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Feodor died childless, marking the end of the Rurik dynasty and the start of a succession crisis during a period known as the Time of Troubles. [95] The first non-Rurikid tsar was Feodor's brother-in-law and regent, the influent boyar Boris Godunov , elected by the Zemsky Sobor (feudal parliament).
Little Russia, [a] also known as Lesser Russia, Malorussia, or Little Rus', [b] is a geographical and historical term used to describe Ukraine. [2] At the beginning of the 14th century, the patriarch of Constantinople accepted the distinction between what it called the eparchies of Megalē Rosiia (lit. ' Great Rus, Great Russia ') and Mikrà ...
Tsar of Russia r. 1598–1605: Maria Skuratova Belskaya d. 1605: Irina Godunova 1557–1603: Feodor I 1557–1598 Tsar of All Russia r. 1584–1598: Dmitry of Russia 1552–1553: Ivan of Russia 1554–1581: Dmitry of Uglich 1582—1591 or 1582–1606: Vasili IV Tsar of Russia 1552–1612 r. 1606–1610: Michael I 1596–1645 Tsar of All Russia ...
The Belosselsky-Belozersky family was forced to flee to the West during the 1917 revolution, leaving no one in Russia. Prince Konstantin (1847–1920) and his wife Nadezhda Dimitrievna (died 1920; née Skobeleva; sister of General Mikhail Skobelev [1] [2]) had three daughters and two sons. The Russian Revolution split the family and their lives ...
This is a list of princely families of Russia (Russian Empire) The list includes: families of «natural» Russian princely stock - descended from old Russian dynasties (Rurik Dynasty) and Lithuania (Gediminovich and others); families, whose princely titles were granted by Russian Emperors; foreign princely families naturalised in Russia;
In April 1918, the Romanovs were moved to the Russian town of Yekaterinburg, in the Urals, where they were placed in the Ipatiev House. Here, on the night of 16–17 July 1918, the entire Russian Imperial Romanov family, along with several of their retainers, were executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries, most likely on the orders of Vladimir Lenin.
This list includes defunct and extant monarchical dynasties of sovereign and non-sovereign statuses at the national and subnational levels. Monarchical polities each ruled by a single family—that is, a dynasty, although not explicitly styled as such, like the Golden Horde and the Qara Qoyunlu—are included.
Boris Feodorovich Godunov (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ d ən ɒ f, ˈ ɡ ʊ d ən ɒ f /; [1] Russian: Борис Фёдорович Годунов; 12 August [O.S. 2 August] 1552 [2] – 23 April [O.S. 13 April] 1605) [3] [4] was the de facto regent of Russia from 1585 to 1598 and then tsar from 1598 to 1605 following the death of Feodor I, the last of the Rurik dynasty.