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{{Short description|Tsar of Russia in 1605}}
{{Expand Russian|topic=bio|date=November 2021}}
{{family name hatnote|Borisovich|Godunov|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Infobox royalty
| type         = monarch
| name         = Feodor II
| image        = Tsar Fyodr II.jpg
| caption      = The earliest depiction of Feodor II, mid-17th century
| succession   = [[Tsar of all Russia]]
| reign        = {{OldStyleDate|23 April|1605|13 April}} &ndash; {{OldStyleDate|20 June|1605|10 June}}
| coronation   = 
| predecessor  = [[Boris Godunov]]
| successor    = [[False Dmitry I]]
| full name    = Feodor Borisovich Godunov
| house        = {{ill|House of Godunov|ru|Годуновы|lt=Godunov}}
| house-type   = Dynasty
| father       = [[Boris Godunov]]
| mother       = [[Maria Skuratova-Belskaya]]
| birth_date   = 1589
| birth_place  = [[Moscow]], Russia
| death_date   = {{OldStyleDate|20 June|1605|10 June}} (aged 15–16)
| death_place  = Moscow, Russia
| burial_date  = 1605; reburied 1606
| burial_place = Varsonofy monastery, Moscow; reburied 1606 in [[Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra]] (a separate Godunov Vault since 1783)
| religion     = [[Russian Orthodox]]|
}}

'''Feodor II Borisovich Godunov''' ({{langx|ru|Фёдор II Борисович Годунов|Fyodor II Borisovich Godunov}}; 1589 – {{OldStyleDate|20 June|1605|10 June}}) was [[Tsar of all Russia]] from April to June 1605, at the beginning of the [[Time of Troubles]].

==Life==
Fyodor II was born in [[Moscow]], the son and successor to [[Boris Godunov]]. His mother [[Maria Grigorievna Skuratova-Belskaya]] was one of the daughters of [[Malyuta Skuratov]], the infamous favourite of [[Ivan the Terrible]].{{sfn|Bain|1911}}

[[File:Fedor chertezh.jpeg|thumb|upright|left|Feodor Godunov's map of Russia, as published by Hessel Gerritsz]]
[[File:Makovsky False Dmitrys agents murdering Feodor Godunov and his mother 1862.jpg|thumb|upright|left|''False Dmitry's Agents Murdering Feodor Godunov and his Mother'', by [[Konstantin Makovsky]] (1862), [[Tretyakov Gallery]], Moscow]]

Physically robust and passionately beloved by his father, he received the best education available at that time, and from childhood was initiated into all the minutiae of government, besides sitting regularly in the [[Duma|council]] and receiving the foreign [[diplomat|envoy]]s. He seems also to have been remarkably and precociously intelligent, creating a map of Russia, which is still preserved.{{sfn|Bain|1911}}<ref>[http://www.nlr.ru:8101/exib/siberia/sibi4.htm Картографирование Сибири] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060222075116/http://www.nlr.ru:8101/exib/siberia/sibi4.htm |date=2006-02-22 }}</ref> 
It was edited with some additions by [[Hessel Gerritsz]] in [[Amsterdam]], in 1613, and had been reedited until 1665.

On the sudden death of Boris the sixteen-year-old was proclaimed tsar (13 April 1605). Though his father had taken the precaution to surround him with powerful friends, he lived from the first moment of his reign in an atmosphere of treachery. 
On 11 June (N. S.) 1605 the envoys of [[False Dmitriy I]] arrived at Moscow to demand his removal, and the letters that they read publicly in [[Red Square]] decided his fate.{{sfn|Bain|1911}} A group of [[boyar]]s, unwilling to swear allegiance to the new tsar, seized control of the [[Moscow Kremlin|Kremlin]] and arrested him. 

On June 10 or 20, Feodor was strangled in his apartment, together with his mother. Officially, he was declared to have been poisoned, but the Swedish diplomat [[Peter Petreius]] stated that the bodies, which had been on public display, showed traces of a violent struggle.<ref>Peter Petreius de Erlesund: ''Historien und Bericht von dem Groszfürstentumb Muschkow'', Leipzig, 1630</ref> Although aged 16, Feodor was known to be physically strong and agile, and it took four men to overpower him.<ref>R. G. Skrynnikov: ''Boris Godunov'', Moscow: Nauka, 1978/1983 and Gulf Breeze, Fla: Academic International Press, 1978/1982, {{ISBN|0-87569-046-7}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Bibliography of Russian history (1223–1613)]]
* [[Tsars of Russia family tree]]

==References==
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*{{EB1911|wstitle= Theodore (tsars)|display=Theodore s.v. Theodore II.|volume=26|page=765|first=Robert Nisbet|last=Bain|author-link=Robert Nisbet Bain}}
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