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Depiction of Feodor on the Tsar Cannon. Feodor was only the nominal ruler: his wife's brother and trusted minister Boris Godunov legitimized himself, after Ivan IV's death, as the de facto regent for the weak and disabled Feodor. [28] [29] [21] As a result, the government was mainly in the hands of the boyars and Feodor's brother-in-law. [30]
Feodor or Fyodor III Alekseyevich (Russian: Фёдор III Алексеевич; [a] 9 June 1661 – 7 May 1682) [1] was Tsar of all Russia from 1676 until his death in 1682. . Despite poor health from childhood, he managed to pass reforms on improving meritocracy within the civil and military state administration as well as founding the Slavic Greek Latin Aca
A group of boyars, unwilling to swear allegiance to the new tsar, seized control of the Kremlin and arrested him. On June 10 or 20, Feodor was strangled in his apartment, together with his mother. Officially, he was declared to have been poisoned, but the Swedish diplomat Peter Petreius stated that the bodies, which had been on public display ...
Boris Feodorovich Godunov (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ d ən ɒ f, ˈ ɡ ʊ d ən ɒ f /; [1] Russian: Борис Фёдорович Годунов; 12 August [O.S. 2 August] 1552 [2] – 23 April [O.S. 13 April] 1605) [3] [4] was the de facto regent of Russia from 1585 to 1598 and then tsar from 1598 to 1605 following the death of Feodor I, the last of the Rurik dynasty.
Feodor died childless, marking the end of the Rurik dynasty and the start of a succession crisis during a period known as the Time of Troubles. [95] The first non-Rurikid tsar was Feodor's brother-in-law and regent, the influent boyar Boris Godunov, elected by the Zemsky Sobor (feudal parliament).
Throughout Feodor's reign (1584–1598), the tsar's brother-in-law, Boris Godunov, and his Romanov cousins contested the de facto rule of Russia. Upon the childless death of Feodor, the 700-year-old line of the Rurik dynasty came to an end, ushering in the Time of Troubles.
Tsar Feodor I was the second adult son of Ivan the Terrible, the first tsar of Russia. Feodor's elder brother, Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich, was the heir apparent; Feodor was never considered a serious candidate for the Russian throne. However, Tsarevich Ivan was allegedly killed in anger by his father on 19 November 1581, making Feodor the new ...
Tsar of Russia r. 1598–1605: Maria Skuratova Belskaya d. 1605: Irina Godunova 1557–1603: Feodor I 1557–1598 Tsar of All Russia r. 1584–1598: Dmitry of Russia 1552–1553: Ivan of Russia 1554–1581: Dmitry of Uglich 1582—1591 or 1582–1606: Vasili IV Tsar of Russia 1552–1612 r. 1606–1610: Michael I 1596–1645 Tsar of All Russia ...