He could have turned the story differently. The question of the heir to the throne after Ivan III

In 1490, the eldest son of Ivan III died from his first marriage, who also bore the name Ivan. The question arose, who should be the heir: the second son of the sovereign - Vasily or grandson Dmitry, the son of the deceased prince? Noble, dignitaries really did not want the throne to go to Vasily, the son of Sophia Palaiologos. The late Ivan Ivanovich was titled Grand Duke, was, as it were, equal to his father, and therefore his son, even according to the old family accounts, had the right to seniority. But Vasily, on his mother's side, came from the famous royal root. The courtiers were divided: some stood for Dmitry, others for Vasily. Prince Ivan Yurievich Patrikeev and his son-in-law Semyon Ivanovich Ryapolovsky acted against Sophia and her son. These were persons very close to the sovereign, and all the most important things went through their hands. They and the widow of the deceased Grand Duke - Elena (Dmitry's mother) used all measures to persuade the sovereign to the side of his grandson and cool him to Sophia. Supporters of Dmitry started rumors that Sophia had plagued Ivan Ivanovich. The sovereign apparently began to lean towards the side of his grandson. Then the supporters of Sophia and Vasily, for the most part, humble people - boyar children and clerks, plotted in favor of Vasily. This plot was opened in December 1497. At the same time, Ivan III realized that some dashing women with a potion came to Sophia. He was furious, and did not want to see his wife, and ordered his son Vasily to be kept in custody. The main conspirators were executed painful death First they cut off the arms and legs, and then the heads. The women who came to Sophia were drowned in the river; many were thrown into prison.

The desire of the boyars was fulfilled: on January 4, 1498, Ivan Vasilyevich crowned his grandson Dmitry with unprecedented triumph, as if to annoy Sophia. In the Assumption Cathedral, an elevated place was arranged among the church. Three chairs were placed here: the Grand Duke, his grandson and the Metropolitan. On the tarp lay Monomakh's cap and barm. The Metropolitan served a prayer service with five bishops and many archimandrites. Ivan III and the Metropolitan took their places on the dais. Prince Dmitry stood before them.

“Father Metropolitan,” Ivan Vasilyevich said loudly, “from ancient times our ancestors gave great reign to their first sons, so I blessed my first son Ivan with a great reign. By the will of God, he died. I now bless his eldest son, my grandson Dmitry, with me and after me with the Grand Duchy of Vladimir, Moscow, Novgorod. And you, father, give him your blessing."

After these words, the metropolitan invited Dmitry to stand in the place intended for him, laid his hand on his bowed head and prayed loudly, that the Almighty would vouchsafe him with His mercy, that virtue, pure faith and justice, etc., live in his heart. first barmy, then Monomakh's hat, he passed Ivan III, and he already laid them on his grandson. This was followed by a litany, a prayer to the Theotokos, and many years; after which the clergy congratulated both Grand Dukes. “By the grace of God, rejoice and hello,” the Metropolitan proclaimed, “rejoice, Orthodox Tsar Ivan, Grand Duke of All Russia, autocrat, and with his grandson, Grand Duke Dmitry Ivanovich, of All Russia, for many years!”

Then the metropolitan greeted Dmitry and gave him a brief instruction so that he would have the fear of God in his heart, love the truth, mercy and righteous judgment, and so on. The prince repeated the same instruction to his grandson. With this, the coronation ceremony ended.

After mass, Dmitry left the church wearing barm and a crown. At the door he was showered with gold and silver money. This shedding was repeated at the entrance to the Archangel and Annunciation Cathedral, where the newly married Grand Duke went to pray. On this day, a rich feast was arranged at Ivan III. But the boyars did not rejoice at their triumph for long. And less than a year later, a terrible disgrace befell the main opponents of Sophia and Vasily - the princes Patrikeev and Ryapolovsky. Semyon Ryapolovsky was beheaded on the Moscow River. At the request of the clergy, the Patrikeyevs were shown mercy. The father was tonsured a monk in the Trinity-Sergius Monastery, the eldest son in Kirillo-Belozersky, and the youngest was kept in custody in Moscow. There are no clear indications why the sovereign's disgrace befell these strong boyars. On one occasion, only Ivan III expressed himself about Ryapolovsky, that he was with Patrikeev " high-minded". These boyars, apparently, allowed themselves to annoy the Grand Duke with their advice and considerations. There is also no doubt that some of their intrigues against Sophia and Vasily were revealed. At the same time, Elena and Dmitry fell into disgrace; probably, her participation in the Jewish heresy also damaged her. Sophia and Vasily again took up their former position. From that time on, the sovereign began, according to the chroniclers, "not to take care of his grandson", and declared his son Vasily the Grand Duke of Novgorod and Pskov. The Pskovites, not yet knowing that Dmitry and his mother had fallen out of favor, sent to ask the sovereign and Dmitry to keep their fatherland in the old way, would not appoint a separate prince to Pskov, so that the Grand Duke who would be in Moscow would also be in Pskov.

