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