person
Maria Nagaya
also: Marie Nagoi, Maria Feodorovna Nagaya, the tsar's mother
Last wife of Ivan the Terrible and mother of the real Tsarevich Dmitri; brought from her convent to Moscow, she acknowledged the False Dmitri as her living son and later disowned him at his death.
Reading notes
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §361 Maria Nagaya
Maria Nagaya (Rilke: Marie Nagoi), last wife of Ivan the Terrible and mother of the real Tsarevich Dmitri; summoned from her convent, she publicly acknowledged the Pretender as her son---and later disowned him.