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Fyodor I Ivanovich (
Russian: Фёдор I Иоаннович) (
May 31,
1557 - January 16/17 (NS), 1598) was the last
Rurikid Tsar of
Russia (1584 - 1598), son of
Ivan the Terrible and
Anastasia Romanovna. He is known as
Feodor the Bellringer in consequence of his inclination to travel the land and
ring the bells at churches. He was born in
Moscow and crowned Czar and Autocrat of all Russia at
Assumption Cathedral,
Moscow, on
May 31,
1584.
Feodor, reputedly
mentally retarded, took little interest in
politics. He was of pious character and spent most of his time in prayers. Having inherited a land devastated by the excesses of his father, Ivan the Terrible, he left the task of governing the country to his able brother-in-law,
Boris Godunov.
He married in
1580 Irina (Alexandra) Feodorovna Godunova (
1557 –
October 26/
November 23,
1603), sister of
Boris Godunov. After almost twelve years of marriage, Irina gave birth a daughter, Feodosia, in
1592. When she died in
1594 aged two, the tsar approached a state of mental breakdown. In 1588 he added on to St. Basils Cathedral in the Red Square. Constructed between 1555-1561 by his father Ivan IV (or Ivan the Terrible), he built more towers on the eastern side of the cathedral over the grave of St. Basil the blessed. His failure to procreate other children brought an end to the centuries-old
Rurik dynasty and led Russia into the
Time of Troubles. He died in
Moscow and was buried at
Archangel Cathedral,
Kremlin.
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