Not all rulers manage to take a place in history. Will descendants remember the sovereigns of our time or will they forget how we forgot about these seven Russian tsars?
Simeon Bekbulatovich
A descendant of Genghis Khan, the Kasimov khan Sain-Bulat went to the service of the Russian Tsar John IV and was baptized under the name of Simeon. In 1575, John abdicated the throne and crowned Simeon Bekbulatovich as king. Within 11 months the country was divided into the possessions of the Grand Duke of All Russia and the inheritance of John. Simeon signed decrees, sat in the boyar duma, but Grozny remained the de facto leader of the country. Soon the tsar, in modern terms, "went for a second term", again became not only the actual, but also the formal leader of the country, and granted the former khan the title of Grand Duke of Tver. And Simeon ended his days as a schema in the Simonov monastery.
Fedor II
Fyodor II is a representative of the second of the three dynasties of Russian tsars, the Godunov dynasty. The son of Boris Godunov was an intelligent and educated young man. From an early age he participated in state politics.
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The first Russian to draw up a map of his native lands. And, perhaps, he would have become an outstanding king, had he not been killed by the supporters of False Dmitry.
False Dmitry I
False Dmitry I himself is a controversial figure in history. Historians differ in its origins. Some adhere to the point of view of Karamzin and Pushkin and consider him a fugitive monk Grishka Otrepiev. Others are a Wallachian or Italian monk. Still others are Jewish. The fourth is the illegitimate son of the former Polish king Stefan Batory. Some believe that this man, indeed, could have been Tsarevich Dmitry, the son of Ivan the Terrible. But whoever he was, there were rumors among the people about his imposture, and the boyars did not like him. False Dmitry himself only added fuel to the fire, mocking Moscow customs. In the end, there was a conspiracy against him. The tsar, without having sat for a year on the throne, was killed. They abused his body, and, having buried it, soon dug it up and burned it. The ashes were mixed with gunpowder and fired from a cannon in the direction of Poland, where the impostor came from.
Vasily Shuisky
False Dmitry, who came to power in 1605 after the assassination of Fyodor Godunov, was himself killed in 1606. A group of boyars elected Vasily Ivanovich Shuisky, a descendant of the Rurikovichs, to the kingdom. Shuisky spent four years of his reign suppressing uprisings and fighting other contenders for the throne. In the end, he was captured by Polish troops, taken to the court of the king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and died in captivity.
Vladislav IV
However, this measure did not save Moscow and the whole country from the invasion of the Poles. Shuisky, who ascended the throne after False Dmitry, ceded him to Vladislav Vasa, the future king of Poland. The boyars themselves chose Vladislav as Tsar. But the Polish prince was never crowned king: the people's militia led by Minin and Pozharsky drove the Poles out of the country, and the first of the Romanov family, Mikhail Fedorovich, ascended the throne. And Vladislav, who inherited the title of King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania in 1632, retained the title of Russian Tsar until 1634.
Fedor III
Fyodor III, who suffered from scurvy and died for twenty years, is better known as a disciple of Simeon of Polotsk and the elder brother of Peter the Great. However, he ruled for six years and managed to implement a number of important reforms. He created the first printing school in Russia.
Under the influence of the first wife of the tsar, the Polish Agafya Grushevskaya, the court life changed significantly: young boyars began to shave their beards, and it was forbidden to appear at court in traditional ohabnya and uniforms.
But it was with him that Archpriest Avvakum was burned.