This request annoyed Ivan III.

“Am I not free in my grandson and in my children,” he said in anger, “to whom I want, I will give the principality!”

He even ordered two of the ambassadors to be imprisoned. In 1502, Dmitry and Elena were ordered to be kept in custody, not to commemorate them at litanies in the church and not to call Dmitry the Grand Duke.

Sending ambassadors to Lithuania, Ivan ordered them to say this if their daughter or anyone else asked about Vasily:

“Our sovereign granted his son, made him a sovereign: as he himself is a sovereign in his states, so is his son with him in all those states a sovereign.”

The ambassador, who went to the Crimea, had to talk about the changes at the Moscow court like this:

“Our sovereign granted his grandson Dmitry, but he began to be rude to our sovereign; but after all, everyone favors the one who serves and strives, and who is rude, the one for which to favor.

Sofia died in 1503. Ivan III, already feeling weak in health, prepared a will. Meanwhile, it was time for Vasily to get married. An attempt to marry him to the daughter of the Danish king failed; then, on the advice of a courtier, a Greek, Ivan Vasilyevich followed the example of the Byzantine emperors. It was ordered to the court to gather the most beautiful girls, daughters of the boyars and boyar children, for the bride. They collected fifteen hundred of them. Vasily chose Solomonia, the daughter of the nobleman Saburov.

This method of marriage later became a custom among the Russian tsars. There was little good in him: when choosing a bride, they valued health and beauty, they did not pay much attention to temper and mind. Moreover, a woman who accidentally came to the throne, often from an ignoble state, could not behave like a real queen: in her husband she saw her master and merciful, she was not a friend for him, but a slave. She could not recognize herself as an equal with the king, and it seemed out of place for her to sit on the throne next to him; but at the same time, as a queen, she had no equal among those around her. Alone in the brilliant royal chambers, in precious jewelry, she was like a prisoner; and the king, her lord, was also alone on the throne. The manners and customs of the court also responded to the life of the boyars, and among them the separation of women from men, even seclusion, intensified even more.

In the same year that Vasily's marriage was completed (1505), Ivan III died on October 27, at the age of 67.

According to the will, all his five sons: Vasily, Yuri, Dmitry, Simeon and Andrei received allotments; but the eldest was assigned 66 cities, the richest, and the remaining four received 30 cities together; besides, they were deprived of the right to judge criminal cases in the destinies and to mint coins.

Therefore, the younger brothers of Ivan III certainly could not be called sovereigns; they were even obliged by an oath to keep the Grand Duke as master "honestly and menacingly, without offense." In the event of the death of an older brother, the younger ones had to obey the son of the deceased as their master. Thus, a new order of succession to the throne was established from father to son. Even during his lifetime, Ivan Vasilyevich ordered Vasily to conclude a similar agreement with Yuri, his second son; moreover, the will said: “If one of my sons dies and leaves neither a son nor a grandson behind, then his entire inheritance goes to my son Vasily, and the younger brothers do not intervene in this inheritance.” The grandson of Dmitry was no longer mentioned.

All your movable property, or "treasury", as it was then said ( gems, gold and silver items, furs, dresses, etc.), Ivan III bequeathed to Vasily.

Ivan Ivanovich, together with his father, went on a campaign to Tver and after its annexation to Moscow in 1485, when his maternal uncle Mikhail Borisovich was expelled from Tver, who was seeking an alliance with the Poles, became the prince of Tver. In honor of the reign of Ivan the Young in Tver, a coin was issued depicting him chopping the tail of a snake, personifying the betrayal of Mikhail Borisovich.

The only son of Ivan the Young - Dmitry Ivanovich Vnuk was crowned king by his grandfather Ivan III in 1498, but in 1502 he fell into disgrace and died in prison in 1509, already in the reign of his uncle Vasily III.

