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Alexei I of Russia

Alexis I
Alexis I of Russia (1670s, Ptuj Ormož Regional Museum).jpg
Tsar of All Russia
Reign 12 July 1645 – 29 January 1676
Coronation 28 September 1645
Predecessor Michael
Successor Feodor III
Born (1629-03-19)19 March 1629
Moscow, Tsardom of Russia
Died 29 January 1676(1676-01-29) (aged 46)
Moscow, Tsardom of Russia
Burial Archangel Cathedral
Consort Maria Ilyinichna Miloslavskaya
Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina
Issue
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Tsarevna Sofia Alexeevna
Fyodor III
Ivan V
Peter I
Tsarevna Natalya Alexeevna
Full name
Alexei Mikhailovich
House Romanov
Father Michael
Mother Eudoxia Streshneva
Religion Eastern Orthodox
Full name
Alexei Mikhailovich

Aleksey Mikhailovich (Russian: Алексе́й Миха́йлович; IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksʲej mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ]; 29 March [O.S. 19 March] 1629 – 8 February [O.S. 29 January] 1676) was the Russian Tsar during some of Russia's most eventful decades in the mid-17th century. His reign saw wars with Poland and Sweden, schism in the Russian Orthodox Church and the major Cossack revolt of Stenka Razin. On the eve of his death in 1676, the Tsardom of Russia spanned almost 2,000,000,000 acres (8,100,000 km2).

Born in Moscow on 29 March 1629, the son of Tsar Michael and Eudoxia Streshneva, the sixteen year old Alexei acceded to the throne after his father's death on 12 July 1645. He was committed to the care of his tutor Boris Morozov, a shrewd boyar open to Western ideas.

Morozov's pursued a peaceful foreign policy, securing a truce with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and carefully avoiding complications with the Ottoman Empire. His domestic policy aimed at relieving limiting the privileges of foreign traders and abolishing a useless and expensive court offices. On 17 January 1648 Morozov procured the marriage of the tsar with Maria Miloslavskaya, himself marrying her sister, Anna, ten days later, both daughters of Ilya Danilovich Miloslavsky.


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