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He's a ras. Welcome to the Russian rulers podcast episode 25 Alexis the 1st and Fyodor the Third.

Last week we saw the beginning of the dawn of the age

and dynasty of the Romanovs, and the crushing of the possibility

of freedom for the majority of the people of Russia by imposing laws that made millions of citizens

serfs were slaves of the landowners. Now bound to the farms they toiled on from childhood

until death. They were very much like the

African American slaves of the 17 and 1800s in the United States. Third class

people with little or no rights and no futures.

Michael Romanov was dead and his son Alexis was crowned SAR at the tender age of 16,

which meant he needed a guardian to help him rule. Before he died, Michael named Boris Moritzov, a boyar to be that person.

Some historians agree that Michael could not have made a worse choice.

Moritzov was a thief, stealing whatever Michael could not have made a worse choice.

Moritzov was a thief, stealing whatever and whenever he wanted.

Corruption of this scale was incredible.

But he was a shrewd man as well, and not only did he act as a surrogate father to Alexis

He married the sister of Alexis's first wife Maria Miloskovskaya

It is July 1645 and young Alexi was coronated SARS just as his father before him after being

confirmed by a National Assembly, the Zemsky Sabore.

Known to history as the quiet one, his 30-year reign would see wars with Poland and

Sweden and a number of troubling internal uprisings that would threaten the fabric of society if not the health of the growing nation.

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