Maria Dolgorukaya

Born: circa 1560
Died: 1573

Maria Dolgorukaya was the fifth wife of Ivan the Terrible. She was born circa 1560 and married Ivan IV in November 1573. The marriage only lasted one day. In November 1573, Maria was pushed through a hole in a frozen river for “falling in love with a man before her marriage and not telling the tsar.”

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