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 | | For example, the two sisters Hamilton, who lived in the Nemetskaia Sloboda (Moscow), married Russians, one the Tsar’s favorite and chief Boyar, Artamon Sergeevich Matveev (1625–1682), and the other Fedor Poluektovich Naryshkin. |
 | | The Scottish wife of Matveev brought up and educated Natalya Kirillovna Naryshkina according to the free manners of the Scots, allowing her to receive male visitors, a practice quite horrible to those accustomed to the cloistered seclusion of women. |
 | | But on 21st January 1672, Tsar Aleksei Michailovich Romanov wedded Natalia Naryshkina, and she became mother of Peter the Great. |
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