Alexis of Russia
(1629–1676)
BIRTH
1629
PLACE
Moscow, Tsardom of Russia
DEATH
January 29, 1676 (Old Style; February 8 New Style)
PLACE
Moscow, Tsardom of Russia
FAMILY
FATHER
Peter the Great
(1672-1725)
WIFE
Natalya Naryshkina
(1651–1694)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
EASTERN ORTHODOX
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich was the father of Peter the Great. Natalia Naryshkina was his second wife; Peter was their first child together.
EARLY LIFE
Alexis ruled Russia before his death in 1676. The Russian Museum records his second marriage to Natalia in 1671.
CAREER
DEATH
Tsar Alexis died in Moscow on January 29, 1676, in the calendar then used in Russia. A modern study of contemporary reports found accounts of fever and earlier dropsy or scurvy, but they do not establish a single medical cause. His son Fyodor III succeeded him.
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