Person:Vasilisa Melentev (1)

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Name Vasilisa Melentev
Gender Female
Marriage 1579 to Ivan IV of Russia
Reference Number? Q2628155?


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Vasilisa Melentyeva (died 1579) was the legendary 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.

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  1.   Vasilisa Melentev, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.