Marfa Apraksina

Marfa Matveyevna Apraxina (Russian Марфа Матвеевна Апраксина; * 1664 in Moscow, .. † December 31 1715jul / January 11 1716greg in St. Petersburg) was the second wife of Feodor III. Czarina of Russia.

She was the daughter of Matvei Vasilyevich Apraxin, a nobleman from Ryazan, and Domna Bogdanovna Lowtschikowa. On February 24, 1682 she married the widowed in Moscow for a year Tsar, but the marriage lasted only two and a half months, on May 7, 1682 passed away the Tsar. The marriage remained childless.

The former Empress lived for 33 years as a widow in St. Petersburg and died there in 1716 to a stomach illness. She was buried in the Peter and Paul Fortress. At her funeral on the orders of Peter the Great ( half-brother Feodor III. ) Was an ancient tradition that mourners should entrust the coffin abolished.

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• Centre d' Études of Dynasties Royales Européennes
• Individual section Semyonov: Christian dynasties in Europe ( Христианские династии Европы ), Olma Media Group, 2002, page 422 (in Russian )