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Maria Dolgorukaya

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nameMaria Dolgorukaya
imageTsar Ivan the Terrible sentences his fourth wife Maria Dolgoruky to death.jpg
captionIvan the Terrible announces to his seventh wife Maria Dolgorukaya her imminent death
successionTsaritsa of All Russia
(Disputed existence)
reign1580
predecessorVasilisa Melentyeva
(Disputed existence)
successorMaria Nagaya
death_date1580
houseRurik (by marriage)
house-typeDynasty
spouseIvan the Terrible
religionEastern Orthodox

(Disputed existence) (Disputed existence) | house-type = Dynasty Maria Dolgorukaya (died 1580) possibly was the seventh wife of Ivan the Terrible, Tsar of Russia. The marriage (unauthorized by the church) may have been celebrated in 1580.

Legend says she did not bear the Tsar any children and was revealed to have a lover after their first night together, when the Tsar discovered she was not a virgin. Ivan subsequently had her drowned.

There is no evidence of her existence in primary sources. The first mention can be found in 19th-century Russian literature. Nikolay Kostomarov in 1866 wrote that the notice about her was found by Afanasiy Byichkov in a manuscript in the Imperial Public Library.

Modern historians now have doubts about whether she existed.

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References

  1. Сперанский М. Н. Русские подделки рукописей в начале XIX в. — ПИ, 1956, т. V, с. 100
  2. Н. И. Костомаров, «Смутное время Московского государства в начале XVII столетия 1604—1613» // Вестник Европы, 1866
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