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Anna Koltovskaya
Read more...Anna Koltovskaya was the fourth wife of Ivan the Terrible. She was born before 1572 in the family of Alexei Koltovsky. She married Ivan IV on 29 April 1572. After living together for less than a year...
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Martha Sobakina
Read more...Martha Sobakina was the third wife of Ivan the Terrible. After the death of his second wife in 1569, the tsar ordered 1,500 girls to be brought to Moscow from all over Russia and assembled before him...
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Maria Temryukovna
Read more...Maria Temryukovna was the second wife of Ivan the Terrible. She was born in the family of Muslim prince Temrjuk of Kabardia circa 1545. After converting to Christianity on 20 July 1561, she changed h...
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Anastasia Zakharina-Yurieva
Read more...Anastasia Zakharina-Yurieva was the first wife of Ivan the Terrible. She was born in 1530 in the family of courtier Roman Yuryevich Zakharin-Koshkin and Ulyana Karpova. She married Ivan IV on 3 Febru...
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Prince Dmitry the Grandson
Read more...Prince Dmitry the Grandson was the son of Prince Ivan the Young and Princess Helen of Moldavia. He was born on 10 October 1483 and crowned grand prince in the cap of Monomachus at the Dormition Cathe...
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Sophia Palaiologina
Read more...Sophia Palaiologina was the daughter of Thomas Palaiologos (Despot of Morea) and Princess Catherine Zaccaria of Achaea. She was also a niece of the last Byzantine emperor Constantine XI. She married ...
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Princess Maria of Tver
Read more...Princess Maria of Tver was the daughter of Grand Prince Boris of Tver and his second wife Anastasia. She was born in 1442. She married Grand Prince Ivan III when he was twelve and she was ten. Died o...
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Princess Eudoxia of Moscow
Read more...Princess Eudoxia of Moscow was the eighth child and third daughter of Ivan III and Sophia Palaiologina. She was born in 1492 and married a Tatar prince who converted to Christianity and took the name...
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Princess Feodosia of Moscow
Read more...Princess Feodosia of Moscow was the seventh child and second daughter of Ivan III and Sophia Palaiologina. She was born on 29 May 1485 and married Prince Vasily Danilovich of Kholm in 1500. She died ...
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Princess Elena of Moscow
Read more...Princess Elena of Moscow was the first sixth and first daughter of Ivan III and Sophia Palaiologina. She was the third child of Ivan III and Sophia Palaiologina to be given this name after the couple...
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