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| Sophia Alekseyevna | |||||
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| Tsarevna of Russia | |||||
 1680s portrait | |||||
| Regent of Russia | |||||
| Regency | 8 June 1682 – 22 September 1689 | ||||
| Monarchs | Peter I and Ivan V | ||||
| Born | 27 September 1657 Moscow, Russia | ||||
| Died | 14 July 1704 (aged 46) Novodevichy Convent, Russia | ||||
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| House | Romanov | ||||
| Father | Alexis I | ||||
| Mother | Maria Miloslavskaya | ||||
| Religion | Eastern Orthodox | ||||
Sophia Alekseyevna (Russian: Со́фья Алексе́евна, IPA: [ˈsofʲjə ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvnə]; 27 September [O.S. 17 September] 1657 – 14 July [O.S. 3 July] 1704[1]) was a Russian princess who ruled as regent of Russia from 1682 to 1689. She allied herself with a singularly capable courtier and politician, Prince Vasily Golitsyn, to install herself during the minority of her brother Ivan V and half-brother Peter I. She carried out her regency with a firm hand. The activity of this "bogatyr-tsarevna", as Sergey Solovyov called her, was all the more extraordinary, as upper-class Muscovite women, confined to the upper-floor terem and veiled and guarded in public, invariably were kept aloof from any open involvement in politics.[2]
- ^ Родословная книга Всероссiйскаго дворянства
- ^ Robert K. Massie outlines the position of women in old Muscovy in Peter the Great, His Life and World, 1980, ch. "Old Muscovy", pp 31ff.
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