Solovaya, Feodosia Mikhailovna

The daughter of the ordinary son of the boyar Mikhail Timofeevich Petrov, a Ryazan who came from the Batur murza family, who left Bolshoi Horde to Vel. Prince Fedor Olgovich Ryazansky (later the name Petrovo-Solovovo ) ^[1] .

In 1574 she married Tsarevich Ivan. July 29, 1574 (possibly in connection with the wedding of his daughter) Petrov-Solovoy received large estates in the Shelonsky Pyatina, in 1575 - estates of the disgraced V. I. Umny ^[2] . In 1577 he was made devious.

In 1579 she was tonsured a nun on Beloozero for childlessness (most likely after November 12, 1579 - the last mention of her father in the sources) ^[2] . Later, as indicated, she joined the first wife of Ivan Evdokia Saburova in the Suzdal Pokrovsky monastery .

She also lived in the Goritsky monastery ^[3] . After her, the prince married Elena Sheremeteva . Towards the end of his life, the position of the exiled Princess Praskovia improved slightly. After the death of Boris Godunov in 1605, she was transferred to the Moscow Ascension Monastery, in which she died in 1622 ^[4] .

A new chronicler reports of her death ^[5] :

About the death of Queen Praskovya. At the same time, Tsarina Praskovya Mikhailovna [wife] of Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich died, but she was tonsured at Beloozero, in the Maiden’s monastery, and from the Maiden’s monastery she was transferred to Vladimir to the Maiden’s monastery, and from Vladimir she was transferred to Moscow, and was in Ivanovsky the monastery, and then passed away. And she was buried in the Ascension Monastery with the tzarina together, and Tsar Ivan Vasilievich tonsured it during the [life] of the Tsarevich. The daughter was Mikhail Solovoy, a Kashiryan.

Panova T.D. indicates ^[6] that in the Ascension Monastery (later transferred to the Archangel Cathedral) her burial is among the nameless.

Shuisky Case

Already in the monastery, she was drawn into new troubles. “In 1587, a conspiracy of the princes of Shuysky was revealed in Moscow, which aimed to divorce Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich with his wife Irina Godunova. The reason for this was the Queen’s infertility. At the head of the conspiracy were the celebrated heroes of the defense of Pskov from the troops of Stefan Batory, the boyars and governors Ivan Petrovich and Andrei Petrovich Shuisky. The plot was uncovered by Boris Godunov, who cracked down on his opponents. Ivan Petrovich was sent into exile in his ancestral village of Lopatnitsy (near Suzdal), and Andrei Ivanovich was sent to the village of Voskresenskaya Sloboda. The path to Lopatnitsa lay through Suzdal. Ivan Petrovich Shuisky drove into the Pokrovsky monastery and saw the young exiled princess Praskovya Solova. He invited her and abbess to stay with him in Lopatnitsy. Praskovya and Mother Superior Leonid agreed to visit him, without foreseeing the consequences of this visit. They immediately learned about the trip in Moscow. One must think that the main scammer was Praskovya rival - Evdokia Saburova. In March 1587, a letter from Tsar Fedor about the search was urgently sent, as a result of which Ivan Petrovich Shuisky was captured and taken from Lopatnitsy to White Lake, where he was locked in a house covered with hay and set on fire. Andrei Petrovich was exiled to Kargopol, where he died. But he was buried in the Suzdal Cathedral. In his coffin, Dimitry Ivanovich laid a cover in 1593, which is stored in the Suzdal Museum ” ^[4] .

• Tsarevna Pelageya Mikhailovna - daughter of Mikhail Fedorovich