Maria Dolgorukaya (died 1580) possibly was the seventh wife of

Ivan the Terrible Ivan IV Vasilyevich (; – ), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible,; ; monastic name: Jonah. was Grand Prince of Moscow, Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar of all Russia, Tsar and Grand Prince of all R ...

, Tsar of Russia. The marriage (unauthorized by the church) may have been celebrated in 1580. Legend says she did not bear the Tsar any children and was revealed to have a lover after their first night together, when the Tsar discovered she was not a virgin. Ivan subsequently had her drowned. There is no evidence of her existence in primary sources. The first mention can be found in 19th-century Russian literature.Н. И. Костомаров, «Смутное время Московского государства в начале XVII столетия 1604—1613» // Вестник Европы, 1866 Nikolay Kostomarov in 1866 wrote that the notice about her was found by Afanasiy Byichkov in a manuscript in the Imperial Public Library. Modern historians now have doubts about whether she existed.

References

, - , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Dolgorukaya, Maria 1580 deaths 16th-century births Deaths by drowning in Russia Maria European people whose existence is disputed Uxoricides Wives of Ivan the Terrible People from the Tsardom of Russia