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MSN Encarta - Peter the Great |
 | | A little later, Sofia was made regent with the justification that the sickly and feeble-minded Ivan was unable to rule. |
 | | From 1682 to 1689 Sofia and her associates governed Muscovy, as the Russian state was then known, with Peter I, together with the Naryshkin party, kept away from state affairs at the village of Preobrazhenskoye. |
 | | He had formed two disciplined regiments of soldiers, known as the guards, from among his friends while at Preobrazhenskoye. |
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