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THEODORE I

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 765 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THEODORE I . (1557-1598), See also:tsar of See also:Russia, the son of See also:Ivan the Terrible and Anastasia Romanova, nominally succeeded his See also:father in 1584, but being of weak See also:intellect was governed throughout his reign by the See also:boyar, Boris Godunov, whose See also:sister See also:Irene he married in 1580. On his See also:death-See also:bed he is said to have See also:left the See also:throne to his See also:consort, with the See also:Patriarch See also:Job, Boris Godunov, and Theodore See also:Romanov, afterwards the Patriarch See also:Philaret, as her See also:chief counsellors. Irene, however, retired into a monastery and her See also:brother Boris stepped into her See also:place. See S. M. Solovev, See also:History of Russia (Rus.), vol. viii. (See also:Petersburg, 1895, &c.).

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