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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
Depiction of Feodor on the Tsar Cannon. Feodor was only the nominal ruler: his wife's brother and trusted minister Boris Godunov legitimized himself, after Ivan IV's death, as the de facto regent for the weak and disabled Feodor. [28] [29] [21] As a result, the government was mainly in the hands of the boyars and Feodor's brother-in-law. [30]
A group of boyars, unwilling to swear allegiance to the new tsar, seized control of the Kremlin and arrested him. On June 10 or 20, Feodor was strangled in his apartment, together with his mother. Officially, he was declared to have been poisoned, but the Swedish diplomat Peter Petreius stated that the bodies, which had been on public display ...
Tsar Feodor I was the second adult son of Ivan the Terrible, the first tsar of Russia. Feodor's elder brother, Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich, was the heir apparent; Feodor was never considered a serious candidate for the Russian throne. However, Tsarevich Ivan was allegedly killed in anger by his father on 19 November 1581, making Feodor the new ...
Later, a large Russian army under the leadership of Tsar Feodor I of Russia invaded Ingria. The size of this army has been said to have been between 30,000 to 100,000 men strong. [ 4 ] [ 2 ] Jama fell on 27 January after a Swedish capitulation, resulting in all of western Ingria falling into Russian control, and Feodor would consequently march ...
The Time of Troubles came to a close with the election of Michael Romanov as tsar in 1613. [95] Michael officially reigned as tsar, though his father, the patriarch Philaret (died 1633) initially held de facto power. However, Michael's descendants would rule Russia, first as tsars and later as emperors, until the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Feodor I 1557–1598 Tsar of All Russia r. 1584–1598: Dmitry of Russia 1552–1553: Ivan of Russia 1554–1581: Dmitry of Uglich 1582—1591 or 1582–1606: Vasili IV Tsar of Russia 1552–1612 r. 1606–1610: Michael I 1596–1645 Tsar of All Russia r. 1613–1645: Feodor II 1589–1605 Tsar of Russia r. 1605: Xenia of Russia 1582–1622 ...
Boris Feodorovich Godunov (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ d ən ɒ f, ˈ ɡ ʊ d ən ɒ f /; [1] Russian: Борис Фёдорович Годунов; 12 August [O.S. 2 August] 1552 [2] – 23 April [O.S. 13 April] 1605) [3] [4] was the de facto regent of Russia from 1585 to 1598 and then tsar from 1598 to 1605 following the death of Feodor I, the last of the Rurik dynasty.