Vasilisa Melentyeva
(????-1579)
Tsaritsa of All Russia
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Vasilisa Melentyeva (Russian: Васили́са Меле́нтьева) was the legendary or real sixth wife of Ivan the Terrible. The marriage (not authorized by the Church) may have been celebrated in 1575 or she was simply a concubine. Modern scholars now tend to consider her to be a 19th-century fraud.
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| Born | Vasilisa MelentyevaRussia |
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1579 (aged ) Russia
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Ivan the Terrible 1530-1584 · Tsar and Grand Duke of all Rus' from 1547 to 1584 · m. 1576; div. 1576
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