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Feodor or Fyodor III Alekseyevich (Russian: Фёдор III Алексеевич; [a] 9 June 1661 – 7 May 1682) [1] was Tsar of all Russia from 1676 until his death in 1682. . Despite poor health from childhood, he managed to pass reforms on improving meritocracy within the civil and military state administration as well as founding the Slavic Greek Latin Aca
The death of Tsar Feodor III of Russia on 27 April (7 May N.S.) 1682 triggered the uprising.The Naryshkin brothers of Tsarina Natalia Naryshkina availed themselves of the interregnum and persuaded the Patriarch to proclaim her ten-year-old son Peter as the new Tsar of Russia.
Michael was succeeded by his only son, Alexis, who in turn was succeeded by his eldest son of his first marriage, Feodor. [95] Following the death of Feodor, there were two candidates for the throne: his brother Ivan and his half-brother Peter, who were fifteen and nine years old, respectively. [95]
Feodor III: Marfa Matveyevna Apraksina: Matvei Vasilievich Apraksin 1664 24 February 1682 7 May 1682 husband's death: 11 January 1716 Praskovya Fyodorovna Saltykova: Feodor Petrovich Saltykov 12 October 1664 9 January 1684 8 February 1696 husband's death: 13 October 1723 Ivan V: Eudoxia Feodorovna Lopukhina: Feodor Abramovich Lopukhin
Upon Alexei's death, there was a period of dynastic struggle between his children by his first wife Maria Ilyinichna Miloslavskaya (Feodor III, Sofia Alexeyevna, Ivan V) and his son by his second wife Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, the future Peter the Great. Peter ruled from 1682 until his death in 1725. [7]
Ivan V was born in 1666 in Moscow, the youngest son of Tsar Alexis and Maria Miloslavskaya.Only two of his older brothers survived childhood; his eldest brother, Alexei, died aged 15 in 1670, therefore his second brother, Feodor, became tsar upon the death of their father.
Upon Feodor III's death in April 1682, taking advantage of his popularity among the Streltsy, Khovansky helped to dismiss the Miloslavsky family from power. He engineered the great Streltsy uprising (May 15 to May 17, 1682), during which their old and unpopular leader, Prince Mikhail Dolgorukov , was murdered and Khovansky named his successor.
A year later, Feodor became Patriarch Filaret of Moscow, or rather was confirmed in the position to which he was previously controversially named by the pretender False Dmitriy II. Filaret subsequently began to play a large role in the ruling of Russia, lasting until his death in 1633.