the palace and appointed him to the Boyar Council.In May 1546, Ivan temporarily moves the capital to Kolomna, and was in good spirits. One day, while hunting in the forests near Kolomna, about 50 men from Novgorod came to him with a petition. A fight broke out when he refused to take the petition and several men from each side were killed. Ivan had the incident investigated, and 5 boyars came up guilty. He had two of the boyars tortured and banished, and the other three boyars were executed immediately. Ivan thought that he had divine authority to rule because his ancestry had origins in Rome and Byzantium. Even the Russian people began to think of him as a divine emperor. On January 16, 1547, Ivan was coronated as the first ever Tzar of Russia. He also claimed the right to marry anyone he wanted, and he did so by marrying Anastasia Zakharina, a Russian woman and not a foreign princess that the rulers usually married. Soon after his wedding, 70 citizens of Pskov went to Ivan to plead for the removal of their governor. He cursed them, poured hot wine over their heads, set their beards on fire, and made them strip down and lie in the snow. He would've done more to them, but he received word that Moscow was burning and rushed off to see. This fire burned his palace and shook Ivan up. He heard rumors that the serdechniki had started the fire. He then gathered a large crowd of Muscovites and they claimed that Princess Anna Glinskaya, Ivan's grandmother, and her children had started the fire. He did not prosecute them, but from then on he never trusted them again. Sylvester, the new priest and an advisor of Ivan, told Ivan that the fire was a punishment from God and that he'd better start being kinder to his fellow man.Ivan's first child, a daughter Anna, was born on August 10, 1549, but she only lived less than a year. His daughter Maria was born March 17, 1551, but died soon afterward. In 1552, Ivan decided to go to war ag...
