Feodor I of Russia
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Feodor I Ioannovich or Fyodor I Ivanovich, nicknamed the Blessed, was Tsar of all Russia from 1584 until his death in 1598.
Forensic facial reconstruction by Mikhail Gerasimov, 1963
Coronation order of Feodor, 1584
Feodor Ioannovich presents a golden chain to Boris Godunov by Aleksey Kivshenko
Depiction of Feodor on the Tsar Cannon
Boris Godunov
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Boris Feodorovich Godunov 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. After the end of Feodor's
Feodor I of Russia
…disposition and possibly suffered from mental disability. He took little interest in politics, and the country was effectively administered in his name by Boris Godunov, the brother of his beloved wife Irina. He died without surviving children and was succeeded by Godunov as tsar, marking the end of the rule of the…
Portrait in the Tsarsky titulyarnik (1672)
Godunov's estate near Moscow
Tsar Boris in a 1630 miniature
Godunov Mausoleum in front of the Cathedral of the Assumption at the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius