Marfa Sobakina 1552-1571


 Marfa Sobakina 1552-1571


Marfa was the daughter of a merchant from Novogorov .

She was beautiful and won the bride challenge competition, periodically organized for tsar Ivan the Terrible ( his first two wives died and he had to keep looking).

She was chosen among a bunch of single ladies all willing and pretty, but soon after, she became increasingly ill.

She lost weight and could barely stand, yet the wedding took place only for her to die a few days later.

Ivan began executing left and right, but probably really happened was that Marfa was probably unintentionally killed by her mother, who gave her a potion to increase her fertility.

šŸ“ø a forensic facial reconstruction

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