The Romanov Women Who Ruled Russia

The last Royal line to rule Russia was the Romanov’s, out of this house six women ruled Russia. Sophia Alekseevna Romanov was acting

Regent over Tsars Ivan V and Peter I from 1682 - 1689. Peter I’s second wife Catherine I, would rule from 1725 -1727 after Peter’s death. Anne Ivanovna then ruled for ten years after the death of Peter II in 1730. For one year Anna Leopoldovna would be regent of her son Ivan VI.

Elizabeth Petrovna would take control in 1741 and rule for 21 years. The last woman to rule Russia was Catherine II from 1762 – 1796 after the death of Peter III. Each would come in to power in their own way, but all would rule in the tsarist tradition.

Tsarevna Sophia was born on September 17, 1657. The prospects of Sophia ruling Russia, with five brothers, was slight. Sophia however was tutored by Simeon Polotsky along with her brothers. Her middle brother Simeon died in June of 1669 and Aleksei the heir-apparent died in January of 1670. When Tsar Aleksei I died in January of 1676 the frail Fedor III became Tsar at fourteen. Some say this is when Sophia had her first taste of power as she was always at Fedor III side and that she even ruled through him. When Fedor III died four years later with no living

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She was tutored in German, French, religion, music, dancing and reading. Russia would gain control of the northern coast of The Black Sea after the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774 and 1787-1791. At the end of her reign finances were in disorder, money values had dropped, and fires, disorder and rebellion plagued the countryside.

Elizabeth released political prisoners of previous reigns and the exiled began to reappear in St. Once in Russia Sophia was tutored in Russian, and the Orthodox Church . Anne Ivanvona’s reign has been called prudent, beneficial, even glorious, but she was vindictive, cruel, and perverted. Catherine I, the Lithuanian born peasant was the

Sovereign of all Russia. The most successful domestic policy was the development of trade relations, and the recruitment and exploitation of foreign experts. Two of Peter I’s projects, The Academy of Science, and the plotting of the North-East sea passage by Captain Bering, were allowed to continue with Catherine I’s blessing. Catherine founded the Russian Medical College to provide health care for her subjects, the School of Mines to improve silver mining and the Smolny Institute a girl’s boarding school.

Elizabeth Petrovna (the daughter of Peter the Great and Catherine I) was born on December 18, 1709 in Moscow. She was orphaned by the age of three, and at twelve she was the skivvy for Pastor Gluck’s household in Marienburg, Livonia. Martha would be passed on to General Boris Sheremetev, then to Major General Alexander Menshikova a personal friend of the Tsar, and finely to Tsar Peter I. Because of

Catherine’s peasant birth and dependency on Peter I, she was confused and indecisive in her reign.

Sophia Augusta Fredericka, Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst was born in 1729 at the

Pomeranian seaport of Stettin, Prussia.

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