Background
The only son of Andrey of Staritsa and Princess Euphrosyne Khovanskaya, Vladimir spent his childhood under strict surveillance in Moscow. In 1542, he was reinstated in his father"s appanages, Staritsa and Vereya.
The only son of Andrey of Staritsa and Princess Euphrosyne Khovanskaya, Vladimir spent his childhood under strict surveillance in Moscow. In 1542, he was reinstated in his father"s appanages, Staritsa and Vereya.
To their dismay, the tsar rapidly recovered, but a great change took place in his behaviour and manners. He summoned Vladimir to Moscow and signed with him a treaty whereby Vladimir was to live in Moscow with a small retinue and avoid contacts with Ivan"s boyars. After Vladimir"s mother was forced to take the veil and his boyars exiled, Ivan permitted Vladimir to marry Princess Eudoxia Romanovna Odoevskaya in April 1555.
In 1564 the Oprichniks burnt Vladimir"s palace in Moscow, and most of his lands were confiscated into Oprichnina.
The extermination of Vladimir"s family precipitated the extinction of the Rurik Dynasty and the dynastic crisis known as the Time of Troubles. Vladimir"s only surviving daughter, Maria, was married in 1573 to king Magnus of Livonia (son of Christian III of Denmark).
Upon her husband"s death, she was summoned from Courland to the court of Boris Godunov and forced to take the veil in a convent adjacent to the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra. Her subsequent fate is not documented.