Feodor I

Related Category: Russian, Soviet, and CIS History: Biographies

(Feodor Ivanovich)(fyô´dər, ēvä´nəvĭch), 1557–98, czar of Russia (1584–98), son of Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible). Weak and incompetent, he left the government in the hands of his brother-in-law, Boris Godunov, who became czar after Feodor's death.