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Fyodor the first and Ascension of Boris Goodenoff.

Last week we saw the end of the reign of Ivan the Terrible with his death in 1584.

His rule caused a wholesale change in the fabric of Russian society.

He took ancestral lands away from countless boyars, redistributing it to a new group of more loyal people.

This was to benefit future SARS, but it also caused

great pain to his countrymen, which would take years to recover from. Now, though, his feeble-minded son was to serve as the figurehead ruler to help heal Russia

from some very deep wounds.

This was a very wrong situation, as Fyodor was certainly not the right son to rule Russia.

That role was supposed to fall to Tsauravich Ivan, who, unfortunately, was murdered by his father, Ivan the fourth, which therefore left Russia in the hands of yet

another chosen council.

For the next 14 years, Fyodor was dragged out from time to time to lead an army here, greeting foreign

emissaries there, and to basically provide Russia with what it needed, a leader

with a peaceful demeanor unlike his cruel and vicious father.

Fiodor was so unlike his father in all ways, except one.

The prominent Greek nose inherited from Ivan III's wife, Zoe Paleolog.

Whereas his father was tall, sturdy, and powerfully built

with penetrating eyes.

Feodor was short, weak, and barely able to stand on his own with a true simple-mindedness.

His subjects viewed him as a saintly figure because of his deeply religious demeanor.

The real rulers at this time was the new five-man council, which included his uncle Nikita Romanov, Boris

Kudinov, Bogden Belski, Ivan Shrewski, and Ivan Mistslovsky.

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