Ksenia Shestova biography

The daughter of the nobleman Yves. Shestova and his wife Mary. She married Fedor Nikitich Romanov - later Patriarch Filaret, about a year. Fedor Nikitich and Ksenia Ivanovna Romanov had five son and daughter; Three elders - Boris, Nikita and Leo died in infancy for the first two - November 29 G. Her husband was soon tonsured, the children were sent to Beloozero; Here Ivan died in Ksenia Ivanovna was also soon tonsured under the name of Martha and was sharpened in Tolvui graveyard, in the current Petrozavodsk district.

Her imprisonment was not particularly strict, and local residents and clergy treated her with great respect. In March, Klin, Yuryevsky district. With the reign of False Dmitry Romanovs, the nun Martha and the children arrived in Moscow close to the throne. She lived here during the reign of Shuisky, whose wife, Queen Marya, born of Princess Buinosova-Rostov, was in friendship with the nun Martha; For a relative of Queen Prince.

Monki Martha and her son spent time in Moscow until the end of October G., through Yaroslavl, the monk Martha went to her family estate in the village of Domnino, Kostroma district; Here they spent the winter with his son and at the beginning of the city, the newly elected king with their parent met the embassy in front of the holy gates of the monastery, immediately refused and did not soon agree to enter the church, where, after prayer singing, requests to Mikhail were renewed to accept the kingdom, and to his parent to bless his son to the kingdom.

For six hours, the meetings continued before Martha blessed her son; Chronicle news says that Martha was the first to give in and exclaimed, turning to the image of the Virgin: “Beh, you, oh, the Mother of God, the Most Holy Theotokos! Under the young king, his uncle Ivan Nikitich Romanov, his cousin, prince of Heb. Cherkassky, and boyar Fedor Ivanovich Sheremetev.

But his parent used the greatest influence on the king. The influence of this can be concluded from the fact that the name of the “great old man” Martha is mentioned in many letters and from the circumstances associated with the marriage of C. Michael; Directly from the tsar’s mother came various charitable and economic orders. So, she took care of the fate of many tonsurers, whose fate was connected with the fate of the sovereigns that reigned before Michael, precisely about the monks of Daria - Anna Koltovskaya, the fourth wife of the Terrible, Elena - the widow of Shuisky, Alexander Saburova and Praskovier Solova, the widows of Tsarevich John; Then Martha awarded the people who had attention to her during the imprisonment in the Tolvui graveyards and the peasants of the village of Domnin, especially the relatives of Ivan Susanin.

Filaret, soon erected to the title of Patriarch. In and gg.

With the participation of the Great Monki took place in the city of Filaret, having familiarized himself with the circumstances accompanied by the matchmaking, he suspected intrigues from the Saltykovs; The young king, apparently, retained the location of his former bride-and in G. it was so annoyed by Marfu that she expressed an adamant disagreement of Mikhail to marry Chronom.

In September, G. Mikhail married, at the choice of his mother, to Princess Mary Vladimirovna Dolgorukova; The young queen died in January next year; in g. Mikhail Fedorovich entered into a second marriage with Evdokia Lukyanovna Streshneva. This marriage, apparently, did not move his son from his mother at all; The same people were the closest faces of both the old Martha and the royal couple.

Monki Martha died on January 27 of the year and buried in the tomb of the Romanovs, in the Novospassky monastery. Khrushchov I. Romanov ” - in“ Ancient and New Russia ”, G. Read more.