Nikita Romanovich (; born c. 1522 – 23 April 1586), also known as Nikita Romanovich Zakharyin-Yuriev, was a prominent Russian

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. His grandson

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(Tsar 1613-1645) founded the Romanov dynasty of Russian

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Biography

He was a son of the

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Roman Yurievich Zakharyin (who died on 16 February 1543, and who gave his name to the Romanov dynasty of Russian monarchs), and of Roman Yurievich's wife Uliana Ivanovna, who died in 1579. Nikita Romanovich became the brother-in-law of Tsar

Ivan IV of Russia Ivan IV Vasilyevich (; – ), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible,; ; monastic name: Jonah. was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584. ...

(Ivan the Terrible), who married Nikita’s sister

Anastasia Romanovna Anastasia Romanovna Zakharyina-Yurieva (; 1530 – 7 August 1560) was the tsaritsa of all Russia as the first wife of Ivan IV of Russia, Ivan IV, the tsar of all Russia. She was also the mother of Feodor I of Russia, Feodor I, the last lineal ...

in 1547. His great-grandfather was Zakhary Ivanovich Koshkin. Nikita Romanovich first appears in the historical record in 1547, when, on the occasion of the Tsar's wedding with Anastasia Romanovna, he was promoted to '' spalnik'' and ''

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''. He participated as a '' rynda'' (bodyguard) of the tsar in the unlucky campaigns against the

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in 1547 and in 1548. Later he became the assistant to the Princes Vasily Serebryany and Andrey Nogtev-Suzdalsky with the rank of

in the Livonian campaign of 1559. He was granted

status in 1562. Four years later, following the death of his brother Daniil Romanovich, he became the governor of

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. He commanded detachments of the Russian army during the winter campaign of 1572 in

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and against

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. He also took part in the Livonian campaigns of 1573 and 1577. Before his death (March 1584) Ivan the Terrible left his two sons, Feodor and Dmitry, to the care of trusted associates. Until illness incapacitated him in late 1584, Nikita Romanovich, as the only uncle of Tsar Feodor I, led the regency. He died on 23 April 1586 and was buried in the

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near Moscow.

Marriages and issue

Nikita Romanovich married twice. His first wife, Varvara Ivanovna Khovrina-Golovina (d. 18 June 1556), was the daughter of the hereditary treasurer of Tsardom of Russia and of a

Rurikid The Rurik dynasty, also known as the Rurikid or Riurikid dynasty, as well as simply Rurikids or Riurikids, was a noble lineage allegedly founded by the Varangian prince Rurik, who, according to tradition, established himself at Novgorod in the ...

princess. They had two daughters: # Anna (d. 1585), married to Prince Ivan Fyodorovich Troyekurov (d. 29 May 1621) # Euphimia (d. murdered 23 March 1602), married to Prince Ivan Vasilievich Sitski (d. Kozheozero Monastery, 23 March 1608) Nikita Romanovich second wife, Evdokiya Alexandrovna Gorbataya-Shuyskaya (d. 4 April 1581), another Rurikid princess from the

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branch, was a sixth cousin of the future Vasili IV. By her, he had issue eleven children: # Fyodor Nikitich Romanov # Marfa (d. 1610), married to Prince Boris Keybulatovich Tcherkasskiy (d. 22 April 1601) # Lev (d. 1595) # (d. Nyrob, 18 March 1605), okolnichiy # Alexander (d. murdered in Usolie-Lud 15 March 1605),

(1599), married firstly to Princess Eudoxia Ivanovna Galitsyna (d. 1 August 1597) and secondly to Juliana Semyonovna Pogozhaya (d. 1622), without issue. # Nikifor (d. 1601) # Ivan "Kascha" (d. 1640),

(1605), married to Princess Uliana Fyodorovna Litvinova-Massalaskaya (d. 1650), and had issue: ##

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(c. 1607 – 21 December 1654),

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1645 ## Andrey (d. 25 April 1609) ## Dmitry (d. 4 November 1611) ## Irina (d. 10 September 1615) ## Praskovia (d. 25 October 1622) ## Ivan (d. 30 July 1625) # Uliana (d. 1565) # Irina (d. 6 June 1636), married in 1602 to Ivan Ivanovich Godunov (d.

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ed 1610), okolnichiy (1603), a second cousin of

Boris Godunov Boris Feodorovich Godunov (; ; ) was the ''de facto'' regent of Russia from 1585 to 1598 and then tsar from 1598 to 1605 following the death of Feodor I, the last of the Rurik dynasty. After the end of Feodor's reign, Russia descended into t ...

, and had issue: ## Pyotr, Steward, who married and had issue: ### Grigory, Steward (1678), married to Marfa Afanasievna, without issue. # Anastasiya (d. 1655), married to Prince Boris Mikhailovich Lykov-Obolenskiy, one of the Seven Boyars of 1610 # Vasily (d. Pelym, 15 February 1601)

References

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