Praskovia Fyodorovna, the daughter of Fyodor Petrovich Saltykov and of a certain Yekaterina Fyodorovn or of Anna Mikhailovna Tatishcheva, became the future bride of Tsar Ivan in the traditional way - by selection from a parade of potential candidates before him (in the last use of this method to choose a tsarina in Russia).
She was the mother of Empress Anna of Russia. She played an important part as the most senior female of the Russian court in 1698–1712. Ivan V and Praskovia had five daughters.
One of them — Anna Ivanovna — would assume the imperial throne of Russia in 1730.
Another daughter, Catherina, became the mother of regent of Russia Anna Leopoldovna (in office: 1740-1741). Peter"s daughters Elizabeth (future empress) and Anna (mother of future emperor, Peter III) were also educated at Praskovia"s court.
Praskovia Fyodorovna lived as a dowager tsarina for a long time after her husband"s death - in Moscow and in Saint St. Petersburg. She had great respect for her brother-in-law emperor Peter I, for whom she held an open court in her palace, as Peter had no legal wife at that time, for which reason there was no place to welcome foreign guests: she thereby functioned as the first lady of the Russian court.
Tsarevna Maria Ivanovna (1689–1692) Tsarevna Feodosia Ivanovna (1690–1691) Tsarevna Ekaterina Ivanovna (1691–1733) Tsarevna Anna Ivanovna (1693–1740) Tsarevna Praskovia Ivanovna (1694–1731).
