List of Russian royal consorts explained

The Russian consorts were the spouses of the Russian rulers. They used the titles Princess, Grand Princess, Tsarina or Empress.

Grand Princesses of Vladimir

Yurievichi (1157–1331)

PictureName FatherBirthMarriageBecame ConsortCeased to be ConsortDeathSpouse
align="center"-Ulita Stepanovnaalign="center"-align="center"-114811571175 Andrey I
align="center"-Unknownalign="center"-align="center"-1175align="center"-align="center"-align="center"-Yaropolk III
align="center"-Maria Shvarnovnaalign="center"-c. 1158align="center"-align="center"-9 March/19 May 1205/1206Vsevolod III
align="center"-AgathaMichael of Chernigov
Grand Prince of Kiev

(Rurikids)
align="center"-align="center"-align="center"-1237Yury II
align="center"-Fedosia Igorevna of RyazanIgor Glebovich,
Prince of Ryazan
align="center"-1218align="center"-align="center"-align="center"-Yaroslav II
align="center"-AlexandraBryacheslav Vasilkovich,
Prince of Polatsk and Vitebsk

(Rurikids)
align="center"-1239align="center"-align="center"-align="center"-Alexander Nevsky
align="center"-Vasilisa or Vassaalign="center"-align="center"-align="center"-align="center"-align="center"-align="center"-
align="center"-Xenia of TarusaYouri Mikhailovich,
Prince of Tarusa
c. 1246126512711312Yaroslav III
align="center"-UnknownDmitry Borisovich,
Prince of Rostov

(Rurikids)
align="center"-align="center"-align="center"-align="center"-align="center"-Andrey III
Anna of KashinDmitry Borisovich,
Prince of Rostov

(Rurikids)
1280 8 November 1294130413182 October 1368 Mikhail of Tver
align="center"-Anastasia of Halychalign="center"-align="center"- c.1320align="center"-align="center"-align="center"-Aleksander of Tver

Grand Princesses of Moscow

Daniilovichi (1283–1547)

PictureName FatherBirthMarriageBecame ConsortCeased to be ConsortDeathSpouse
align="center"-Mariaalign="center"-align="center"-align="center"-align="center"-align="center"-align="center"-Daniel
align="center"-?Prince Konstantin Borisovich of Rostov
(Rurikids)
align="center"-align="center"-1297 before 1316 Yury
align="center"-Konchaka-AgafiaTogrilcha
(Borjigids)
align="center"-1316 1318
align="center"-Helenaalign="center"-align="center"-align="center"-align="center"-1 March 1331Ivan I
align="center"-Alexandraalign="center"-align="center"-133231 March 1340
husband's death
mid 1360s
align="center"-Aigusta Anastasia of LithuaniaGediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania
(Gediminids)
align="center"-Winter of 133331 March 1340
husband's accession
11 March 1345Simeon
align="center"-Eupraxia Feodorovna of SmolenskFeodor Sviatoslavich, Prince of Dorogobuzh and Viazma
(Rurikids)
align="center"-13451346
repudiated
align="center"-
align="center"-Maria Alexandrovna of TverAleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver
(Rurikids)
align="center"-align="center" colspan="2"-27 April 1353
husband's death
align="center"-
align="center"-Alexandra Vasilyevna VelyaminovaVasily Velyaminov, Mayor of Moscow align="center"-1345 27 April 1353
husband's accession
13 November 1359
husband's death
26 December 1364Ivan II
Eudoxia Dmitriyevna of SuzdalDmitry III, Grand Duke of Vladimir-Suzdal
(Rurikids)
align="center"-18 January 136719 May 1389
husband's death
7 July 1407Dmitry I
Sophia of LithuaniaVytautas, Grand Duke of Lithuania
(Gediminids)
c. 1371 21 January 1391 27 February 1425
husband's death
13 July 1453Vasily I
align="center"-Maria Yaroslavna of BorovskYaroslav Vladimirovich, Prince of Maloyaroslavets
(Rurikids)
align="center"-8 March 1433 27 March 1462
husband's death
4 July 1485Vasily II
align="center"-Maria Borisovna of TverBoris Alexandrovich, Grand Prince of Tver
(Rurikids)
c. 14424 June 1452 27 March 1462
husband's accession
22 April 1467Ivan III
Zoe PalaiologinaThomas Palaeologus, Despot of Morea
(Palaeologos)
c. 145512 November 14727 April 1503
Solomonia Yuryevna SaburovaYury Konstantinovich Saburov
(Godunov)
c. 1490 4 September 15056 November 1505
husband's accession
November 1525
marriaged annulled
18 December 1542Vasily III
Elena Vasilyevna GlinskayaPrince Vasili Lvovich Glinsky
(Glinski)
c. 1506/150721 January 15263 December 1533
husband's death

Tsarinas of Russia

Daniilovichi (1547–1598)

