Tsar Fedor Alekseevich, or poor lad: Dmitry Volodykhin

The personality of the Third Russian Tsar from the Romanov dynasty rarely attracted the attention of historians. Tsar Fedor Alekseevich (1676-1682) ascended the throne at the age of fourteen, but died, not having lived until twenty-one years. At the same time, most of his short reign, he was dead (even at the age of age, the prince received a severe trauma of the spine). He did not leave the heir by himself, and his death was marked by the terrible Streltsky uprising, as a result of which his sister Tsarevna Sophia took power in the country. But what is surprising: in six years of his reign, a lot has been done: the localistry was destroyed, the most important reforms in the field of education and culture began. Russia was vital for changes, and the king clearly understood this, starting the “soft”, the gradual Europeanization of the country. As the author of the book, the famous historian Dmitry Volodikhin, shows, it was a real alternative to the deafening Europeanization of Russia, launched by Fedor Peter the Great. Who knows, p …

Author
Volodikhin Dmitry Mikhailovich
Editor
Karpov A. Yu.
Publisher
Young Guard, 2013
Series
The life of wonderful people

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