Talk:Boris Godunov

message: The Anglicization of the Russian name Feodor into the English name Theodore is exceedingly silly. I've changed all mentions of "Theodore" in this article to "Feodor" to keep it in alignment with the usage in the rest of Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.180.136.39 (talk) 08:30, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You should adress your concerns to the editors of 1911 Encyclopedia, whence the article is taken. --Ghirla | talk 08:32, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Since when is Theodore an English name? It hasn't stemmed from Anglo-Saxon, has it?--OlKob (talk) 11:09, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Theodore vs Feodor

message: I am aware that the text was taken from the Encyclopedia Britannica from 1911, yet I should like to point out that Pushkin was inspired by Shakespeare's "Richard III" rather than "Macbeth". This appears in the opening scene where Boris lets peers and paupers woo him into accepting the crown as well as in the motive of the murdered child, the rightful heir to the throne. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anneliese Krützfeldt (talk • contribs) 17:50, 4 August, 2007 (UTC)
An interesting point.  But I think a good case could also be made for "Macbeth", whose main character (unlike Richard) was crippled by guilt. Elphion (talk) 22:44, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Shakespeare, Pushkin and Boris Godunov

message: Something's wrong (or at least confusing) in the dates reported toward the end of the article.  Boris's date of death is given as April 13/23, 1605; this is presumably a Julian/Gregorian distinction, since the difference in 1605 amounted to 10 days.  But Fyodor's death is given as June 10/July 20, 1605, with no explanation for the discrepancy, and Xenia's birth year given with a much wider divergence as 1582/1591. Elphion (talk) 19:57, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Dates

message: "In 1580 the Tsar chose Irina (Alexandra) Feodorovna Godunova (1557 – October 26/November 23, 1603), the sister of Godunov, to be the wife of his son and heir, the fourteen year old Tsarevich Feodor Ivanovich (1557–1598);"
As far as I know, 1580 - 1557 = 23, not fourteen.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.21.124.189 (talk) 16:56, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 1580 - 1557 = ?

message: Could someone re-write this article in English? There are many examples of tortured syntax.Dennis Slavin (talk) 21:16, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Prose

message: He [Godunov] supported an anti-Turkish faction in the Crimea and gave the emperor subsidies in his war against the sultan
Which emperor is that? Did Crimea have an emperor? Who was it?
Top.Squark (talk) 14:35, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which emperor? 

message: "Boris was one of the greatest of the Russian tsars. But his great qualities were overshadowed by paranoia. His fear of possible pretenders induced him to forbid the leading boyars to marry". First off, who would claim this man to be among the very greatest rulers of Russia, or even in the top third? The only truly significant thing that happened in his reign was that Russia tottered to the brink of the abyss and then fell over. Apart from 1812, there was no point between 1560 and 1900 when the Russian state came so close to final termination as in the years beween 1604 and 1613. 
Second, whose paranoia?if it was Boris' paranoia, we need to find out how he could be a great ruler if afflicted by paranois. And if it was the paranois of the boyars, or the people, how do we know theirs was a misreading of events and not an accurate view.
Thirdly, a source is required for the statement that Boris was so scared of pretenders and impostors he would forbid the nobility toi marry?? In a feudal state, there is no way more surefire to destroy the state than to try to push the nobility to extinction or to gravely antagonize it. A monarch in that kind of state can't normally go about exterminating the nobility of the land, or making sure it will disappear. Not unless he is strong enough to attempt absolute monarchy, something Boris never was. Strausszek (talk) 18:09, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blatantly POV or just ill-informed?