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| Vladimir of Staritsa | |
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 Council of Vladimir andIvan with the boyars on the capture ofKazan, miniature from theIllustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible | |
| Prince ofStaritsa | |
| Reign | 1541–1566 |
| Monarch | Ivan IV |
| Prince ofDmitrov | |
| Reign | 1566–1569 |
| Monarch | Ivan IV |
| Born | (1535-07-09)9 July 1535 Moscow, Russia |
| Died | 9 October 1569(1569-10-09) (aged 34) Alexandrov, Russia |
| Spouse | Eudoxia Romanovna Odoevskaya |
| House | Rurik |
| Father | Andrey of Staritsa |
| Mother | Yefrosinya Staritskaya |
Vladimir Andreyevich (Russian:Владимир Андреевич; 9 July 1535 – 9 October 1569)[1] was the lastappanage Russian prince.[2] His complicated relationship with his cousin,Ivan the Terrible, was dramatized inSergei Eisenstein's 1945 filmIvan the Terrible.
The only son ofAndrey of Staritsa and his wifeYefrosinya Staritskaya (née Khovanskaya), Vladimir spent his childhood under strict surveillance inMoscow.
In 1541, he was released along with his mother: "the grand prince Ivan Vasilyevich of all Russia granted at the intercession of his father Joasaphus, the metropolitan of all Russia, and his boyars, the prince Vladimir Andreyevich and his mother, the princess Yefrosinya, the wife of the prince Andrey Ivanovich, to be released from detention, and the prince Vladimir was ordered to be at his father's court, the prince Andrey Ivanovich, and with his mother".[3] He was reinstated in his father's appanages,Staritsa andVereya. There he married and lived in peace until 1553, when the tsar fell mortally ill.
During the final crisis of Ivan's illness, mostboyars refused to swear fealty to his baby son and decided to put Vladimir on the throne instead. To their dismay, thetsar rapidly recovered, but a great change took place in his behaviour and manners. He summoned Vladimir to Moscow and signed with him a treaty whereby Vladimir was to live in Moscow with a small retinue and avoid contacts with Ivan's boyars. In the event of the tsar's death, Vladimir was to becomeregent for his minor son.
After Vladimir's mother was forced to take the veil and his boyars exiled, Ivan permitted Vladimir to marry Eudoxia Romanovna Odoevskaya in April 1555. With the start ofoprichnina, however, Ivan's suspicions against his cousin were resuscitated. In 1564, theOprichniki burnt Vladimir's palace in Moscow, and most of his lands were confiscated. In 1569, accused of high treason by Ivan, Vladimir and his children were forced to take poison at Ivan's residence inAlexandrov.[4] His mother and wife, who resided at theGoritsy Convent nearVologda, were forcibly drowned in theSheksna River several days later.
The extermination of Vladimir's family precipitated the extinction of the Muscovite branch of theRurik dynasty and the dynastic crisis known as theTime of Troubles. Vladimir's only surviving daughter,Maria, was married in 1573 toMagnus of Livonia (son ofChristian III of Denmark). Upon her husband's death, she was summoned fromCourland to the court ofBoris Godunov and forced to take the veil in a convent adjacent to theTroitse-Sergiyeva Lavra. In 1609, Maria entered into correspondence with herfalse cousin who had proclaimed himself tsar. Her subsequent fate is not documented.
...пожаловал князь великий Иван Васильевич всея Русии по печалованию отца своего Иосафа митрополита всея Русии и боляр своих князя Володимера...
