Women of Ivan the terrible - reconstruction

90-ых years Russia has been actively interested in his pre-revolutionary past, trying to see how it looks through the lens of scientific Marxism. It was then that scientists began to study “the female cemetery of the Kremlin” - ancient necropolis where they buried the women of the families of the Moscow princes and tsars. To the historical value of their graves ignored.


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convent was laid after the death of Dmitry Donskoy, his widow, the Princess Eudoxia. She also became the first Russian noble woman was buried on the territory of the future ascension of the necropolis. By the mid-eighteenth century, buried there for about seventy princesses, duchesses, Queens and princesses, as well as a few others.

In the seventeenth year, after the revolution, the monastery has sent all its occupants, and on the twenty-ninth - destroyed it to build a Military school. Prior to demolition, the architects were heavily measured structure and copied the burial, and it helped scientists in the late nineties. However, it is still a body left without the ability to identify them, especially because they were quickly transferred to the Archangel Cathedral. And yet, the necropolis many told the researchers.


it looked like a monastery.


We now know how to look native Ivan the terrible woman

zero expert-криминалист Sergey Nikitin was able to reconstruct from the surviving skulls appearance of several buried once on Voznesensky necropolis women: the mother of Ivan the terrible Elena Glinskaya, third wife, the formidable Martha Sobakina, his grandmother Sophia Palaeologus, his first mother-in-law old Juliana and daughter-in-law Irina Godunov. Apart from them, and restored the appearance of the last Ryurikovna, girls of Maria staryts"ka, and the founder of the monastery of the ascension Evdokia Dmitrievna. For the reconstruction was used as a method of Gerasimov, and more modern techniques (which allow, for example, to reconstruct accurately the shape of the nose and ears, the presence of epicanthus, a line of hair growth).

In the grave Glinsky found a long red hair, and her appearance can be called typical of the Baltic, despite the fact that Elena was half (mother) Serbian. She was very pretty, tall (she had an extra vertebra) and would be considered beautiful in our time. Most likely, the terrible, contrary to the image to which we are accustomed from childhood, the hair also had red or reddish - mother.


Sculptural portrait of Elena Glinskaya skull.

the Greek Sophia Palaeologus was the winner of one of the Mediterranean types. It looks very similar to my grandson, making an unfounded rumor that Glinskaya gave birth to a son from his lover. In addition, the bones failed to establish that she was a mild excess of male hormones - probably has a Queen with a mustache and thick eyebrows. Maria staryts"ka, a descendant of Sophia, very similar to her, and the terrible.

Marfa Sobakina was expected, a very beautiful young woman. Irina Godunov outwardly appeared to be “easier.” Old Juliana features a large nose that gives to assume that first, beloved, wife, Grozny was such a feature. Evdokia Dmitrievna - soft facial features, consistent with the description of her character.


nowadays the girl with the lips, as Marfa Sobakina, would become the Queen of instagram.


Not all women Rurik was a healthy

a Maria staryts"ka, despite the origin, the signs of rickets - looks like she was malnourished and in the garden not a lot-то walked. From Irina Godunov had problems with the support-двигательным apparatus and, moreover, poorly developed pelvis from-за whom she could not bear children. It is unclear, congenital she has problems with the skeleton or a result of childhood illness - about this could say a genetic analysis. With regard to Sophia Paleologue, it was a very strong woman who, nevertheless, suffered from degenerative disc disease - which means that it can exasperate the pain in the head and neck. It hardly made her character softer.


Sophia Palaeologus was tormented by osteochondrosis.


Ivan the terrible really was surrounded by poisoners

As you know, Ivan had a feeling that his family secretly killed, pouring the poison, and the first victim of the poisoner fell his mother. Analysis of well-preserved hair Elena Glinskaya showed that the king was right - they shockingly large concentrations of mercury. Of course, this metal is used in cosmetics and medicines, but its amount in the hair Glinsky is that it hardly goes about slowly poisoning what-нибудь eyeliner or laxative.

as the terrible concentration of mercury (as well as arsenic and lead) in the dark-русой spit first wife the terrible, Anastasia Romanova, which many nobles are not loved for her influence on the king. As is known, after her marriage with her he became calmer and left the sadistic fun - and after her death as the chain broke and turned into that terrible, we know. Interestingly, poison-soaked clothing, which buried the Queen. Perhaps the poison she is not fed and nourished them some clothes to the Queen “inhaled”.

definitely poisoned and nine-year-old Mary Strickey, along with her father, a cousin of Ivan the terrible. Only did not in spite of the terrible and by his order - he dealt with possible competitors for the throne. But in the remains of Martha Sobakina poison not found, although Ivan was sure that his young wife, who died two weeks after the wedding, was poisoned. However, perhaps the poison was of vegetable origin - his modern means to ancient remains not recognize.


Little Marya Staritsky poisoned.

In the skull Irina Godunov preserved slice of the brain. His analysis also showed a high content in tissues of lead, mercury and arsenic (especially the lead), but in such doses, which, apparently, they got into the body of the medications. Apparently, gone to the nuns, the Queen tried to relieve joint pain ointments on the basis of lead and other minerals.

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