Ivan the Terrible and his Oldest Son
Noble Blood
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The Crisis of the Rorik Dynasty
Vasily the third Ivanovich was 51 years old and childless. His first wife, Salomonia, had given him no male heirs after 21 years of marriage. He remarried a much younger Elena Glinskaya, less than half his age. The fate of the dynasty now rested upon the sex of the child that she would have.
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