Roman Zakharyin-Koshkin

Roman Yurievich Zakharyin (Russian: Роман Юрьевич Захарьин), also known as Roman Zakharyin-Yuriev (Russian: Роман Захарьин-Юрьев) and Roman Zakharyin-Koshkin (Russian: Роман Захарьин-Кошкин); c. 1500 – 16 February 1543) was a Russian okolnichy and voivode who is best known as the progenitor of the Romanov dynasty, which was named after him.

He was the father of Nikita Romanovich, a boyar, and Anastasia Romanovna, who would become the first Russian tsaritsa.

He was also the grandfather of Patriarch Filaret and Feodor I of Russia.

There is very little available information about him; it is known that he was a voivode in the 1530s, his wife was Juliana Fedorovna Karpova, daughter of Russian publicist and diplomat Fedor Ivanovich Karpov (d. 1540).

It was later found that he was between 178 and 183 cm (approximately six feet) tall and suffered from Paget's disease, which, according to historian Alexander Shirokorad, may have caused him to leave service as voivode in 1535.