Kseniya Marfa Ivanovna Shestova ^2,3

  General Notes:

[Europe_New.FTW] [royalfam.ged] Carl M. Allstrom records in his "Dictionary of Royal Lineage" that Marfa "The Nun", the mother of Mikhail Romanov, the 1st Romanov Czar,was the illegitimate daughter of Ivan "The Terrible" and his mistress Mayvi. too, in the book "Kingdoms of Europe" it says that "The Nun" Marfa attended the coronation of her teenage son and blessed him. Earlier, the babe Mikhail was given to the Shestov Family to raise; and Mikhail's father, Fedor [Filaret] Romanov, the Bishop of Moscow, married Xenia Shestov, who became Mikhail's step-mother.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Record Change, 21 Apr 2003. ^2,3

Kseniya married Fedor Filaret Nikitich Romanov, son of Nikita Nifont Romanovich Romanov-Yurev and Princess Gorbataya Feodosiya Aleksandrovna, in 1585 in Moskva, Russia ².^,3 (Fedor Filaret Nikitich Romanov was born about 1565 in Moskva, Russia ^2,3 and died on 1 Oct 1633 in Moskva, Russia ^2,3.)