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  1. Born29 March 1629 · Moscow, Russia
    Died8 February 1676 (aged 46) · Moscow, Russia
    SpouseMaria Ilyinichna Miloslavskaya · (m. 1648; died 1669) · Natalya Kirillovna Naryshkina · (m. 1671)
    Early life and reign

    Born in Moscow on 29 March [O.S. 19 March] 1629, the son of Tsar Michael and Eudoxia Streshneva, the sixteen-year-old Alexis acceded to the throne after his father's death on 12 July 1645. In August, the Tsar's … See more

    Later reign

    In 1648, using the experience of creating regiments of the foreign system during the reign of his father, Alexis began reforming the army.
    The main direction of the reform was the mass creati… See more

    Assessment

    According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition:
    It is the crowning merit of the Tsar Alexei that he discovered so many great men (like Fyodor Rtishchev, Ordin, Matveyev, the best of Pet… See more

    Personal description

    In 1666, his doctor Samuel Collins described Alexis (then aged 37) as having "a sanguine complexion with light brown hair, his beard uncut. He is tall and fat of a majestical deportment, severe in his anger, bountiful, c… See more

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