Family

Write a review on the article "Ivan Ivanovich Molodoy"

Notes

Literature

• Ivan Ivanovich Molodoy // Great Soviet Encyclopedia: [in 30 volumes] / ch. ed. A. M. Prokhorov. - 3rd ed. - M. : Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
• // Russian biographical dictionary: in 25 volumes. - St. Petersburg. , 1897. - T. 8: Ibak - Klyucharev. - S. 187-188.
• // Russian biographical dictionary: in 25 volumes. - St. Petersburg. -M., 1896-1918.
• Zimin A. A.. - M .: Thought, 1982. - 50,000 copies.
• Ryzhov K.. - Moscow, 1999.

Links

An excerpt characterizing Ivan Ivanovich Molodoy

There was no betrothal, and no one was announced about Bolkonsky's engagement to Natasha; Prince Andrew insisted on this. He said that since he was the cause of the delay, he must bear the full burden of it. He said that he had forever bound himself with his word, but that he did not want to bind Natasha and gave her complete freedom. If in six months she feels that she does not love him, she will be in her own right if she refuses him. It goes without saying that neither the parents nor Natasha wanted to hear about it; but Prince Andrei insisted on his own. Prince Andrei visited the Rostovs every day, but not like a groom treated Natasha: he told her you and only kissed her hand. Between Prince Andrei and Natasha, after the day of the proposal, completely different than before, close, simple relations were established. They didn't seem to know each other until now. Both he and she loved to remember how they looked at each other when they were still nothing, now they both felt like completely different beings: then pretended, now simple and sincere. At first, the family felt awkward in dealing with Prince Andrei; he seemed like a man from an alien world, and Natasha for a long time accustomed her family to Prince Andrei and proudly assured everyone that he only seemed so special, and that he was the same as everyone else, and that she was not afraid of him and that no one should be afraid his. After a few days, the family got used to him and did not hesitate to lead the old way of life with him, in which he took part. He knew how to talk about housekeeping with the count, and about outfits with the countess and Natasha, and about albums and canvases with Sonya. Sometimes the family Rostovs among themselves and under Prince Andrei were surprised at how all this happened and how obvious the omens of this were: both the arrival of Prince Andrei in Otradnoye, and their arrival in Petersburg, and the similarity between Natasha and Prince Andrei, which the nanny noticed on the first visit Prince Andrei, and the clash in 1805 between Andrei and Nikolai, and many other omens of what happened, were noticed at home.
The house was dominated by that poetic boredom and silence that always accompanies the presence of the bride and groom. Often sitting together, everyone was silent. Sometimes they got up and left, and the bride and groom, remaining alone, were also silent. Rarely did they talk about their future lives. Prince Andrei was scared and ashamed to talk about it. Natasha shared this feeling, like all his feelings, which she constantly guessed. Once Natasha began to ask about his son. Prince Andrei blushed, which often happened to him now and that Natasha especially loved, and said that his son would not live with them.
- From what? Natasha said scared.
“I can’t take him away from my grandfather and then…”
How I would love him! - said Natasha, immediately guessing his thought; but I know you want no pretexts to accuse you and me.
The old count sometimes approached Prince Andrei, kissed him, asked him for advice on the upbringing of Petya or the service of Nikolai. The old countess sighed as she looked at them. Sonya was afraid at any moment to be superfluous and tried to find excuses to leave them alone when they did not need it. When Prince Andrei spoke (he spoke very well), Natasha listened to him with pride; when she spoke, she noticed with fear and joy that he was looking at her attentively and searchingly. She asked herself in bewilderment: “What is he looking for in me? What is he trying to achieve with his eyes? What, if not in me what he is looking for with this look? Sometimes she entered into her insanely cheerful mood, and then she especially liked to listen and watch how Prince Andrei laughed. He rarely laughed, but when he did, he gave himself over to his laughter, and every time after that laughter she felt closer to him. Natasha would have been perfectly happy if the thought of the upcoming and approaching parting had not frightened her, since he, too, turned pale and cold at the mere thought of it.
On the eve of his departure from Petersburg, Prince Andrei brought with him Pierre, who had never been to the Rostovs since the ball. Pierre seemed confused and embarrassed. He was talking to his mother. Natasha sat down with Sonya at the chess table, thus inviting Prince Andrei to her. He approached them.
"You've known the Earless for a long time, haven't you?" - he asked. - You love him?
- Yes, he is nice, but very funny.
And she, as always talking about Pierre, began to tell jokes about his absent-mindedness, jokes that they even made up about him.
“You know, I confided our secret to him,” said Prince Andrei. “I have known him since childhood. This is a heart of gold. I beg you, Natalie,” he said suddenly seriously; I'm leaving, God knows what might happen. You can spill... Well, I know I shouldn't talk about it. One thing - whatever happens to you when I'm gone...
– What will happen?…
“Whatever the grief,” continued Prince Andrei, “I ask you, m lle Sophie, no matter what happens, turn to him alone for advice and help. This is the most absent-minded and funny person, but the most golden heart.
Neither father and mother, nor Sonya, nor Prince Andrei himself could foresee how parting with her fiancé would affect Natasha. Red and agitated, with dry eyes, she walked around the house that day, doing the most insignificant things, as if not understanding what awaited her. She did not cry even at the moment when he said goodbye, he kissed her hand for the last time. - Don't leave! she only said to him in a voice that made him wonder if he really needed to stay and which he remembered for a long time after that. When he left, she didn't cry either; but for several days she sat in her room without crying, was not interested in anything, and only occasionally said: “Ah, why did he leave!”

