Editing Ivan the Terrible (section)

=== Appointment of Simeon Bekbulatovich ===
In September or October 1575,<ref name="lloyd">{{cite book |title=Rude & barbarous kingdom: Russia in the accounts of sixteenth-century English voyagers |date=1968 |publisher=Univ. of Wisconsin Press |location=Madison, Wis. |isbn=0299047644 |page=166}}</ref> Ivan proclaimed [[Simeon Bekbulatovich]], his statesman of Tatar origin, the new grand prince of all Russia.{{sfn|Madariaga|2006|p=301}} Simeon reigned as a figurehead leader for about a year. According to the English envoy [[Giles Fletcher the Elder]], Simeon acted on Ivan's instructions to confiscate all of the lands that belonged to monasteries, and Ivan pretended to disagree with the decision. When the throne was returned to Ivan in September 1576<ref name="lloyd"/> he returned some of the confiscated land and kept the rest.{{cn|date=January 2025}}