Anastasia Romanovna Zakharine

See also: Anastasia of Russia (homonymy)

Anastasia Romanovna Zakharine (in Russian АнастасияРомановнаЗахарьина ) born in 1520, died in 1560; first woman of Ivan IV terrible the, It will give him a son, Fédor Ier, which will reign approximately about fifteen years. She was the girl of the boyard Roman Zakharine, which gave its name to the dynasty of the Romanov.

Ivan and Anastasia married themselves the February 7th 1547 with the the Kremlin of Moscow. It is believed that it had a moderating influence on the character rather volatile of her husband. During the summer of 1560, it fell sick and died after great sufferings. Ivan grew that his wife had been poisoned and, even if it did not have an obvious evidence, started to torture and carry out the boyards that it suspected of the crime. Its aversion towards them went back to its childhood because he believed that they had also assassinated his/her mother, Héléna Glinski, to seize the capacity.

At the end of the XXe century, one unearthed the body of Anastasia to study his bones and the medico-legal experts discovered that the suspicions of Ivan the Terrible were perhaps founded.

The brother of Anastasia, Nikita Romanovitch, was the father of Fédor, which was the first to take the name of Romanov. This Fédor, first cousin of Fédor Ier, is the father of Michel III, the first tsar of the dynasty of Romanov.

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