Maria Miloslavskaya

Marija Ilyinichna Miloslavskaya (Russian Мария Ильинична Милославская; born April 1, 1624 † 2 or March 3, 1669 in Moscow) was the first wife of the Russian Tsar Alexis I and the mother of the Russian Tsar Feodor III, Ivan V. and. the Regent Sofia Alexeyevna.

Life

Marija Ilyinichna was a younger daughter of the boyars and diplomats Ilya Danilovich Miloslavsky and Yekaterina Fyodorovna Narbekowa. 1647 reached Tsar Alexei I. the prescribed age for marriage. He had the opportunity to choose his bride among hundreds of nobles. Selection of these women had the teacher of the Tsar, the boyar Boris Morozov, who arranged the marriage with Maria, and even the bride's sister, Anna married. Another sister, Irina, married Prince Dmitri Dolgoruky.

The marriages took both the boyars Boris Morozov and her father Ilya Miloslavsky great power influence. He used this in the period 1648-1668, the year he died, very. Marija died only a few months after her father.

Marija got thirteen children. Two sons survived to adulthood: the Russian Tsar Feodor III later to become. and Ivan V, which should exercise the power with his half-brother Peter I. She also had six surviving daughters. The third of them, Sophia Aleksevna was 1682-1689 regent of Russia.

Marija's sisters died without descendants. A distant cousin, however, Solomonida Mikhailovna Miloslavskaya, married Andrei Vasilyevich Tolstoy, and thus one of the ancestors of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. In the 20th century, the oldest of their descendants of Tsar Nicholas II received permission to add the name of the long dead Miloslawskis his own last name. These descendants are now known as the Tolstoy Miloslavsky.