Nagoi

Nagoi

 

a family of Russian nobles known in Tver’ from the end of the 13th century and in Moscow from the end of the 15th century.

In the 16th and early 17th centuries, nine of the Nagois were boyars. Mariia Fedorovna Nagaia, who died in 1612, became the seventh wife of Ivan IV the Terrible in 1581 and was the mother of Tsarevich Dmitrii Ivanovich. After Dmitrii’s death she entered a convent under the name of Marfa. In 1605 she “recognized” the First False Dmitrii to be her own son, somehow saved by a miracle. The Nagoi family died out in the mid-17th century.