Ivan Fyodorovich Koshkin (died 1427) was a boyar

Boyar

A boyar, or bolyar , was a member of the highest rank of the feudal Moscovian, Kievan Rus'ian, Bulgarian, Wallachian, and Moldavian aristocracies, second only to the ruling princes , from the 10th century through the 17th century....

 and Voivode at the court of Vasily I

Vasili I of Russia

Vasiliy I Dmitriyevich was Grand Prince of Moscow from 1389.He was the oldest son of Dmitri Donskoi and Grand Princess Eudoxia, daughter of Grand Prince Dmitry Konstantinovich of Nizhny Novgorod.-Domestic policy:...

 and Vasily II

Vasili II of Russia

Vasily II Vasiliyevich Tyomniy was the Grand Prince of Moscow whose long reign was plagued by the greatest civil war of Old Russian history....

. He was a son of Fedor Andreevich Kobylin and a progenitor of the Romanov dynasty.

He had four sons:

Ivan Ivanovich Koshkin,
Fedor Ivanovich Koshkin,
Jakov Ivanovich Koshkin, and
Zahari Ivanovich Koshkin.

Zahari Ivanovich Koshkin was an ancestor of the very first tsaritsa, Anastasia Romanovna

Anastasia Romanovna

Anastasia Romanovna Zakharyina-Yurieva was the first wife of the Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible and the first Russian tsarina...

, the wife of Tsar

Tsar

Tsar is a title used to designate certain European Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers. As a system of government in the Tsardom of Russia and Russian Empire, it is known as Tsarist autocracy, or Tsarism...

 Ivan IV of Russia

Ivan IV of Russia

Ivan IV Vasilyevich , known in English as Ivan the Terrible , was Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 until his death. His long reign saw the conquest of the Khanates of Kazan, Astrakhan, and Siberia, transforming Russia into a multiethnic and multiconfessional state spanning almost one billion acres,...

, nicknamed "the Terrible."

External links

History of Early Romanovs