Solomonia Saburova

Solomonia Yuryevna Saburova (Russian: Соломония Юрьевна Сабурова; c. 1490 – 18 December 1542) was the grand princess of Moscow as the wife of Vasili III of Russia.Despite her shining beauty, exemplary morals and mild character, Solomonia's failure to beget an heir must have weighed upon Vasili's relations with his wife, who turned to foreign doctors for help.She was then moved to the Intercession Convent [ru] in Suzdal, one of the many votive churches commissioned by Vasily and his wife in supplication for the birth of an heir.Sigismund von Herberstein asserts in his Notes on Muscovite Affairs that she was forcefully taken to the convent, whereas the Russian chronicles tend to underline Solomonia's submission to the sovereign's will.Solomonia Saburova's relationship with husband Vasili III of Moscow was fictionalised in the opera Neprigozhaya by Ella Adayevskaya.
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