Vasilisa Melentyeva

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Vasilisa Melentyeva
Portrait by Nikolai Nevrev in 1886
Tsaritsa of All Russia (Disputed existence)
Tenure	1579
Predecessor	Anna Vasilchikova
Successor	Maria Dolgorukaya (Disputed existence)
Born	1560 or 1540 Ukraine or Kingdom of Georgia
Died	Unknown
Spouse	Ivan the Terrible
Dynasty	Rurik
Religion	Eastern Orthodox

Vasilisa Melentyeva (Russian: Васили́са Меле́нтьева) was the legendary or real sixth wife of Ivan the Terrible. The marriage (not authorized by the Church) may have been celebrated in 1575 or she was simply a concubine. Modern scholars now tend to consider her to be a 19th-century fraud.^[1][2][3]