Bust "Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich" Bely, 4x2x7cm

Alexei Mikhailovich The Quarte 1629-1676. The second Russian king from the Romanov dynasty, since 1645, the son of Mikhail Fedorovich and his second wife of Evdokia.

Praise the “talked” king in the “rebellious” century, Alexei Mikhailovich, according to historiographical tradition, was not an active sovereign , the degree of his participation in the adoption of the most important political decisions to historians is reliably not known,

continued the strengthening of the autocratic, unlimited power of the king, in the second half of the 17th century. Zemsky cathedrals were not convened, but the ordered control system reached the heyday, the process of its bureaucratization was intensively. A special role was played by a secret order, which was established directly in 1654, subordinate directly to Alexei Mikhailovich and allowed him to lead other central and local institutions.

during the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich, a split of the Russian Orthodox Church also occurred.

Strengthening the dependence of the peasants on the landlords as a result of the establishment of an unlimited detect of fugitive peasants led to the discontent of the Cossacks. In 1670-1671 A rebellion led by Stepan Razin, which was suppressed, swept through the country.

In foreign policy, successful wars with Poland were waged, the main result of which is the Poles's refusal to claims to the West Russian lands, as well as the reunion of Russia and Ukraine. < /p>