Biography
Irina Fedorovna Godunova is one of the few tsaritsov ruled by the Russian state. She was a full-fledged monthly month preceding the climbing on the throne Boris Godunov.Childhood and youth
Irina Godunova - Sister Boris Godunova and the wife of Tsar Fyodor John, was born in 1557. The parents were Boyarin Fedor John Krivoy Godunov and Stepanida Ioannovna. Together with the brother, the girl was brought up with the children of John Grozny. Irina was seven years old when she first crossed the threshold of the ruler of Rus. Uncle Godunov served as blocking in the Duma. The proximity to the monarch attached to the family, published from an unknown Kostroma kind, special status.
Irina loved Fedor John in childhood. Children were friends from the Small years and did not have secrets from each other. Wedding of young took place in 1575, when they were 17 years old. Contrary to traditions Fedor did not choose the bride. He knew in advance who he wanted to see his wife.
Childhood and youth, held next to the wise brother and Tikhim Tsarevich, who was not interested in intrigues, affected the character of Irina. She became the favorite of the ruling empasisers and this strengthened the position of the family at the court. The boyars were unhappy with such a state of affairs. The girl with an attractive appearance, pride and authority, was interested in state and public affairs.
Governing body
Irina Godunova was very different from the queens that the people were used to see. Her predecessors were in the shadow of her husbands, did not participate in the reign of the country and visited only the church. Irina brought acquaintance with the English Queen and the Kakhetian queen, consisted of correspondence with the European kings and took foreign ambassadors, met in the Boyar Duma and was engaged in issues of the Church. The queen made generous donations to the monasteries.
In 1589, Irina Godunov visited Constantinople Patriarch Jeremiah. He blessed a woman, after which she made a deed, which no queen did not make. Irina made a public speech. The wise government was delivered to all issues of state importance, and the husband did not re-read the beloved spouse. He even allowed her to put his own signature on the documents as a consent with the choice of the king.
Irina and Fedor did not have heirs left. According to the will of John Grozny, in case of infertility, his son should marry Irina Mstislavskaya. So the father of the king wanted to strengthen Russia, united under the Board of the Legal Descendant. Boris Godunov helped his sister, wrailing the Mstislavskaya and locked it against the will in the monastery. In 1598, Fyodor John died. Godunov and Patriarch Job staged a conspiracy with the goal of Irina on the throne.
The boyars did not want the Troubles accompanying the replacement of the rulers, and swore the queen in loyalty. Avoiding the advantage on the throne of Boris Godunov, they chose Tsaritsa as a profitable person. Irina Godunova became the Queen of All Russia. The oath text was unusual. The subjects swore in loyalty not only by Irina, but also her brother, and Patriarch Iowa. In honor of the queen served whatever, which was not before that moment never in history.
The board of the woman took a short period. She was in power from January 16 to February 21, 1598. This time the simple people considered benevolent, as you used to the queen. Irina remembered the Testament of the husband, who asked to take a haircut in the nun after his death.
So Fedor wanted to protect the favorite from intrigue and fluttering boyars. The decision on the adoption of the post Irina voiced independently on the red porch. The place of privacy of the former government was the Novodevichy Monastery. She became an inokine Alexander.
Living in the monastery, a woman took guests with petrot and distributed orders, continuing to rule the country. Then Irina blessed Brother Boris to reign. Historians call the transmission of the throne with a political performance played by Godunov. He bribed the petitioners to pray to climb him on the throne. Boris defiantly rejected the proposal of supporters, but after blessing the sister agreed.
Personal life
The question of heirs was a sick theme for Irina and Fedor. Historians call several reasons why spouses could be fruitless. Among them, the nude man. For Fedor, Johnovich invited drugs, but the situation remained unchanged.
Irina was repeatedly in position, and the pregnancy could not be saved. The only daughter of Feodosia, which appeared on the light in 1592, did not live up to two years. A century later, scientists found out that the reason for infertility of the queen was walking in the peculiarities of the structure of the pelvis. It did not allow the child successfully.
Fyodor Ioannovich loved his wife more than the throne. With his consent, Irina tried a weighty public and political role. The king provided his wife the opportunity to learn and entrusted the right to vote in the Boyar Duma, counting the wise and turning. Monarch did not regret anything for the beloved.
Irina loved luxury, and her outfits corresponded to the status. The queen appeared in the public in the robes, covered with precious stones. For her, the Golden Chamber was restored, the role of the parade hall. The room was painted with frescoes, narrating the life of women in the throne: Princess Olga, Queen Dinar and St. Helena.
Death
The remains of the days of Irina spent in the monastery in serving God and charitable concerns. She had a chance to live five years after the post. The conditions in the monastery were not comfortable, and the former Queen suffered from pain in the joints. Gave you to know about yourself and the pathology of bones.
At the end of the life of Irina with difficulty moved independently. Researchers who studied the sarcophagus of the Queen noted that in her remains found a large number of arsenic, lead and mercury. This indicates a frequent use of ointments, dull pain.
Inokine Alexander died in 1603. Her burial was located in the Ascension Monastery of the Moscow Kremlin, and then was transferred to the Archangel Cathedral. Irina found a rest next to the graves of venance. The property of the former queen has moved the church.
Memory
The biography of Irina Godunova is not rich in interesting facts. The legacy of the government in the history is poorly.
- The names of the queen and her spouse are immortalized in a commemorative inscription located on the king-gun, which was cast in 1586.
- Experts-criminalists, having studied the remains of the queen Irina, restored her appearance. Therefore, the modern generation has a photo showing how one of the most famous women of the turn of 16-17 centuries looked like.
- Queen Irina and Tsar Fedor John donated 4500 rubles to Trinity Sergiev Monastery.