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	AllRefer.com - Sophia Alekseyevna (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Sophia Alekseyevna[sO´fyu ulyiksyA´yuvnu] Pronunciation Key, 1657–1704, regent of Russia (1682–89); daughter of Czar Alexis by his first wife and sister of Czar Feodor III.
		Supported by the streltsi (semimilitary formations in Moscow), she seized power shortly after Feodor's death (1682) and was proclaimed regent during the minority of her retarded brother, Ivan V, and of her half brother, Peter I (Peter the Great), who reigned jointly.
		Sophia wished to be crowned czarina in her own right, but she lacked sufficient support among the nobility and clergy.
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	Royal Russia - Tsarevna Sophia Alekseyevna Romanova
		Sophia was born in Moscow on 17 September, 1657.
		Sophia's image was struck on Russian coins from 1684 onwards and she assumed the title of autocrat in 1686.
		Sophia's dream of ruling Russia on her own was thwarted by Peter the Great, who pursued his own independent line after marrying in January 1689.
	www.angelfire.com /pa/ImperialRussian/royalty/russia/tsar04.html (356 words)

	Banff and Buchan Arts Forum - Art in the Environment - Artefact Details
		He visited Britain in 1686, and in 1687 and 1689 took part as quartermaster-general in expeditions against the Tatars in the Crimean region, being made full general for his services.
		On the breaking out of the revolution in Moscow in 1689, Gordon with the troops he commanded virtually decided events in favor of the tsar Peter I, and against the tsarevna Sophia Alekseyevna.
		He was therefore during the remainder of his life in high favor with the tsar, who confided to him the command of his capital during his absence from Russia, employed him in organizing his army according to the European system; and latterly raised him to the rank of general-in-chief.
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	Sophia Alekseyevna
		Sophia was the daughter of Tsar Alexis and Alexis's first wife, Maria Liyanov Miroslavkaya.
		Sophia was also the sister of Fyodor III, who got the throne in 1676.
		Sophia attempted to sieze the throne for her self, however she was defeated by Peter who put her in a convent in Moscow.
	www.asij.ac.jp /elementary/projects/4-c/chinaweb/song/sophia.html (88 words)

	Peter I of Russia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Streltsy uprising of April-May 1682 made it possible for Sophia, the Miloslavskys [the clan of Ivan], and their allies, to insist that Peter and Ivan be proclaimed joint czars, with Ivan being acclaimed as the senior of the two.
		By early middle age Peter himself came to associate Sophia with the dark forces of opposition, forgetting [as do many historians] that in the seven years of her Regency that Peter and his mother, while pushed out of the scene, were never threatened nor harmed.
		Unfortunately for Sophia, Peter, warned by the Streltsy, escaped in the middle of the night to the impenetrable monastery of Troitsky; there he slowly gathered his adherents and others, who perceived he would win the power struggle.
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	Peter the Great
		Sophia chooses a highly placed priest to be her spy in the inner circle.
		Sophia, with her lover Prince Vasily Golitsyn, decide to send two peasant armies of a total of 100,000 men to attack the Tartar stronghold at the fortress at Azov.
		Sophia is shaken by the huge loss but she still puts an award around Golitsyn's neck.
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		Sophia insisted that Peter and Ivan be proclaimed joint czars, with Ivan being acclaimed as the senior of the two.
		Sophia acted as regent during the minority of the two sovereigns and exercised all power.
		Sophia would sit behind the throne and listen as Peter conversed with nobles, also feeding him information and giving him responses to questions and problems.
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	Russia - MSN Encarta
		A large factor in this investiture of Moscow as a holy, imperial city was the marriage in 1472 of Grand Prince Ivan III Vasilyevich to Zoë (Sophia), niece of the last Byzantine emperor.
		His half-brother, Peter the Great, was named Tsar (Peter I), but Peter’s older half-sister, Sophia Alekseyevna, succeeded in having her own brother, the weak-minded Ivan V, declared Senior Co-Ruler, with herself as Regent.
		After an attempt to deprive Peter of his right to the throne and, this failing, to assassinate both him and his mother, Sophia was forced to resign all power in 1689.
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		But one of Aleksei's daughters by his first marriage, Sophia Alekseyevna, led a rebellion of the Streltsy (Russia's Ã©lite military corps).
		Sophia insisted that Peter and Ivan be proclaimed joint Tsars, with Ivan being acclaimed as the senior of the two.
		She was therefore overthrown, with Peter I and Ivan V continuing to act as co-Tsars.
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	Novodevichy Convent and maps of Moscow
		Most of them they date from the 1680, when the convent was restored completely in the instance of the managing one Sophia Alexeyevna (that, ironically, would be imprisoned there subsequent).
		The walls and the incarnate crown-towers, two high on the churches of doors, a refectory, and the residential rooms that all were designed in the style Baroque Muscovite, as fits to suppose for a certain one Peter Potapov.
		A to stop belltower slender, to commission also by Sophia, was built in six levels to a height of 72 meters, it doing the highest structure in Moscow of the 18th century (after Ivan the Great bell tower).
	www.europe-top100.com /Moscow/Novodevichy-Convent-Moscow.php (1298 words)