Shortly after Ivan's death, when trying to poison his son Dmitry, Sophia was exposed and sent to prison with her son Vasily. True, some details differ from reality, but it's still folk tale rather than historical chronicles. The sequence of the birth of the brothers in the fairy tale was as follows - first Dmitry, then Vasily, the last - Ivan. In reality, it was exactly the opposite - first Ivan appeared (1458), then Vasily (1479), then Dmitry (1481). "In between" was also brother Yuri (1480). Ivan Olyan's wife, she is Elena Voloshanka (Moldavanka), born and raised in a European country, was distinguished by intelligence and progressive views. During the reign of her father, the culture and art of the handwritten book developed in Moldova. It is curious that in the fairy tale about Ivan Tsarevich, Elena reproaches the treacherous brothers with the following words: otherwise they killed a sleepy one, and by that, what praise will you get for yourself? This remark itself suggests that Elena, of course, came from a European country with a knightly code of honor. Moldova quite belonged to such countries. Elena was highly educated, and in Moscow a circle of free-thinking people formed around her. It included, among other things, the freethinker Fedor Kuritsyn. In his book Writing About Literacy, he advocated - just think! - free will ("autocracy of the soul"), achieved through education and literacy. Elena, even after the death of her husband Ivan, for some time was able to keep the tsar from reprisals against dissidents, while the new royal wife Sophia demanded a cruel reprisal against "heretics". Ivan Young was the son of Ivan III from his first wife Maria Borisovna, daughter of the Grand Duke Tversky Boris Alexandrovich. Consequently, he was the legitimate heir to the throne of Moscow and Tver. At this time, the throne of Tver was occupied by Mikhail Borisovich, his mother's brother. Being childless and realizing his precarious position, he intrigued against the Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan III. In 1483, a marriage took place between Oliana (Elena Voloshanka) and Ivan the Young. And soon the young had a son and heir Dmitry. Thus, the position of the ruling Moscow dynasty was strengthened. In 1485, Mikhail Borisovich fled from Tver, and Ivan III sent his son there. Until the end of his life, Ivan the Young was not only the co-ruler of his father, but also the Grand Duke of Tver. So the marriage of the Moldavian princess and the Russian heir made it possible to annex Tver to the Muscovite state. What contributed to the creation of a single centralized Russian state in the XV century. At the same time, the second wife of Ivan III, Sophia Paleolog, fell out of favor. Jewelry began to disappear from the royal treasury. As the chronicles wrote about Sophia, “she used up the treasury of the Grand Duke a lot; she gave it to her brother, she gave some to her niece - and a lot. .. "The grand ducal treasury was the subject of special concern for more than one generation of Moscow sovereigns, who tried to increase family treasures. Sophia, without asking anyone, gave the priceless jewelry of the Tver princess Maria (the first wife of Ivan III and the mother of Ivan the Young) to her Italian niece. In In 1483, during the baptism of the first tsar's grandson Dmitry, the son of Ivan the Young and Elena Voloshanka, a huge scandal broke out. poisoned. They say that Sophia Paleolog's people poisoned him. But there is no evidence of this. No one conducted investigations in those distant and dark times, and the doctor who treated Prince Ivan the Young was executed. The political and dynastic struggle continued at the Moscow court. Oliana (Elena Voloshanka) survived her triumph when, in 1497, her grandfather and Grand Duke Moscow Ivan III in the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin crowned his grandson to reign. A magnificent festive ceremony took place with a large gathering of clergy, boyars, princes of nobles, foreign guests and ambassadors, as well as ordinary Moscow people. This was the first crowning of a monarch to reign in the history of the Russian state. And the very first among the many monarchs in the history of Russia was Dmitry

