Marfa Alekseyevna of Russia

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Tsarevna of Russia
Marfa Alekseyevna
Tsarevna of Russia
Tsarevna Marfa Alekseyevna of Russia
Born(1652-08-26)26 August 1652
Moscow
Died19 June 1707(1707-06-19) (aged 54)
Burial
Alexandrov Kremlin
Names
Russian: Марфа Алексеевна
HouseRomanov
FatherAlexis of Russia
MotherMaria Miloslavskaya

Tsarevna Marfa Alekseyevna Romanova of Russia (Russian: Марфа Алексеевна; 26 August 1652 – 19 June 1707)[1] was a Russian princess,[2] daughter of Tsar Alexis of Russia and Maria Miloslavskaya, sister of Tsar Feodor III of Russia and Tsar Ivan V of Russia and half-sister of Tsar Peter the Great.[3] She participated in the rebellion of her sister Sophia against Tsar Peter in 1698.

Marfa was one of six daughters of Tsar Alexis of Russia, along with her sisters Evdokia, Sofia, Ekaterina, Maria, and Feodosia. Unusually for the time and place, the Tsar wished his daughters to be well-educated and politically aware.[4]

In the Streltsi rebellion, rebels had planned to depose Peter the Great and place Sophia, his sister, on the throne.[5] Sophia, who had been regent during Peter's youth, was willing to cooperate and become ruler, and Marfa, who evidently knew of the plot, supported her.[6][7] Peter got wind of the plan, and launched a massive, vicious investigation.[8] Hundreds of people were tortured and executed, and, though Sofia and Marfa avoided that fate (as it was deemed improper to torture his sisters), Peter the Great punished them by forcing them to become nuns, and confining them in a convent.[9] Marfa was imprisoned ghe Convent of the Assumption (Ouspienski), and took the name Margaret.[10][11] She died at the convent eight years later.[12]

References

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  2. ^ Hellie, Richard (1999-06-15). The Economy and Material Culture of Russia, 1600-1725. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-32649-8.
  3. ^ Hughes, Lindsey (September 1986). "Sophia, "Autocrat of All the Russias": Titles, Ritual, and Eulogy in the Regency of Sophia Alekseevna (1682-89)". Canadian Slavonic Papers. 28 (3): 266–286. doi:10.1080/00085006.1986.11091835. ISSN 0008-5006.
  4. ^ Clements, Barbara Evans (2012-06-29). A History of Women in Russia: From Earliest Times to the Present. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-00104-7.
  5. ^ Grey, Ian (2015-11-18). Peter the Great. New Word City. ISBN 978-1-61230-922-4.
  6. ^ Tusa, Michael C. (2017-03-02). National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera, Volume II: Central and Eastern Europe. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-91582-3.
  7. ^ Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice Under the Tsars. Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0-271-04602-0.
  8. ^ Богословский, Михаил (2022-11-25). Петр I. Материалы для биографии. Том 2. 1697–1699 (in Russian). Litres. ISBN 978-5-04-512223-8.
  9. ^ Bushkovitch, Paul (2001-09-27). Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power, 1671–1725. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-43075-3.
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  11. ^ Pieralli, Claudia; Delaunay, Claire; Priadko, Eugène (2017-05-31). Russia, Oriente slavo e Occidente europeo. Fratture e integrazioni nella storia e nella civiltà letteraria: Fratture e integrazioni nella storia e nella civiltà letteraria (in Italian). Firenze University Press. ISBN 978-88-6453-507-4.
  12. ^ Федотов, Алексей (2022-05-15). Петр. Или как Донские Казаки помогали в становлении Московского Государя (in Russian). Litres. ISBN 978-5-04-161847-6.
  • Стромилов Н. С. Царевна Марфа, сестра Петра Великого: Историческая биография // Владимирские Губернские ведомости. Часть неофициальная. No. 3. 1883. С. 1.
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*raised to Grand Ducal rank in 1721