On January 16, 1547, at the age of sixteen, Ivan IV, Grand Duke of Moscow, was successfully crowned, becoming the first Tsar in Russian history. During the reign of Ivan IV, the Russians had been freed from the so-called "Tatar shackles", the decline of the Golden Horde marked the official rise of the Russians, the Golden Horde's split of the Kazan Khanate, the Astrakhan Khanate and the Siberian Khanate were also destroyed by Ivan IV, and the Immovable Crimean Khanate was defeated by Ivan IV.
Ivan IV conquered the Kazan Khanate
For a long time in ivan IV's life, he fought against the Mongols, he made the Russians no longer afraid of the nomadic cavalry, and removed the shadow left by the Mongol iron horse to the Russians, but it was such a hero in the minds of the Russians, who was actually the son of the Mongols.
Ivan IV's mother, Yelena, was a descendant of Mamai, a powerful minister of the Golden Horde, who, after being defeated by the Golden Horde, had many members of his family choose to defect to the Muscovite Principality, while Elena married The Grand Duke of Moscow, Vasily III, in 1525 and gave birth to Ivan IV.
Perhaps because his mother was Mongol, Ivan IV also actively supported the Mongol nobles loyal to the Russians, and in 1575 he canonized a Mongol named Simeon (Sain Blatter) as the "Grand Duke of Russia", and Ivan IV may have wanted to declare himself the rightful heir of the Golden Horde.
The Mongols of the Golden Horde in film and television works
Just a dozen years after Ivan IV's death, a Mongol named Boris Godunov even became the third tsar in Russian history.
During the reign of the Golden Horde, due to civil wars between tribes, many defeated Mongol nobles chose to go to the Muscovite Principality to pledge allegiance to the Russians, and this is how Godunov's ancestors entered Russia.
Around the fourteenth century, Godunov's ancestor Chet was defeated in the civil war of the Golden Horde, and like many of the defeated Mongol nobles of the time, Chet fled to the Muscovite Principality and was received by Ivan I, Grand Duke of Moscow, and since then Chet has lived with his descendants in the Russian city of Kostroma.
Boris Godunov
After fleeing from the Chincha steppe to the city of Kostroma, the Chet family went from being a subordinate of the Golden Horde to a loyal vassal of the Grand Duke of Moscow, and by the time of Ivan IV's reign, Godunov, who was born in the Chet family, received ivan IV's weight, and Godunov even became a relative of Ivan IV, marrying his sister Irina to Ivan IV's son Fyodor.
In mid-November 1581, Ivan IV had a quarrel with his son Ivan, which resulted in an enraged Ivan IV killing his son by mistake, and when Ivan IV beat Ivan, Godunov tried to stop him, but was also injured by Ivan IV.
When Ivan IV gradually calmed down, he found that his son had died, and he held his son and cried bitterly, and Ivan's accidental death laid the groundwork for Godunov to become tsar.
Ivan IV killed his son
Ivan had already been made crown prince by his father Ivan IV, and his accidental death left Ivan IV having to pass the throne to another son, Fiordo, who was Godunov's brother-in-law and had intellectual problems.
Later, Ivan IV could only make Fiordo crown prince, but Ivan IV knew that his intellectually problematic son would not be able to shoulder the heavy responsibility, so he entrusted five nobles to assist Fiordo in governing the country, including Godunov.
After the death of Ivan IV, the five nobles began to fight for power, and Godunov was a supporter of Fiordo, and when Fiordo successfully ascended the throne, Godunov began to weaken the power of other nobles as "uncles", and when the other nobles were eliminated, Godunov became the only regent.
Portrait of Godunov
On 7 January 1598, Feordo, who had no heirs, died of illness, leaving no successor to the Rurik dynasty, so the ministers decided to elect Feordo's wife Irina as Tsar, but Irina refused the ministers' proposal, and she had already decided to become a nun.
In the end, the ministers had to elect Irina's brother Godunov as the new Tsar, and Godunov gladly accepted this request, and he successfully became the third tsar in Russian history until his death in 1605. However, Godunov's smooth ascension to the throne inevitably makes people wonder whether Feordo's death is related to him, and some historians believe that Godunov sent someone to poison Fiordo in order to seize the throne.