Goda, son of the Grand Duke of Moscow and All Russia John III Vasilievich and his first wife Maria Borisovna. Chronicle says: On the 15th day of February, on Wednesday in Theodore's week, when the hours of singing began, a son was born to Grand Duke Ivan and named Ivan».

On February 24, the church commemorated the First and Second Findings of the head of John the Baptist. Probably, it was John the Baptist who was chosen as the heavenly patron of John the Young. The rite of infant baptism was performed by Metropolitan Jonah.

The rector of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery, Paisius (Yaroslavov), sent a letter to his spiritual son, calling him " become strong ... for your fatherland".

Ivan III, embarrassed by advisers, did not know what to decide: fight with Akhmat or flee to Vologda. An ambulance messenger was sent to John the Young on the Ugra with an order to immediately leave the army and return to Moscow. However, the 22-year-old heir to the throne " the courage of the show, scolding from the father, and not from the shore, and the peasantry is not issued". Departure of John the Younger in these critical days would have a detrimental effect on the morale of the troops and, on the contrary, would give confidence to the Tatars. Disobeying the orders of his formidable father, Ivan risked a lot.

Convinced that John the Young did not intend to carry out his order, Ivan III resorted to cunning. He sent an order to Prince Kholmsky by force to bring the heir to Moscow. Ivan Young replied to this: " I'd rather die here than go to my father".

demise

In the year John the Young fell ill with an ache in his legs ("kamchyug").

At that time there was a doctor in Moscow, Mister Leon, born Zhidovin, brought by Russian ambassadors from Venice; Leon announced to the patient's father: " I will heal your son; but I won’t cure, they ordered me to be executed death penalty ". Ivan III ordered him to treat his son. Karamzin writes: " This Medic, more daring than skilful, burned the patient's feet glass vessels filled with hot water and gave some potion to drink".

In the cold winter of 1458, fifteen-year-old Maria gave birth to a son in the wooden chambers of the Moscow Kremlin. The boy was named after his father Ivan. A few years later, Ivan, nicknamed the Young, became the heir to the throne of Moscow, and then the co-ruler of his father, Ivan III.

Interestingly, scientists say that it was Ivan Young who became the prototype of Ivan Tsarevich, the main superhero of the Russian folk epic.

mother's face

Once, when Ivan was 9 years old, his father left for state affairs in Kolomna. In his absence, Maria Borisovna, Ivan's mother, slender, beautiful, young, suddenly fell ill and died. It was rumored that she was poisoned, as if the wife of the nobleman Alexei Poluevktov carried her belt to the fortuneteller. Returning to the Kremlin, John the Third did not believe the rumors. Nevertheless, the Poluevktovs got scared and disappeared from the yard for 6 years.

Young Ivan, the son of the Grand Duke and Princess Mary, also could not immediately believe that his mother had died. He did not see her lying on the bed and in the coffin, some other woman: blurry, ugly, motionless, with closed eyes, with a strange, swollen face.

Kazan campaign

On the next year father took the young prince on a campaign. A great army gathered: they marched on Kazan, for the third time after two raids in the fall and winter, and almost all of Ivan the Young's uncles brought their regiments - both Yuri, Andrei, Simeon and Boris - all the specific princes, boyars. They went not just to fight: they went to take Kazan, to defeat a dangerous enemy. Ivan Young felt himself an important part of this army, he liked it here, liked to think that he, along with adults, was participating in an important matter.

But one morning John III was informed that a Polish ambassador had arrived in Moscow. John, who was then in Pereyaslavl, ordered the ambassador to come to him and, after negotiations, sent him with an answer to the King, and he himself, together with his son and most of the army, returned to Moscow.

