Feodor, reputedly mentally retarded, took little interest in politics. He was of pious characher and spent most of his time in prayers. Having inherited a land devastated by the excesses of his father Ivan the Terrible, he left the task of governing the country to his able brother-in-law, Boris Godunov. When his only daughter died in infancy, the tsar approached a state of mental breakdown. His failure to procreate brought an end to the centuries-old dynasty and led Russia into the Time of Troubles.
Fedor Vasilievich warmly maintained that it was not subject to their jurisdiction, Ivan Egorovich maintained the contrary, while Peter Ivanovich, not having entered into the discussion at the start, took no part in it but looked through the *Gazette* which had just been handed in.
Peter Ivanovich tried to think of some means of doing so, but after reflecting for a while and, out of propriety, condemning the government for its niggardliness, he said he thought that nothing more could be got.
Fedor petrovich came in too, in evening dress, his hair curled *a la Capoul*, a tight stiff collar round his long sinewy neck, an enormous white shirt-front and narrow fl trousers tightly stretched over his strong thighs.
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