PictureName FatherBirthMarriageBecame ConsortCeased to be ConsortDeathSpouse
Anastasia Romanovna Zakharyina-YurievaRoman Yurievich Zakharyin-Yuriev
(Romanov)
15303/13 February 1547 7 August 1560Ivan IV
Maria Temryukovna
born Kučenej
Temrjuk of Kabardia1544 21 August 15611 September 1569
Marfa Vasilevna SobakinaVasiliy Sobakin155228 October 1571 13 November 1571
Anna Alexeievna KoltovskayaAlexei Koltovskialign="center"----29 April 1572 1574
repudiated by her husband (sent to monastery)
5 April 1626
Anna Vasilchikovaalign="center" style="background-color:#D3D3D3;" ----align="center" style="background-color:#D3D3D3;" ----January 1575
(the wedding wasn't authorized by the Church)
1576/77 repudiated by her husband (sent to monastery)
Maria Feodorovna NagayaFeodor Nagoyalign="center" style="background-color:#D3D3D3;" ----September 1580 or 1581
(the wedding wasn't authorized by the Church)
18 March 1584
husband's death
1608 or 20 August 1612
Irina Feodorovna GodunovaFeodor Ivanovich Godunov
1557158018 March 1584 16/17 January 1598
husband's death
27 October 1603Feodor I

Time of Troubles (1598–1613)

PictureName FatherBirthMarriageBecame ConsortCoronationCeased to be ConsortDeathSpouse
Maria Grigorievna Skuratova-BelskayaGrigory Lukyanovich Skuratov-Belskiy
(Skuratova-Belskaya)
align="center"----1570/15717 January 1598
husband's accession
align="center"----23 April [O.S. 13 April] 1605
husband's death
10 June 1605
Jerzy Mniszech
(Mniszech)
c. 15888 May 16068 May 160617 May 1606
husband's desposition
24 December 1614
Maria Petrovna Buynosova-Rostovskaya
born Ekaterina
Prince Peter Ivanovich Buynosov-Rostov
(Buynosov-Rostov)
c. 158617 January 1608align="center"----19 July 1610
husband's desposition
2 January 1626

House of Romanov (1613–1721)

PictureName FatherBirthMarriageBecame ConsortCeased to be ConsortDeathSpouse
Maria Vladimirovna DolgorukovaPrince Vladimir Timofeyevich Dolgorukov
(Dolgoruki)
1601 19 September 162417 January 1625Michael I
Eudoxia Lukyanovna StreshnyovaLukyan Stepanovich Streshnyov
(Streshnyov)
1608 5 February 162612 July 1645
husband's death
18 August 1645
Maria Ilyinichna MiloslavskayaIlya Danilovich Miloslavsky
(Miloslavsky)
162526 January 1648 2/3 March 1669Alexis
Natalya Kirillovna NaryshkinaKirill Poluektovich Naryshkin
(Naryshkin)
1 September 1651 1 February 1671 29 January 1676
husband's death
4 February 1694
Agafiya Semyonovna GrushetskayaSimeon Feodorovich Grushetsky
(Grushetsky)
166328 July 1680 24 July 1681
Marfa Matveyevna ApraksinaMatvei Vasilievich Apraksin
(Apraksin)
166424 February 1682 7 May 1682
husband's death
11 January 1716
Praskovya Fyodorovna SaltykovaFeodor Petrovich Saltykov
(Saltykov)
12 October 1664 9 January 1684 8 February 1696
husband's death
13 October 1723
Eudoxia Feodorovna LopukhinaFeodor Abramovich Lopukhin
(Lopukhin)
9 August 16696 February 16891698
divorce
7 September 1731Peter I
Catherine Alexeyevna[1]
born Marta Helena Skowrońska
Samuel Skowroński
15 April 1684
(New Style)
19 February 171222 October 1721
became empress
17 May 1727
(New Style)

Empresses of Russia

House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov (1762–1917)

PictureName FatherBirthMarriageBecame ConsortCoronationCeased to be ConsortDeathSpouse
Catherine Alekseyevna
born Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst
Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst
(Ascania)
2 May 1729 (New Style)21 August 17455 January 1762
husband's accession
22 September 1762
crowned as Empress Regnant
9 July 1762
husband's abdication & became Empress Regnant
17 November 1796
Maria Feodorovna
born Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg
Friedrich II Eugen, Duke of Württemberg
(Württemberg)
25 October 175926 September 17766 November 1796
husband's accession
5 April 179723 March 1801
husband's assassination
5 November 1828
Elizabeth Alexeievna
born Louise of Baden
Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden
(Zähringen)
24 January 177928 September 1793 24 March 1801
husband's accession
15 September 18011 December 1825
husband's death
16 May 1826
Alexandra Feodorovna
born Charlotte of Prussia
Frederick William III of Prussia
(Hohenzollern)
13 July 179813 July 1817 1 December 1825
husband's accession
3 September 18262 March 1855
husband's death
1 November 1860
Maria Alexandrovna
born Marie of Hesse and by Rhine
Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse
(Hesse-Darmstadt)
8 August 1824 16 April 18412 March 1855
husband's accession
7 September 18568 June 1880
Maria Feodorovna
born Dagmar of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
Christian IX of Denmark
(Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg)
26 November 1847 9 November 1866 13 March 1881
husband's accession
15 May 18831 November 1894
husband's death
13 October 1928
Alexandra Feodorovna
born Alix of Hesse and by Rhine
Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
(Hesse-Darmstadt)
6 June 1872 26 November 1894 16 May 1896 15 March 1917
husband's abdication
17 July 1918Nicholas II

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Notes and References

  1. At the beginning of her relationship with Peter, Catherine was known in Russia as Marta Samuilovna Skavronskaya. She converted to Orthodoxy in 1703, and took the new name Catherine Alexeyevna (Yekaterina Alexeyevna). Web site: Catherine I empress of Russia . Britannica . . 28 January 2022.