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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 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. A group of reformers united around the young Ivan, crowning him as tsar in 1547 at the age of 16.
Ivan Ivanovich 1349–c. 1350, uncle XX Simeonovich c. 1350–1353, brother Ivan Ivanovich: Heir presumptive: brother: 1353: death of Grand Prince's sons: 27 April 1353: became Grand Prince: Dmitry Ivanovich 1353, son Dmitry Ivanovich: Heir apparent: eldest son: 27 April 1353: father became Grand Prince: 13 November 1359: became Grand Prince ...
The marriage took place after the marriage negotiations between Ivan and Catherine Jagiellon stranded. Ivan soon came to regret the decision to marry her, on account of his new wife being viewed as illiterate and vindictive. She never fully integrated to the Muscovite way of life, and was considered a poor stepmother to Ivan's two sons Ivan and ...
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.
After the sudden death of his third wife Marfa Sobakina on 13 November 1571, Ivan had difficulty in securing another marriage, due to the laws of the Russian Orthodox Church prohibiting fourth marriages; "The first marriage is law; the second an extraordinary concession; the third is a violation of the law; the fourth is an impiety, a state similar to that of animals."
Maria Feodorovna's uncle, Afanasy Nagoy , was the Russian ambassador to the Crimean Khanate and a close confidant of Tsar Ivan IV. This probably contributed to Ivan's decision to marry Maria Feodorovna. They wed in 1580. Ivan had had five confirmed wives before, as well as a possible sixth and seventh (whose existence is disputed).