WI Boris Godunov is killed by Ivan the Terrible in 1581?

When Ivan the Terrible killed his own eldest son in 1581 Boris Godunov tried to stop him, but received blows from the Tsar's sceptre. WI Ivan had killed him too? How the absence of Godunov would change Russia in the late 16th century? And who (if anyone) would fill his role as the strongman of the country?
 
Well If I remember the little Russian history I know but was not Boris resposible for the Murder of Ivan the Terrible's last remaining son allowing for Boris himself to claim the throne
 
Well If I remember the little Russian history I know but was not Boris resposible for the Murder of Ivan the Terrible's last remaining son allowing for Boris himself to claim the throne

Well, there was this version, and there was other (the official one) claiming the boy stabbed himself during an epileptic seizure. Whatever was the real cause, Ivan's son wouldn't be sent with his mother in exile to Uglich - unless a similar decision is made by next powerful noble in the court (Vasili Shuisky? Feodor Romanov?).
 
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