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Maria married Ivan in 1581 and a year later, she gave birth to their son Dmitry. In 1582, the tsar suggested to queen Elizabeth I of England that he would marry her relative Mary Hastings and divorce his wife Maria Nagaya, but these plans never came to fruition.
- Anastasia Zakharyina-Yurieva. History books mention the first wife of Ivan the Terrible as possessing attractive looks and combining all virtues of the 16th century in herself – chastity, modesty and piety.
- Maria Temryukovna. Ivan the Terrible’s second wife was Circassian princess Maria Temryukovna. She was the daughter of Kabardian prince Temryuk; before the marriage, she was called Kucheney.
- Marfa Sobakina. The tsar’s third marriage was his shortest. The tsar had decided that he ought to have had more heirs, so he arranged a bride show two years after the death of his previous spouse.
- Anna Koltovskaya. The laws of the 16th century didn’t allow having more than three marriages in one’s lifetime. Nonetheless, after the death of Marfa, Ivan the Terrible managed to persuade the Church to hold a fourth marriage.
Aug 8, 2018 · Maria Dolgorukaya is the name of Ivan’s seventh wife, but she also might be fictional. Ivan allegedly married Dolgorukaya, a far-flung descendant of Yuri Dolgorukiy, the prince credited with founding the city of Moscow, in 1580. She was caught in an act of infidelity and punished with drowning.
Dec 19, 2021 · He married Maria Nagaya in 1581 when he was 51 years old. The two didn’t like each other, and Ivan even began planning to divorce her. Luckily for her, she would be spared, as she became pregnant, and gave birth to a son, Dmitry.
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Tsar Ivan IV of Russia had many wives or "tsaritsas" during his reign, but it would be premature to blame him for the execution or divorce of those he replaced. Indeed, the fate of Ivan Vasilyevich's eight wives often had little to do with his fearsome nickname. When Ivan ruled Russia (1547-1584), terriblewas a direct translation of the Russian wor...
Ivan was married eight times during his 37-year reign as Tsar. Of the seven wives he replaced, two cheated on him (one executed, one imprisoned), three died from illness or poison, one was infertile but was allowed to live a long life, and one was imprisoned and murdered for unknown reasons. Ivan certainly had his seventh wife executed for adultery...
Pushkareva, N. (1997). Women in Russian History: From the Tenth to the Twentieth Century. M. E. Sharpe, Inc.de Madariaga, I. (2005). Ivan the Terrible: First Tsar of Russia. Yale University Press.Troyat, H. (1982). Ivan the Terrible(translated by Joan Pinkham, 2001). Phoenix.Susan Laskowskaon September 19, 2018: Thank you for the interesting article! I’ve been doing research and building my family tree. I usually look at Eastern European artwork in between data entry input as a way to break free from The Peerage. Even in death they are still very loud and bold! Al Freemanon August 28, 2018: To all the stupid comments b...
She married Ivan IV in September 1580 and gave birth to a son called Dmitry on 19 October 1582. Not long before he died in 1584, Ivan divorced Maria in order to marry Lady Mary Hastings, a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth of England.
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Maria Nagaya (born around 1612), also known as Marfa during her time as a nun (since 1592), was the last wife of Ivan IV. She was the daughter of the courtier Fedor Fedorovich Nagoy and a Moscow noblewoman.
