His attempt to marry his daughter to Johan of Schleswig Holstein failed, and he refused an offer of personal union by Lew Sapieha.
His attempt to marry his daughter to Johan of Schleswig Holstein failed, and he refused an offer of personal union by Lew Sapieha. He was the most famous member of a family that, in the early fourteenth century, had migrated to Kostroma, and earlier in his life, this man took part in the Serpeisk campaign as an archer. He had been a member of the oprichnina, and was made konyushy or Master of the Horse. The support of patriarch Job was instrumental in this man's climb to power. His sister, Irina Feodorovna, was married to his predecessor, for whom this man and Vasili Shuiski acted as regent. After his death, his son Feodor would be killed by his enemies, and would be succeeded by the first of the false Dimitrys.  For 10 points, name this Russian czar and boyar of Ivan the Terrible, a subject of works by Pushkin, Mussorgsky, and Prokofiev.
His attempt to marry his daughter to Johan of Schleswig Holstein failed, and he refused an offer of personal union by Lew Sapieha.
Boris {Godunov}