Irina Mikhailovna of Russia
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Tsarevna Irina Mikhailovna | |||||
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Born | 22 April 1627 | ||||
Died | 8 April 1679 | (aged 51)||||
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House | Romanov | ||||
Father | Michael of Russia | ||||
Mother | Eudoxia Streshneva | ||||
Religion | Eastern Orthodoxy |
Irina Mikhailovna (
Biography
Irina was
In 1640, Irina was engaged to marry Valdemar Christian of Schleswig-Holstein when she was 13.
Valdemar arrived in Russia for the wedding in 1644, but after arriving, he refused to convert to the Orthodox faith desppite the Tsar's influence. Valdemar was imprisoned in an attempt to change his mind, until 1645 upon the death of Michael I and Alexis I acceded to the throne.[3] Irina never married.
Later life
Irina was close to her brother, Tsar Alexis, who mentions her before his wife and children in his letters and seem to have regarded her as the first lady of the family. She exerted some degree of influence over him, but their relationship cooled down during Alexis' second marriage in 1671. After this, she spent more time on an estate which she had inherited from her grandmother, Xenia Shestova, outside of Moscow.
She devoted her life mainly on her estate, and showed support for the Old Believers, whom she on several occasions saved from execution.[4] In 1672, at the baptisim of Peter the Great, she and Feodor III of Russia became his godparents.
See also
References
- ^ "Музеи Московского Кремля - 2006 годДети - жители Кремля". 28 August 2012. Archived from the original on 28 August 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
- ^ Pushkareva, Natalia (1997). Women in Russian History: From the Tenth to the Twentieth Century. New York: M.E. Sharpe. p. 89.
- ^ Sebag Montefiore, Simon (2016). The Romanovs. United Kingdom: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 37–38.
- ^ "Wayback Machine". 13 December 2013. Archived from the original on 13 December 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
- Филина Е.И. "Дело" королевича Вальдемара // Российская государственность: Этапы становления и развития. Кострома, 1993. Ч. 1. С. 46–49.