Elena Glinskaya, Grand Princess and regent of Russia

Elena Glinskaya

Grand princess of Moscow from 1526 to 1533

Elena Vasilyevna Glinskaya was the grand princess consort of Moscow as the second wife of Vasili III of Russia, and de facto regent of Russia from 1533 until her death in 1538. She was the mother of the first crowned tsar Ivan IV.