Michael of Russia

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Michael I Михаил Фёдорович
J. H. Wedekind's copy of a portrait
Tsar of all Russia
Reign	21 February 1613 – 13 July 1645
Coronation	11 July 1613
Predecessor	Vladislav (de jure, disputed) Dmitry Troubetskoy (as the head of the Zemsky government)
Successor	Alexis
Born	(1596-07-22)22 July 1596 Moscow, Russia
Died	23 July 1645(1645-07-23) (aged 49) Moscow, Russia
Burial	Cathedral of the Archangel
Spouses	Maria Vladimirovna Dolgorukova ​ ​ (m. 1624; died 1625)​ Eudoxia Lukyanovna Streshneva ​ ​ (m. 1626)​
Issue among others...	Tsarevna Irina Mikhailovna Alexis I Tsarevna Anna Mikhailovna Tsarevna Tatiana Mikhailovna
Names Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov
Kseniya Shestova
Religion	Russian Orthodox
Signature

Michael I (Russian: Михаил Фёдорович Романов, romanized: Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov; 22 July [O.S. 12 July] 1596 – 23 July [O.S. 13 July] 1645) was Tsar of all Russia from 1613 until his death in 1645. He was elected by the Zemsky Sobor and was the first tsar of the House of Romanov, which succeeded the House of Rurik.

He was the son of Feodor Nikitich Romanov (later known as Patriarch Filaret) and of Xenia Shestova. He was also a first cousin once removed of Feodor I, the last tsar of the Rurik dynasty, through his great-aunt Anastasia Romanovna, who was the mother of Feodor I and first wife of Ivan the Terrible.^[a]

His accession marked the end of the

Michael was eventually chosen for the throne of Muscovy due to his father's martyr-like captivity in Polish detention, as the patriotic mood swept the Russian elite after the expulsion of the Poles during the Time of Troubles. Michael's youth also contributed to his election as he was seen easy to be manipulated. On 21 February 1613, 700 delegates reached a consensus for Michael to be chosen as a compromise candidate as Tsar of Russia by the Zemsky Sobor of 1613.^[2][3]

The delegates of the council did not discover the young Tsar and his mother at the

According to Dunning, "The sixteen-year-old boy did not impress the boyars at all; he was poorly educated and not particularly intelligent. Nonetheless, those great lords consoled themselves with the knowledge that Trubetskoi would not become tsar and that Mikhail's ambitious and highly intelligent father, Filaret, was still in Polish captivity. One of the boyars allegedly said at the time, 'Let us have Misha Romanov for he is young and not yet wise; he will suit our purposes.' In fact, under the strong influence of reactionary boyars, even in preparation for his coronation, the deeply conservative new tsar revealed his true feelings about his subjects by snubbing many patriots simply because they were commoners." The tsar's family relationship with False Dmitry I, False Dmitry II, and Prince Wladyslaw was covered up, even the two years Mikhail spent in the Polish-occupied Kremlin with his collaborator uncle Ivan Romanov.^[2]

Michael's election and accession to the throne form the basis of the Ivan Susanin legend, which Russian composer Mikhail Glinka dramatized in his opera A Life for the Tsar.

In so dilapidated a condition was the capital at this time that Michael had to wait for several weeks at the

The most important result of the Truce of Deulino was the return from Polish captivity of the Tsar's father, Patriarch Filaret. Filaret became the effective ruler of Russia until his death in 1633.[2]^{: 311–313}

Reign

In the

Michael's reign saw some of the greatest territorial expansion in Russian history. ^{[citation needed]} During his reign, the conquest of Siberia continued, largely accomplished by the Cossacks and financed by the Stroganov merchant family.

Tsar Michael suffered from a