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Vasilisa Melentyeva ( Russian: Васили́са Меле́нтьева) was the legendary or real sixth wife of Ivan the Terrible. The marriage (not authorized by the Church) may have been celebrated in 1575 or she was simply a concubine. Modern scholars now tend to consider her to be a 19th-century fraud.
- Anastasia Romanovna (1547-1560) Poisoned or succumbed to illness. Anastasia Romanovna was brought to the Kremlin for Ivan's inspection along with as many as 1500 other potential brides.
- Maria Temryukovna (1561-1569) Poisoned. After the death of his first wife, Ivan was presented with the daughter of a Muslim prince, Maria Temryukovna. According to folklore, Ivan was warned by his first wife (when she was ill) not to marry a pagan, but he was so taken by Maria's beauty that he married her in 1561.
- Marfa Sobakina (1571) Poisoned. Ivan initiated another exhaustive selection process to find his third wife. Marfa Sobakina was chosen from 12 finalists to become Tsaritsa of Russia.
- Anna Koltovskaya (1572-1574) Imprisoned. It was illegal and impious for Ivan to marry a fourth time, but he claimed to have not consummated his previous marriage.
Jan 22, 2024 · Vasilisa Melentyeva, considered by some as a legend, faced a tumultuous marriage but possibly escaped to obscurity. Maria Dolgorukaya, the seventh wife, faced a grim fate for alleged infidelity. The eighth and final wife, Maria Nagaya, gave birth to Ivan's sought-after heir, Dmitry, whose tragic demise further tainted Ivan's legacy.
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Vasilisa Melentyeva ( Russian: Васили́са Меле́нтьева) was the legendary or real sixth wife of Ivan the Terrible. The marriage (not authorized by the Church) may have been celebrated in 1575 or she was simply a concubine. Modern scholars now tend to consider her to be a 19th-century fraud.
Aug 8, 2018 · Some versions of the story say Vasilisa Melentyeva might have actually been one of Ivan’s concubines. Vasilisa Melentyeva, portrait by Nikolai Nevrev in 1886. Maria Dolgorukaya is the name of Ivan’s seventh wife, but she also might be fictional.
Jan 25, 2023 · The details of Ivan’s supposed last three marriages are disputed, particularly those of his alleged sixth and seventh wives, Vasilisa Melentyeva and Maria Dolgorukaya, both of whom are associated briefly with Ivan around 1579 and 1580.
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Jun 23, 2017 · In 1579, Ivan married his most famous wife, Vasilisa Melentyeva, the widow of Prince Melentiy Ivanov. She wasn’t famous because she broke the “spell” of the Tsar’s bad luck with marriages but rather because she made things worse.