Ivan Young, upset, firmly decided to defeat the Tatars someday.

unwavering

John III was 22 years old when he became the sole ruler of the Moscow lands. His son is the same 22, when he turned from a princely son into one of the heroes who drove the Tatars from Russian lands.

Having quarreled with the Horde Khan, John gathered a huge army and led him to the southern borders, to the Ugra River. But again, indecision, the closer to the battlefield, the more he took possession of him. In the end, he ordered his son, who was standing with the vanguard, to retreat. But Ivan the Young disobeyed his father: "We are waiting for the Tatars," he briefly answered his father's envoy. Then the sovereign sovereign sent to his son Prince Kholmsky, one of the largest politicians of that time, but even he could not convince Ivan Ivanovich. “It is better for me to die here than to retire from the army,” was his answer to his father.

The Tatars approached the Ugra. Ivan Molodoy and his uncle, Prince Andrei Menshoi, exchanged fire with the Khan's army for four days and forced him to move two versts from the coast. As it turned out later, this was the only attack of the Tatars. After waiting until the onset of cold weather, unsuccessfully trying to frighten John the Third with threats, Khan Akhmat retreated completely.

Voloshanka

In the winter of 1482, Ivan the Young was invited to visit his grandmother in the Ascension Monastery of the Moscow Kremlin (she lived there, having taken the veil as a nun). When Ivan arrived, he was introduced to his bride, Elena, the daughter of the Moldavian ruler. As in a fairy tale, Elena, who was nicknamed Voloshanka, was both beautiful and wise. She liked not only the young prince, but also his grandmother and father.

A few days, maybe a month, the young met. And they were married at Baptism. And again, as in a fairy tale, nine months later their son Dmitry was born. It seemed that Russia was doomed to grow stronger and develop after the death of Ivan Vasilyevich: his heir, who was supported by the boyars and most of the princes, would become a worthy sovereign, and a worthy son would also come to replace him.

But the wrong Ivan became the Fourth in Muscovy, and a whole era in the life of the country was associated with the name of the wrong Dmitry.

pattern scandal

The birth of a grandson became a holiday for John III. To celebrate, he decided to give his daughter-in-law, Elena Stefanovna, a patterned, that is, pearl jewelry worn by his first wife, the mother of Ivan the Young, Maria. The Grand Duke sent for a patterner, but no matter how many servants looked for him, they could not find him.

It turned out that the second wife of John, the Byzantine despot Sophia Palaiologos, presented the jewelry to her niece, Maria Palaiologos, the wife of Prince Vasily of Vereya. John was furious. Of course, he planned to give jewelry “with meaning”: in this way, John emphasized who he considered his heir (after all, he also had sons from Sophia).

The Grand Duke ordered the return of all the dowry of Maria Palaiologos. In fear, Vasily Vereisky fled with his wife to Lithuania. John declared Basil a traitor and took away his inheritance. However, Elena did not get the pattern.

snake tail

Under the same pretext, treason, Ivan Vasilyevich finally annexed the Tver principality. Convinced that Mikhail, Prince of Tver, was in correspondence with the Polish king, urging him to war with Moscow, the father of Ivan the Young, as usual, gathered a great army and went on a campaign.

Tver withstood the siege for three days and, when the cowardly Michael fled to Lithuania, opened the gates to the new sovereign.

Ivan Molodoy, Mikhail's nephew and sole heir, became Prince of Tver. Thus, according to the plan of John the Third, in the person of his eldest son, two strong Russian principalities were united into one strong state.

On the occasion of the reign of Ivan Ivanovich, a coin was minted in Tver, which depicts a young prince chopping the tail of a snake.

Venetian doctor

The Italians, especially the Venetians, unwittingly left several traces in the medieval history of Russia. So one Venetian ambassador to the Horde was convicted of deceit: while living in Moscow, he hid the purpose of his trip from the sovereign, for which he was almost executed.

Another of his compatriots, a doctor named Leon, did much worse.

Thirty-two years old, Ivan Molodoy fell seriously ill: he was overcome by kamchyuga, that is, aching legs, a symptom not uncommon in medicine. The doctor promised to cure the prince, gave him hot jars, gave him some kind of medicine, but Ivan only got worse and, in the end, he died.

Forty days after his death, the unlucky physician was executed, and rumors spread around Moscow that Sophia Paleolog poisoned her stepson.