Yelena Sheremeteva

Before her marriage to the Tsarevich, his father had considered many women as a possible wife for his son, but had found most of them unsuitable for one reason or another.

The young Ivan's first and second wives were both thrown into convents on account of their apparent inability to have children.

However, on 15 November, the Tsar accused her of supposedly wearing immodest clothing and he began to beat her.

The Tsarevich Ivan soon confronted his father on the matter, and a heated argument ensued and only ended when the Tsar struck his son on the head with his staff.

However, unlike her two predecessors, she was not exiled far away from Moscow, but placed in a convent near the court, where she was treated in accordance to her status as a member of the imperial family.