Biography of John loannovich
Ivan Ivanovich (28.04.1554 – 11.19.1582) – Prince, son of Tsar Ivan IV Vasilyevich the Terrible and his first wife, Anastasia Romanova. As heir to the throne, early began to appear alongside his father at the receptions of foreign ambassadors, and in its various missions, among other things, he accompanied his father and in Novgorod, in 1570, when John committed his massacre there. Prince was a participant and in that awful way of life, which led his father. November 4, 1571 he married to Eudoxia Saburova, and soon she was tonsured with the name of Alexandra in Suzdal convent prince married then to Paraschiva Nightingale, but after some time it had been ordered to confine Byelozero.
In 1582 he married a third time at the Helena Airport (later queen of the nun Leonid). We do not know exactly the circumstances that led to the John the Terrible, November 16, 1582, in Alexander suburb, in a fit of anger, struck the son of a stick in his head so strongly and carelessly that he had four days later, on November 19, has died.
As the news of some contemporaries, his father was angry at his son for what to him was manifested a clear love of the people, and because he is too fond of foreigners, on the news the other – the father of a son suspected of treason when he began to demand, during the military failures John, that his father handed him the command of troops, and finally, there is news that between father and son have collision family. Infant Prince John had: nevertheless, in 1609 appeared an impostor, Osinovik, who called himself the son of Prince John.
In 1579 Prince John, the request of the abbot of Siya Pitirim and the Archbishop of Novgorod, Alexander, wrote a Life of St. Alexander Siya with a word of praise to him and the service, but the product is not of great, value, or in literary terms, nor as a historical source.Prince just redid Life of St. Alexander had already written a monk Jonah and only releasing some interesting details of life, replacing them with conventional rhetorical phrase, he himself belongs properly only entry. Karamzin, IX; Solovyov, VI; Klyuchevskii. "Ancient Russian. Lives of the Saints": Seredonin, "Composing Dzhilsa Fletcher." VB