	Sophia
		The Hagia Sophia church in Constantinople (meaning “Holy Wisdom) led to the several churches called St. Sophia’s (although there is no St. Sophia).
		Sophia dropped out of fashion at the end of the 19th century, but was revived again at the end of the 20th (possibly due to the fame of actress Sophia Loren).
		Sophia of the Palatinate (Sophie Von der Pfalz) (1630-1714)
	www.geocities.com /edgarbook/names/s/sophia.html (177 words)

	Peter the Great - MSN Encarta
		After Tsar Alexis’s successor, Tsar Fyodor III Alekseyevich, died childless, rivalries between the clans of Alexis’s first (Maria Miloslavsky) and second wives led to a dynastic crisis.
		Following bloody clashes in Moscow, Peter was crowned in June 1682 as “second tsar” jointly with his elder, but severely handicapped, half-brother Ivan V. His half-sister Sophia Alekseyevna (1657-1704) acted as regent.
		Peter’s party overthrew Sophia in 1689 on the grounds that she had overstepped her authority.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563341/Peter_the_Great.html (1295 words)

	Sofias of Yore
		She brutally eliminated her opponents and ruled autocratically with her lover Vasily V. Gallitzin.
		After an attempted revolt of the streltsi, Peter forced her (1689) to take the veil." Blah Blah Blah...
		Three days after the death of the daughters, Sophia passed peacefully away while praying by their tomb.
	www.sofieloafy.net /sofiasofyore.htm (538 words)

	The first Romanovs
		Sophia (Sofya Alekseyevna) then became regent, and made her lover, Vasilii Golitsyn, her chief advisor.
		Golitsyn was eager to improve ties with the West, and negotiated a peace treaty with Poland (1686) confirming the Truce of Andrusov.
		Sophia was sent to a nunnery and Peter regained power.
	faculty.history.wisc.edu /sommerville/351/351-102.htm (1782 words)

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		Extremely intelligent and determined, Sophia knew she could never be happy with the ordinary fate of Russian Tsarevna.
		When Peter turned 17, Sophia understood that she would soon be deprived of her power so she decided to incite an uprising.
		Sophia was still corresponding with them from the convent, hoping someday to get her power back.
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	sophia - OneLook Dictionary Search
		SOPHIA, Sophia, Sophia : E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook [home, info]
		SOPHIA : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
		Phrases that include sophia: sophia loren, clemence sophia harned lozier, hagia sophia cathedral of, sophia alekseyevna, sophia charlotte, more...
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		One result of Sophia's overt exclusion of Peter from the government was that he did not receive the usual education of a Russian tsar; he grew up in a free atmosphere instead of being confined within the narrow bounds of a palace.
		Sophia and her faction tried to use it to their own advantage for another coup d'état, but events this time turned decisively in Peter's favor.
		He removed Sophia from power and banished her to the Novodevichy convent; she was forced to become a nun after a streltsy rebellion in 1698.
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	Sophia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sophia or Sophie is a common name that comes from the Greek word s?f?a, and its older form sophos (s?f??), meaning ("wisdom"), that may refer to:
		Sophia is a 2006 EP by the band The Crüxshadows
		SOPHIA a vehicle from the Blaster Master video-game series
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	Compose a one
		Peter had returned to Russia in 1698 at the news of a military revolt allegedly instigated by Sophia Alekseyevna.
		He took drastic vengeance on his opponents and forced Sophia into a convent.
		On the day after his return, Peter personally cut off the beards of his nobles and shortly thereafter ordered them to replace their long robes and conical hats with Western dress.
	web.sbu.edu /history/tschaeper/Hist101/101www8thPeterGr.html (1376 words)

