Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov

After the liberation of Moscow from the Poles, a Zemsky Sobor was held, the purpose of which was to elect a new tsar. They immediately decided that the tsar should be his own, Russian. Mikhail was the nephew of the last tsar from the preceding Rurik dynasty, and almost everyone supported his candidacy. The ambassadors found him with his mother in Kostroma, in the Ipatiev Monastery. At first, the mother and son abandoned the royal throne, since Michael was young, and the state was ruined after the turmoil. His father, the future Russian patriarch Filaret, was at that time in Polish captivity, but upon his return to Moscow he agreed to be patriarch, then Mikhail also agreed to ascend to the royal throne. In July 1613, Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov was crowned king in the Assumption Cathedral in the Kremlin. The first years of his reign passed with the constant work of zemstvo councils. The king was still young and inexperienced. Until Mikhail's majority, the country was ruled by his mother, the Inokin Martha (Ksenia Ivanovna Shestova). The reign of Mikhail Fedorovich went under the sign of revival and the establishment of order. Treaties of "eternal peace" were concluded with Poland and Sweden on conditions that were quite favorable for Russia. The local government and the army were reorganized. Industry and science were booming: the first ironworks was organized and the German settlement was founded - a settlement of foreign engineers and military specialists. Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov died in Moscow (13) on July 23, 1645 from dropsy at the age of 49, and was buried in the Archangel Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin.