Time of Troubles
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The Time of Troubles, also known as Smuta, was a period of political crisis in Russia which began in 1598 with the death of Feodor I, the last of the House of Rurik, and ended in 1613 with the accessi
Konstantin Makovsky's Appeal of Minin (1896) depicts Kuzma Minin against the background of the church of St. John the Baptist appealing to the people of Nizhny Novgorod to raise a militia against the Polish invaders and Sigismund III Vasa.
Ilya Repin's Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1885), depicting the accidental killing of Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich by his father Ivan the Terrible; it made Feodor I heir to the Russian throne.
Palace in Uglich, where Tsarevich Dmitry lived and died
Sergey Ivanov's In the Time of Troubles (1886)
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.
Time of Troubles
…Smutnoye vremya), also known as Smuta (Russian: Смута, lit. 'troubles'), was a period of political crisis in Russia which began in 1598 with the death of Feodor I, the last of the House of Rurik, and ended in 1613 with the accession of Michael I of the House of Romanov at the 1613 Zemsky Sobor. It was a period…
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