Gotthard Kettler

Gotthard Kettler

male, deceased (1587)
Gotthard Kettler became the last master of the Livonian Order — a branch of the Teutonic order in 1559, but when the Order came under increasing pr...
Malyuta Skuratov

Malyuta Skuratov

male, deceased (1573)
Grigory Lukyanovich Skuratov-Belsky, better known as Malyuta Skuratov (? - January 1, 1573) was one of the most odious leaders of the Oprichnina...

Bogdan Belsky

male, deceased (1611)
Bogdan Yakovlevich Belsky (? - 1611) was a Russian statesman and a close associate of Ivan the Terrible. It should be noted that Bogdan was not...
Antonio Possevino

Antonio Possevino

male, deceased (1611)
Antonio Possevino (Antonius Possevinus) (1534 or 1534 - February 26 1611) was an Italian clergyman who acted as papal legate and the first Jesuit...
Simeon Bekbulatovich

Simeon Bekbulatovich

male, deceased (1616)
Simeon Bekbulatovich (born Sain-Bulat, Саин-Булат) was a baptized khan of the Qasim Tatars. During the Oprichnina period, by a strange whim of I...
Balthasar Russow

Balthasar Russow

male, deceased (1600)
Balthasar Russow (1536 - 1600) was one of the most important Livonian and Estonian chroniclers. Russow was born in Reval (Tallinn). He was educated...

Andrey Kurbsky

male, deceased (1583)
Knyaz Andrey Mikhailovich Kurbsky was an intimate friend and then a leading political opponent of the Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible. His...
William Of Brandenburg

William Of Brandenburg

male, deceased (1563)
William of Brandenburg (1498 - 1563) was the Archbishop of Riga from 1539-1561. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, William was the son of...
Nikita Romanovich

Nikita Romanovich

male, deceased (1586)
Nikita Romanovich also known as Nikita Zakharyin-Yuriev (d. 23 April 1586) was a Muscovite boyar whose grandson Mikhail Feodorovich founded the...
Shahghali Of Kazan

Shahghali Of Kazan

male, deceased (1567)
Shahgali (1505-1567) was khan of Qasim in 1516-1519, 1535-1546, 1546-1551, 1552-1567 and Kazan in 1519-1521, 1546, 1551-1552. Shahgali was the...