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'''Mikhail Fyodorovich''', (Russian: Михаил Фёдорович) - ''Mikhail Fyodorovich'', also '''Michael Fydorovich''', was the first Russian Tsar of the house of Romanov. He was the son of Fyodor Nikitich Romanov (later known as [[Philaret (Romanov) of Moscow|Patriarch Philaret]]) and his wife Xenia (later known as "the ''great nun''" Martha). His reign marked the end of the [[Time of Troubles]].
==Life==
Tsar Michael married twice, first in 1624, to Princess Maria Vladimirovna Dolgorukova, who died four months later, and then, on [[February 5]], 1626, to [[w:Eudoxia Streshneva|Eudoxia Streshneva]], with whom he had ten children, three sons and seven daughters. Tsar Michael reposed on [[July 12]], 1645.
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before=Theodore II|
title=Tsar of Russia|
years=1613 - 1645|
after=Alexis}}
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