Maria Nagaya

Maria Nagaya
"Tsaritsa Maria exposes the False Dmitry". Coloured lithograph in a sketch by V. Babushkin, middle of the 19th century.
Tsaritsa of all Russia
Tenure1581–1584
BornFebruary 8, 1553
DiedJune 28 1608 (55 years)
Moscow
SpouseIvan IV of Russia
IssueTsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich
DynastyRurik
FatherFeodor Nagoy
ReligionEastern Orthodox

Maria "Marfa" Feodorovna Nagaya (Russian: Мария Фёдоровна Нагая; February 8, 1553 - June 28 1608, Moscow) was a Russian tsaritsa and last and sixth (possibly eighth) wife of Ivan the Terrible.She was mother of Tsarevich Dmitry of Uglich .

Daughter of the okolnichy Fyodor Fyodorovich Nagoy-Fedets. According to historians and genealogists N.V. Myatlev (1872-1929) and Anat. G. Gryaznoy, the daughter or sister of Prince Vasily Semenovich Funikov- Kemsky was the wife of F.F. Nagoy , and therefore the mother of his children, for which Fyodor Fyodorovich received part of the Zvenigorod patrimony of the princes Funikov- Kemsky as a dowry.

Her uncle was the Russian ambassador to the Crimean Khanate , a diplomat and close confidant of the tsar, Afanasy Nagoy, which apparently contributed to the marriage.