father house death_date succession death_place burial_place religion image_size consort birth_date spouse article_title name reign
alexei koltovski rurik 5 april 1626 tsaritsa of all russia convent of vedenski-tikhvinski convent of tikhvine eastern orthodox 190px yes before 1572 ivan iv of russia anna koltovskaya
 anna koltovskaya 29 april 1572 -- 1574
anna koltovskaya

anna alexeievna koltovskaya -lrb- '' Анна Колтовская '' -rrb- -lrb- before 1572 -- 5 april 1626 -rrb- was tsaritsa of the tsardom of russia and the fourth wife of tsar ivan iv of russia -lrb- `` ivan the terrible '' -rrb- .
after the sudden death of his third wife marfa sobakina on 13 november 1571 , ivan had difficulty in securing another marriage , due to the laws of the russian orthodox church prohibiting fourth marriages ; `` the first marriage is law ; the second an extraordinary concession ; the third is a violation of the law ; the fourth is an impiety , a state similar to that of animals . ''
ivan countered this by claiming he did not consummate the marriage .
he married koltovskaya , the daughter of alexei koltovski , a courtesan , on 29 april 1572 without asking the church 's blessing .
ivan organised a meeting in the church of the assumption , and gave a heartfelt speech which moved the prelates to tears .
they agreed to ivan 's marriage , although on the condition that he not attend church until easter , and that for a year , he spend time with penitents , and a year later , with common christians .
their honeymoon took place in novgorod , which only two years earlier had been decimated by ivan in the massacre of novgorod .
after two years of marriage , ivan began to tire of his wife due to her sterility .
he repudiated her , and sent her to the convent of vedenski-tikhvinski where she assumed the monastery name of daria .
only she and maria nagaya , the eighth wife of ivan the terrible , outlived the tsar .
