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Catherine I
Read more...On the morning of 28 January 1725, following the death of Peter the Great, Russia woke to find that it had a new ruler – Catherine I. The unexpected had happened. A commoner, a foreigner by birth, an...
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Peter the Great
Read more...Peter the Great is probably the most famous member of the Romanov dynasty. He single-handedly changed the course of Russian history, turning the country into a powerful empire ranking alongside the o...
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Ivan V
Read more...Ivan V was the twelfth child and fifth son of Alexis Mikhailovich and Maria Miloslavskaya. He was born in Moscow on 27 August 1666. All his life, he had poor health. He suffered from scurvy, dizzy at...
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Regent Sophia
Read more...Tsarevna Sophia Alexeyevna was the sixth child and fourth daughter of Alexis Mikhailovich and Maria Miloslavskaya. She was born in Moscow on 17 September 1657. She received an excellent education fro...
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Feodor III
Read more...Feodor II was the ninth child and third son of Alexis Mikhailovich and Maria Miloslavskaya. He was born in Moscow on 30 May 1661 and crowned in the Dormition Cathedral on 18 June 1676. Educated by a ...
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Alexis Mikhailovich
Read more...Alexis Mikhailovich was the third child and eldest son of Michael Romanov and Eudoxia Streshneva. He was born in Moscow on 9 March 1629 and baptised by Patriarch Philaret. Until the age of five, he w...
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Michael Romanov
Read more...On 21 February 1613, representatives of the different classes gathered at the Dormition Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin to elect a new autocrat. They unanimously voted to offer the throne to Michael ...
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