The attempts of the boyars to woo the Polish princess to Tsar Ivan were unsuccessful. King Sigismund had heard a lot about the debauchery of the young Moscow ruler and did not dare to give his beloved younger sister for him. The first wife of Ivan IV was Anastasia, the daughter of the noble boyar Roman Zakharyin. Ivan Vasilyevich became passionately attached to the beautiful Anastasia, who became the mother of his three sons. But the disgraced boyars, plotting against the powerful Zakharyin family, ruined the young queen... The second wife of Tsar Ivan was the proud and wayward daughter of the Circassian prince Temryuk. Second, but far from the last...