5 G odun ov w as supposed
to have been descended
from a certain Tartar
prince w ho cam e to serve
Ivan I («Kalita») in the first
o f the 14th century. The
G odun ovs had been for
generations free servants
of the Grand Dukes of
M uscovy. But Boris w as
the first G od u n ov to
be m ade a boyar. The
Czarina, M ania G odunova,
w as in fact the dau gh ter
of G rigory Luk'ianovich
Skuratov-Bel'sky,
nicknam ed M aliuta,
longtim e favourite of Ivan
IV and the m ost notorious
of the oprichniki
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