Anastasia Romanovna Zakharyina-Yurieva

Anastasia Romanovna Zakharyina-Yuryeva (1530 - 1560) was the first wife of Ivan the Terrible and the first Russian Tsarina. “This Tsarina was so wise, virtuous, pious and influential that all her subordinates respected and loved her. The Grand Duke was young and quick-tempered, but she ruled him with amazing meekness and intelligence. "
So wrote the English traveler Dorset, who visited the Moscow Tsar. Thanks to the marriage of Anastasia, the rise of the Romanov family took place, and after the suppression of the Moscow line of Rurikovich in 1598, close relationship with the last Tsar Fedor gave rise to the Romanovs to claim the throne. Elected in 1613, the first tsar from the house of the Romanovs, Mikhail Fedorovich, was the grand-nephew of Anastasia Romanovna, the grandson of her brother Nikita. Thus, the patronymic of Ivan the Terrible's wife, Romanov, became the royal family name for three hundred years later. On August 20, 2010, the Head of the Russian Imperial House, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna Romanova, approved an order in honor of Tsarina Anastasia to reward the loyal daughters of the fatherland who distinguished themselves in the fields useful to the state.