The number of celebrity wives is always of interest to the layman - be it a show business star, a politician or a historical figure. In this sense, Ivan the Terrible is a subject of tireless research. Until now, the number of his wives - those who were blighted and who died a natural death - have not been completely counted. Because besides the "official", the sovereign had many concubines. And their fates most often developed as tragic as those of the "legal" halves …
FIRST PANCAKE KOMOM
He was only 17 when he led Anastasia Zakharyin to the crown, a girl from a noble family, one of those who were introduced to the young tsar at the bride show. They lived for 13 years - a record period for Ivan the Terrible. No one else has managed to survive next to him for such a long time. Anastasia died unexpectedly in August 1560, and the inconsolable sovereign was widowed for a whole year, after which she married Maria Temryukovna, daughter of the Prince of Circassian. Oh, and she was a cheerful maiden - indulged in all his whims, arranged noisy orgies even in her chambers - an exceptional case for that time! And all for the sake of love - or rather, in order to bind the king to oneself more strongly. But the general passion for depraved acts did not save the marriage: Ivan Vasilyevich lost interest in her, and in 1569 Maria died - suddenly and mysteriously. They saidthat she paid for her connection with the head of the boyar duma, Fedorov-Chelyadnin, who was killed by a terrible execution right in front of her eyes … But now we do not know whether the beautiful Circassian woman was faithful to the sovereign. One thing is known: very soon the wedding of Ivan the Terrible with Martha Sobakina took place.
This marriage lasted a record short: the new wife lived after the wedding for only two weeks. Apparently, her death made an indelible impression on the tsar - Ivan spent the whole next year in unthinkable debauchery! I rested my soul and … I took my new betrothed 18-year-old Anna Koltovskaya down the aisle. No, the innocent beauty Anna was unable to keep her "experienced" lover for a long time - she bored her husband for a year and spent the next fifty in the monastery, as in prison.
UNLOVE AND UNLOVED
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The next wife of the sovereign, Princess Maria Dolgoruka, was treated and the cruelly unfortunate one was publicly drowned in an ice-hole, accused of premarital love affairs. In general, the king is widowed again …
After a while, missing his family life, Ivan Vasilyevich again went down the aisle. Princess Anna Vasilchikova, who this time became the queen, lived for three months after the wedding and died of a mysterious "chest disease". Then Ivan the Terrible liked the married lady - Vasilisa Melentieva. She was a beautiful woman, and her husband Nikita was treated to a glass of poisoned wine. It was not necessary to observe mourning; Vasilisa appeared in the chambers of the sovereign two days after the funeral.
She was smart, cunning and very experienced in intrigues - she bewitched the aging king like a witch. He fulfilled all her whims and whims. And she removed from the Kremlin all the pretty women - some into exile, some … well, away, in a word. And for two years Vasilisa was the sovereign mistress of the bedroom, and therefore of the royal heart, and therefore of the country …
The queen was let down by an unbridled thirst for love - she started an affair with a handsome young falconer Ivan Kolychev. The sovereign could not stand the insults: in front of the cheater, he tortured her lover to death, then tied Vasilisa to his body and buried him alive …
Then young Natalia Korostova briefly appeared in his chambers - and disappeared without a trace. And the last wife of Ivan was Maria Nagaya.
A beauty from beauties: blue eyes, braids to the floor, slim, stately and smart! For a long time she lay at her father's feet: she did not want to go after the murderer-king. But papa really wanted to live. And the crying girl was taken to the palace.
She cried a lot
Queen Mary pleased the sovereign's eyes with her forms, but she always upset her with a sad look. She took the fashion to suddenly burst into tears, to sit and be sad in her chambers … In a word, she was boring. And this very much annoyed her merry husband. He will arrange such an orgy with her and will arrange an orgy, and issue a decree: so that she may rejoice! And she is not! The relationship grew colder. The tsar began to simply hate her - true, at night sometimes he could not restrain his passion for the cold beauty, from such raids on the bedroom, Tsarevich Dmitry was born. But this did not save the hateful wife from exile: she was locked up in a monastery.
And again drunken orgies began to rustle in the palace. But this was not enough for the tsar: he again wanted to play a wedding. And Ivan the Terrible sent matchmakers to the monarchs abroad: he decided to take over Maria Hastings, Countess of Guntington. However, he liked the niece of the Swedish king no less - matchmakers also went to her. The overseas rulers had already discussed political alliances with Russia, almost playing out the chance they had, but in March 1584 Ivan the Terrible died suddenly.
Inna Shevchenko