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| Tsar Feodor II | |
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| Reign | April, 1605 - July, 1605 |
| Predecessor | Boris Godunov |
| Successor | False Dmitriy I |
| House | Godunov |
| Father | Boris Godunov |
Fyodor II Borisovich Godunov of Russia (Russian: Фёдор II Борисович) (1589 - June 10/July 20, 1605) was a tsarofRussia (1605) during the Time of Troubles. He was born in Moscow, the son and successor to Boris Godunov. His mother was one of the daughters of Malyuta Skuratov, the infamous favourite of Ivan the Terrible.
Physically robust and passionately beloved by his father, he received the best available education for those days, and from childhood was initiated into all the minutiae of government, besides sitting regularly in the council and receiving the foreign envoys. He seems also to have been remarkably and precociously intelligent, and the first map of Russia by a native, still preserved, is by his hand. [1]
On the sudden death of Boris the sixteen-year-old was proclaimed tsar (13 April 1605). Though his father had taken the precaution to surround him with powerful friends, he lived from the first moment of his reign in an atmosphere of treachery. On 1 July 1605 the envoys of Pseudo-Demetrius I (orFalse Dmitriy I) arrived at Moscow to demand his removal, and the letters which they read publicly in the Red Square decided his fate. A group of boyars, unwilling to swear allegiance to the new tsar, seized control of the Kremlin and arrested him.
On 10 June/20 July Feodor was strangled in his apartment, together with his mother. Officially, he was declared to have been poisoned, but the Swedish historian Peter Petreius stated that the bodies, which had been on public display, showed traces of a violent struggle[1]. Although aged 16 at best, Feodor was known to be physically strong and agile and apparently it took four men to overpower him.[2]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)| Preceded by | Tsar of Russia 1605 |
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