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See also:THEODORE II . (1589-1605), See also:tsar of See also:Russia, was the son of Tsar Boris Godunov and one of the daughters of Malyuta-Skuratov, the infamous favourite of See also:Ivan the Terrible. Passionately beloved by his See also:father, he received the best available See also:education for those days, and from childhood was initiated into all the minutiae of See also:government, besides sitting regularly in the See also:council and receiving the See also:foreign envoys. He seems also to have been remarkably and precociously intelligent, and the first See also:map of Russia by a native, still preserved, is by his See also:hand. On the sudden See also:death of Boris he was proclaimed tsar (13th of See also:April 16o5). Though his father had taken the precaution to surround him with powerful See also:friends, he lived from the first moment of his reign in an See also:atmosphere of treachery. On the 1st of See also:July the envoys of Pseudo-See also:Demetrius I. arrived at See also:Moscow to demand his removal, and the letters which they read publicly in the Red Square decided his See also:fate. On the loth of July he was most foully murdered in his apartments in the Kreml. See D. I. Ilovaisky, The Anarchical See also:Period in 'the See also:Realm of Moscovy (Rus.) (Moscow, 1894). End of Article: THEODORE IIAdditional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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