Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia: Difference between revisions

'''Sophia Alekseyevna''' ({{lang-rus|Со́фья Алексе́евна|p=ˈsofʲɪjə ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvnə}}; {{OldStyleDate|27 September|1657|17 September}}{{spaced ndash}}{{OldStyleDate|14 July|1704|3 July}}<ref name="dlib.rsl.ru">[http://dlib.rsl.ru/viewer/01004169063#page13?page=13 Родословная книга Всероссiйскаго дворянства]</ref>) ruled as [[regent]] of [[Tsardom of Russia|Russia]] from 1682 to 1689. She allied herself with a singularly capable courtier and politician, Prince [[Vasily Vasilyevich Golitsyn|Vasily Golitsyn]], to install herself during the minority of her brother [[Ivan V of Russia|Ivan V]] and half-brother [[Peter the Great|Peter I]]. She carried out her regency with a firm and heavy hand. The activity of this "[[bogatyr]]-[[tsarevna]]" (as [[Sergey Solovyov (historian)|Sergey Solovyov]] called her) was all the more extraordinary, as upper-class Muscovite women, confined to the upper-floor ''terem'' and veiled and guarded in public, invariably were kept aloof from any open involvement in politics.<ref>