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Katherine of Aragon + motto

“Humble & Loyal”

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HISTORY OF RUSSIA:  Anastasia Romanovna Zakharyina-Yurieva (1530 – 7 August 1560).

It is widely believed that Anastasia had a moderating influence on Ivan's volatile character. Sir Jerome Horsey, an agent for the Russia Company and envoy for English court, wrote in his memoirs about Anastasia and Ivan IV: "He being young and riotous, she ruled him with admirable affability and wisdom”.

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HISTORY OF RUSSIA : Anna Vasilchikova ( 1576/77) was Tsaritsa of the Tsardom of Russia and was the fifth spouse of Ivan the IV Terrible. 

Very little is known of her background. She married Ivan in January 1575 without the blessing of the Ecclesiastical Council of the Russian Orthodox Church. She was repudiated by her husband and made a nun in a monastery. The date of her death is uncertain, having been variously described as occurring in 1576–77.

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HISTORY OF RUSSIA : Anna Alexeievna Koltovskaya (before 1572 – 5 April 1626) was Tsaritsa of the Tsardom of Russia and the fourth spouse of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia ("Ivan the Terrible").

After two years of marriage, Ivan began to tire of his wife due to her sterility. He repudiated her, and sent her to the convent of Vedenski-Tikhvinski where she assumed the monastery name of Daria. Only she and Maria Nagaya, the eighth wife of Ivan the terrible, outlived the tsar.

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HISTORY OF RUSSIA :  Marfa Vasilevna Sobakina (1552–1571). Was Tsaritsa of the Tsardom of Russia and was the third spouse of Ivan the Terrible.

Her death increased her husband's paranoia, because she died in what was meant to be an impregnable fortress filled with loyal subjects. Ivan, remembering the death of his first wife, immediately suspected poison and put to death many of his subjects, including Mikail Temrjuk (brother to the Tzar's previous wife) who was impaled.

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HISTORY OF RUSSIA :  Maria Temryukovna  (1544 – 1 September 1569).  Second spouse to Ivan IV of Russia.

She never fully integrated to the Muscovite way of life, and was considered a poor stepmother to Ivan's two sons Ivan and Feodor. Some historians write that it was she who first incited her husband to form the oprichniki.