Борис Годунов биография на британском

Boris Godunov was born in 1552. According to legend, descended from Tatar Godunov Prince Chet, who came to Russia in the time of Ivan Kalita. This legend is recorded in the annals of the early 17th century. As sovereign rodoslovtsu 1555 Godunovs (as Saburovy, Sonya) were derived from Dmitry grains. He was, apparently, Kostroma patrimonial. Despite the validity of this point of view it is not excluded that some grain of truth contained in the legend about Chet. It is no accident that the founders of the individual branches of the descendants of Chet bore the names of Tatar origin (Sabur, Guodong). Father BF Godunov died in the late 60s. Son became oprichnik. He was married to the daughter of the king's favorite, [en] Malyuta Skuratov. Since the beginning of 1570s. It began the rise of Godunov. Sam Boris Fedorovich, although became a boyar in September 1580, but in the circle of close people Tsar Ivan the Terrible was not yet come. At least, at the wedding of the king with Maria Nude (November 1580), it was established to be a "best man" queen. But revealing the increased role of the family: at the wedding attended by a clan Godunov. They slowly but steadily climbed the ladder: in the late 1570s - early 1580s. they won several parochial affairs, finding quite a strong position among the Moscow nobility. Boris Godunov was clever and cautious, trying from time to time to stay in the shade. His sister Irene was married the king's son, Theodore. Rise Godunov - the fruit of a historical accident, and at the same time a manifestation of the general laws of self-development of Russian society. So Boris would remain in the history of one of the many Godunov if November 9, 1581 in the Alexander settlement is not the king had a quarrel with his son Ivan. Terrible hit his stick and hit in the head, and ten days later (19 November) the prince died. With the death of [en] Ivan Fedor he became heir to the throne. Until 1584 Boris Godunov was not close to the king. However, some of the actions and intentions of Grozny radically affected the interests of Godunov, especially Boris: the king wanted to marry Mary Hastings, a relative of Queen Elizabeth and dilute with childless Fedor Irina Godunov. In the last year of life of the king Boris Godunov gained great influence at court. Together with BJ Belsky he became one of the closest people of Ivan the Terrible. It is not entirely clear role in the history of Godunov's death of the king. March 18, 1584 Grozny, according to D. Gorseya, was "strangled". It is possible that against the king was a plot. However, anthropologist MM Gerasimov, who studied the remains of the king, rejected the version of strangulation.In any case, it Godunov and Belsky were with the king in the last minutes of his life , they are the same people from the porch announced the death of the sovereign.