Back Sofia Aleksejewna van Rusland AF صوفيا ألكسيفنا أميرة روسيا Arabic صوفيا الكسيفنا من روسيا ARZ Sofiya Alekseyevna AZ Соф’я Аляксееўна (царэўна) BE София Алексеевна Bulgarian Sofia Romanova BR Žofie Alexejevna Czech Софїꙗ Алєѯїѥвьна CU Sofia Alexejewna German
| Sophia Alekseyevna | |||||
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| Tsarevna of Russia | |||||
 1680s portrait | |||||
| Regent of Russia | |||||
| Regency | 8 June 1682 – 22 September 1689 | ||||
| Monarchs | Peter I and Ivan V | ||||
| Born | 27 September 1657 Moscow, Russia | ||||
| Died | 14 July 1704 (aged 46) Novodevichy Convent, Russia | ||||
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| House | Romanov | ||||
| Father | Alexis I | ||||
| Mother | Maria Miloslavskaya | ||||
| Religion | Eastern Orthodox | ||||
Sophia Alekseyevna (Russian: Со́фья Алексе́евна, IPA: [ˈsofʲjə ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvnə]; 27 September [O.S. 17 September] 1657 – 14 July [O.S. 3 July] 1704[1]) was a Russian princess who ruled as regent of Russia from 1682 to 1689. She allied herself with a singularly capable courtier and politician, Prince Vasily Golitsyn, to install herself during the minority of her brother Ivan V and half-brother Peter I. She carried out her regency with a firm hand. The activity of this "bogatyr-tsarevna", as Sergey Solovyov called her, was all the more extraordinary, as upper-class Muscovite women were confined to the upper-floor terem, veiled and guarded in public, and invariably kept aloof from any open involvement in politics.[2]
- ^ Родословная книга Всероссiйскаго дворянства
- ^ Robert K. Massie outlines the position of women in old Muscovy in Peter the Great, His Life and World, 1980, ch. "Old Muscovy", pp 31ff.