanovna. Throughout the first four years of their marriage, Anastasia presented Ivan with two daughters, Anna and Maria. Both died in infancy, Anna at the age of eleven months and Maria before her sixth month.
In 1533, she married Andrey of Staritsa, [1] [2] the younger brother of Vasili III, who gave permission for them to marry. [3] She was described as ambitious and forceful. She wished for the Staritsky family to influence the regency of Ivan IV, and orchestrated a plot to depose the regent Elena Glinskaya, Ivan's mother.