Mother Uliana Ivanovna Died April 23, 1586 Grandchildren Michael I of Russia | Name Nikita Romanovich House House of Romanov | |
Spouse Varvara Ivanovna Khovrina-Golovina
Evdokiya Alexandrovna Gorbataya-Shuyskaya Father Roman Yurievich Zakharyin-Koshkin Children Patriarch Philaret of Moscow, Mikhail Nikititch Romanov, Aleksandr Nikititch Romanov Parents Uliana Ivanovna, Roman Yurievich Zakharyin-Yuriev, Roman Yurievich Zakharyin-Koshkin Similar People Patriarch Philaret of Moscow, Xenia Shestova, Michael I of Russia, Shuysky | ||
Nikita Romanovich (Russian: Nikita Romanovich; born ca. 1522, died 23 April 1586), also known as Nikita Romanovich Zakharyin-Yuriev, was a Muscovite boyar in 1563. His grandson Mikhail Feodorovich (Tsar 1613-1645) founded the Romanov dynasty of Russian tsars.
He was a son of the boyar Roman Yurievich Zakharyin-Koshkin , okolnichiy (who died on 16 February 1543, and who gave his name to the Romanov dynasty of Russian monarchs), and of Roman Yurievich's wife Uliana Ivanovna, who died in 1579. Nikita Romanovich became the brother-in-law of Ivan IV of Russia, who married his sister Anastasia Romanovna in 1547. His great-grandfather was Zakhary Ivanovich Koshkin.
Nikita Romanovich first appears in the historical record in 1547, when, on account of the tsar's wedding with Anastasia Zakharyina, he was promoted to spalnik and stolnik. He participated as a rynda (bodyguard) of the tsar in the unlucky campaigns against the Khanate of Kazan in 1547 and in 1548. Later he became the assistant to the Princes Vasily Serebryany and Andrey Nogtev-Suzdalsky with the rank of ololnichiy in the Livonian campaign of 1559.
He was granted boyar status in 1562. Four years later, following the death of his brother Daniil Romanovich, he became the governor of Tver. He commanded detachments of the Muscovite army during the winter campaign of 1572 in Novgorod and against Sweden. He also took part in the Livonian campaigns of 1573 and 1577.
Before his death (March 1584) Ivan the Terrible left his two sons, Fyodor and Dmitry, to the care of trusted associates. Until illness incapacitated him in late 1584, Nikita Romanovich led the regency, as the only uncle of the young tsar. He died on 23 April 1586 and was buried in the Novospassky Monastery.
He married twice - to :
He had two children by first marriage:
His children by second marriage were: