;Moscow Baroque', which is linked to a delayed Russian Renaissance. Sophia was only able to introduce educational progress in narrow areas of Russian culture. The most successful domestic policy was the development of trade relations, and the recruitment and exploitation of foreign experts. In foreign affairs on May 22, 1684 the Kardis treaty was renewed with Sweden ending any quest for the Baltic's in Sophia's regency. The Treaty of Eternal Peace was signed between Russia and Poland on April 26, 1686, and Russia entered the Holy League against the Turks and Tartars. In the Far East the Treaty of Nerchinsk was signed between Russia and China over the Amur basin in August, with Russia retreating from the region. The Crimean campaigns of 1687 and 1689 both would fall short of their goals, even though Sophia and
             her party declared them victories. With the cover up of the Crimean campaigns, the supposed plot of Peter's life and the rumors of Sophia wanting to be crowned sovereign in her own right, Peter I and Ivan V had Sophia confined to the Novodevishy convent in 1689, Sophia was forced to take the veil in October 1698, after reports of again plotting Peter's death, even though unproven. Susanna (name after taking the veil) a.k.a. Tsarevna Sophia Alekseevna Romanov died on July 3, 1704.
             Martha Skavronska was born in 1683 in the Swedish province of Livonia, to Lithuanian parents. She was orphaned by the age of three, and at twelve she was the skivvy for Pastor Gluck's household in Marienburg, Livonia. In 1702 Martha married Johann Raabe a corporal in the local garrison, but was left behind when Russian troops were spotted near the village. She was forced to leave with the Russian troops, and was
             soon under the protection of Brigadier Bauer. 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. With t...