The Russian people have always grieved at the death of the monarch and expected the end of the world after the “tsarist” death.
The death of the tsar in folk culture always contained a double bottom: the shepherd of the Russian people could not die “just like that” (in a dream, from illness, from old age). "They probably helped him."
However, some monarchs did die under very suspicious circumstances.
Ivan Young
Many historians believe that it was after the death of Ivan Molodoy, co-ruler of his father, Ivan III, that a breakdown in Russian history began. The people idolized this young monarch: it was he who became the prototype for the protagonist of Russian fairy tales - Ivan Tsarevich. It was Ivan the Young who led the Russian regiments during the famous stand on the Ugra River, after which we finally threw off the Horde yoke. It seemed that Russia was waiting for a golden age, but suddenly, thirty-two years old, Ivan Molodoy fell seriously ill. He was overcome by kamchyuga, that is, leg aches, a symptom common in medicine. For the treatment of the national hero, a physician from Venice, Leon Zhidovin, was called. The doctor promised to cure the prince, put him in hot cans, gave him some kind of medicine, but Ivan only got worse and, in the end, he died. Ivan III did not forgive the doctor for the death of his son,ordering the execution of Zhidovin forty days later.
However, there is also an alternative version of the death of the young heir. So, the fugitive Prince Andrei Kurbsky, the main opponent of Ivan the Terrible, who was the nephew of Ivan Molodoy, called his stepmother Sophia Paleologue guilty of the death of the popular favorite, who sought to put her son, Vasily Ivanovich, on the Russian throne. By the way, it is possible that Ivan III himself took part in the conspiracy against his own son.
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Ivan groznyj
The following is known about the last day of the life of Ivan the Terrible. First, the sovereign asks to submit a will and read it to him. Later he goes to the bathhouse, where he steams for at least three hours. Such a long stay in the steam room was explained by Grozny's need to alleviate his own suffering. After that, the tsar expresses a desire to play chess with the boyar Belsky. Until he arrived, Ivan the Terrible arranges the pieces with his own hand, but suddenly falls to the floor, holding the chess king tightly in his hand. After a couple of minutes he was gone.
According to rumors circulating among the people, the cause of the death of the sovereign was poisoning, which was staged by people from his close circle - Godunov and Belsky. Already in the 20th century, Soviet scientists exhumed the tsar's remains and discovered an increased content of mercury in them.
Boris Godunov
On the day of his death, the sovereign looked healthy and cheerful, and ate a lot with great appetite. Then he wished to climb the tower, from which a panorama of Moscow was opened. But almost immediately left her, complaining that he was not feeling well. A doctor was summoned to Boris Godunov, but he could no longer help in any way: blood began to flow from his nose and ears, which they could not stop. The king lost consciousness and then died.
According to rumors, Godunov poisoned himself, being in a fit of despair. Another version said that he was poisoned by political opponents.
Peter II
At first glance, Peter II, the last of the Romanov dynasty in the male line, died a natural death after contracting smallpox. So, upon returning home from the parade, the young ruler begins to feel fever. At night, when the fever never subsided, Peter dies. But murder under the guise of natural death was far from uncommon in those days. So, as reported by the historian of medicine Richter, Prince Sergei Petrovich Dolgorukov, whose children were sick with smallpox, did not stop coming to the palace, although it was forbidden, since Peter II Alekseevich did not have this ailment in childhood. There is no direct evidence that the sovereign contracted the fatal illness from Dolgoruky's children, but the version turned out to be the most probable of all.
Peter III
Until now, the exact circumstances of the death of the king have not been clarified. According to the official version, the immediate cause of the death of Peter III was a sudden attack of hemorrhoidal colic, aggravated by alcohol consumption. During the autopsy, which Catherine II, the wife of the unfortunate tsar, ordered to do, the sovereign was diagnosed with intestinal inflammation, heart dysfunction, and signs of a stroke.
But there was another version, according to which Alexei Orlov, the favorite of Catherine II, was called the killer of Peter III Fedorovich. Indirect evidence can be found in Orlov's letters to his beloved empress.
John VI Antonovich
The official cause of death of Ivan VI Antonovich, the deposed Russian emperor, was his death while trying to escape from captivity. But did Ivan really try to escape?
And everything happened as follows. Initially, rumors about the alleged madness of Ivan Antonovich began to spread in Russia. The prison staff, in turn, were forbidden to talk to the prisoner so that he would really lose his mind due to loneliness. But Ivan VI remained sane. Therefore, Catherine II orders the guards to provoke an attempt to escape, and then kill the true heir to the throne. Two years later, when Ivan was not yet 24 years old, he was killed by the guards of the fortress.
Alexander I
According to the official version, Alexander I died due to fever, which was accompanied by brain inflammation.
But there is an alternative version of the events taking place, according to which the death of the sovereign was staged. So, supposedly, the earlier deceased courier Maskov, who was very similar to Alexander I, was put in the coffin, and the tsar himself left to wander around Russia under the name of Elder Fyodor Kuzmich.