Feodor III of Russia

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Feodor III
Фёдор III
Tsar of all Russia
Reign8 February (29 January O.S.) 1676 – 7 May 1682
Coronation18 June 1676
PredecessorAlexis
SuccessorPeter I and Ivan V
Born(1661-06-09)9 June 1661
Moscow, Russia
Died7 May 1682(1682-05-07) (aged 20)
Moscow, Russia
Burial
Cathedral of the Archangel
Spouses
Agafiya Semyonovna Grushetskaya
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(m. 1680; died 1681)​
Marfa Apraxina
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(m. 1682)​
Names
Feodor Alexeevich Romanov
Maria Ilyinichna Miloslavskaya
ReligionRussian Orthodoxy

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 Academy.

Life

Born in

Simeon Polotsky, the most learned Slavonic monk of the day. He knew Polish and even possessed the unusual accomplishment of Latin.[citation needed] He had been disabled from birth, however, horribly disfigured and half paralyzed by a mysterious disease, supposed to be scurvy.[2] He spent most of his time with young nobles, Ivan Maksimovich Yazykov [ru] and Aleksei Timofeievich Likhachov [ru
].

On 28 July 1680 he married a noblewoman,

Slavonic, Greek, Latin and Polish.[2]
The Tsar also promoted Westernization of Russia. Russia turned turned to Liberalization.

The Feodorean and the later

Vasily Galitzine, involved the abolition in 1682 of the system of mestnichestvo, or "place priority", which had paralyzed the whole civil and military administration of Muscovy for generations. Henceforth all appointments to the civil and military services were to be determined by merit and by the will of the sovereign,[4]
while pedigree (nobility) books were to be destroyed. Feodor III turned Russia closer to a Meritocracy.

Family

Fyodor's first consort, Agaphia Simeonovna Grushevskaya, shared his progressive views. She was the first to advocate beard-shaving.[5] On 11 July 1681, the Tsaritsa gave birth to her son, Tsarevich Ilya Fyodorovich, the expected heir to the throne. Agaphia died as a consequence of the childbirth three days later, on 14 July, and seven days later, on 21 July, the Tsarevich also died.

A portrait of Feodor III's second wife, Marfa Apraxina

Seven months later, on 24 February 1682 Fyodor married a second time

Moscow Uprising of 1682
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Depiction of Feodor III death

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Pre-reform spelling: Ѳеодоръ Алеѯіевичъ

Sources

  1. ISBN 978-0-253-00184-9
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  2. ^ a b Bain 1911, p. 765.
  3. ^
    ISBN 9781317895190
    . Retrieved 2019-01-27. The main sources for the population of the Russian state in the two centuries or so before 1897 are the ten poll tax censuses or revisions (revizii) held between 1719-21 and 1857-58 and the household tax census of 1678.
  4. ^ Bain 1911, pp. 765–766.
  5. ^ Bain 1911, p. 766.

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