	ipedia.com: Peter I of Russia Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He was acclaimed "Tsar" of Russia in 1682, alongside his half-brother Ivan V, but for the first seven years of their reign, their sister Sophia Alekseyevna held the reins as regent.
		In 1689, Peter and his supporters forced Sophia to resign as regent and enter a convent.
		Peter and Ivan then shared the throne amicably until Ivan, an invalid, died in 1696.
	www.ipedia.com /peter_i_of_russia.html (1328 words)

	Peter the Great
		Following Feodor's death in 1682, a bloody revolution ensued over the succession of Peter or his mentally retarded brother Ivan V. A compromise eventually placed both Ivan and Peter on the throne under the regency of their sister, Sophia Alekseyevna.
		When Peter was about to come of age, the regent Sophia attempted a coup d'etat to place herself on the throne in 1689.
		Peter and his mother's Naryshkin supporters promptly deposed Sophia and confined her to a convent.
	www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b2peterthegreat.htm (1234 words)

	Sophia Alekseyevna Information
		Sofia Alekseyevna (Царевна Софья Алексеевна in Russian) (September 17 (27), 1657 – July 3 (14), 1704) was a regent of Russia (1682-1689) who allied herself with a singularly capable courtier and politician, Prince Vasily Galitzine, to install herself as a regent during the minority of her brothers, Peter I and Ivan V.
		The activity of this "bogatyr-tsarevna" (as Sergey Solovyov called her) was all the more extraordinary, as the Muscovite women usually kept themselves aloof from politics.
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	Gallitzin — FactMonster.com
		, regent during the joint reign of Ivan V and Peter I. After Sophia's downfall (1689), he was exiled to Siberia by Peter I. Boris Alekseyevich Gallitzin,
		1654–1714, was the tutor of Peter I and helped to depose Sophia Alekseyevna.
		Sophia Alekseyevna - Sophia Alekseyevna Sophia Alekseyevna, 1657–1704, regent of Russia (1682–89); daughter...
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	Sophia Alekseyevna - Encyclopedia.com
		Home > Categories > People > History > Russian, Soviet, and CIS History: Biographies > Sophia Alekseyevna
		Sophia Alekseyevna, 1657-1704, regent of Russia (1682-89); daughter of Czar Alexis by his first wife and sister of Czar Feodor III.
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		Sophia, Regent of Russia, Sixteen Fifty-Seven to Seventeen Hundred Four
		"Sophia Alekseyevna (September 17 (27), 1657-July 3 (14), 1704) was a regent of Russia (1682-1689) who allied herself with a singular.
		Sophia Alekseevna, the half-sister of Peter the Great, was the first woman rule Russia.
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	ALEKSEI SHEIN Articles Aleksei Semyonovich Shein (???????
		Later in his life, he would participate in the coronation ceremony of Peter I and Ivan V.
		Sophia Alekseyevna was very fond of Shein and granted him the title of a boyar.
		Upon Peter’s return, however, Shein fell into his disgrace for not having disclosed Streltsys’ ties with Sophia and, therefore, lost his boyar beard.
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	History
		A large factor in this investiture of Moscow as a holy, imperial city was the marriage of the grand duke Ivan III Vasilyevich to Zoл Sophia, niece of the last Byzantine emperor.
		The grand duke began to regard himself as the czar, the autocratic sovereign, rather than the head of the nobility.
		On Fyodor's death in 1682 his half brother, Peter the Great, was named czar (Peter I), but Peter's older half sister, Sophia Alekseyevna, succeeded in having her own brother, the weak-minded Ivan V, declared senior co-ruler, with herself as regent.
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