Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia
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| Tsarevich of Russia | |
The wounded Ivan being cradled by his father in Ivan the Terrible killing his son by Ilya Repin (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).
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| Born | 28 March 1554 |
| Died | 19 November 1581 (aged 27) Alexandrov |
| Spouse | Eudoxia Saburova Praskovia Solova Yelena Sheremeteva |
| Dynasty | Rurik |
| Father | Ivan IV |
| Mother | Anastasia Romanovna |
| Religion | Eastern Orthodox |
Ivan Ivanovich (Ива́н Иванович) (28 March 1554 – 19 November 1581) of the House of Rurik, was Tsarevich (heir apparent) of the Russia. He was the second son of Ivan the Terrible, who eventually killed him.
Ivan was the second son of Ivan the Terrible by his first wife Anastasia Romanovna. His younger brother was Feodor I. The young Ivan apparently accompanied his father during the Massacre of Novgorod at the age of 15. For five weeks, he and his father would watch the Oprichniks with enthusiasm and retire to church for prayer. At age 27, Ivan was at least as well read as his father, and in his free time, wrote a biography on Antony of Siya. Ivan is reputed to have once saved his father from an assassination attempt. A Livonian prisoner named Bykovski raised a sword against the Tsar, only to be rapidly stabbed by the Tsarevich.
In 1566, it was suggested that the 12-year-old Ivan marry Virginia Eriksdotter, daughter of King Eric XIV of Sweden, but this did not come about. At the age of seventeen, Ivan was betrothed to Eudoxia Saburova, who had previously been proposed as a bride for Tsar Ivan. Indeed, she had been one of twelve women paraded before the Tsar for him to make a choice. The Tsar had rejected Eudoxia as a bride for himself but she was later married to the Tsar's son. The Tsar wanted his daughter-in-law to produce an heir very quickly, and this did not happen, so the Tsar banished her to a convent and got his son another bride. This second wife was Praskovia Solova, who quickly met with the same fate as her predecessor, and was also put away into a convent. The Tsar then got his son a third wife, Yelena Sheremeteva, who was found to be pregnant in October of 1581. That child was presumably miscarried around the time when Ivan died by his father's hand in November 1581.
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