Bust "Tsar Fedor Alekseevich" Bely, 4.5x2.5x7.5cm

Fedor III Alekseevich 1661-1682, the sovereign, the king and great prince of all Rus' since 1676, from the Romanov dynasty, the son of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and Queen Maria Ilyinichny

The new king was only fifteen, but it was precisely precisely Under him, the foundations of many future reforms of his younger brother Peter

one of the acceptance became the order of the new king to his court on the change of familiar clothing to the caftans of the European model. In addition, the courtiers began to shave the beards and learn the Polish language, which was at that time as a source of knowledge about European culture.

, a general census of the population was held with it, direct courtyard taxation was introduced, which increased the severity of taxes. The ideas of more large -scale transformations were also born. One of the achievements of Fedor Alekseevich was the reform of the administrative apparatus - related orders were combined. Another important milestone was the overwhelming reorganization of the army. Tsar Fedor decided to gradually replace the noble militia with a regular army - regiments of a foreign system.

probably, the most important achievement of Fedor Alekseevich was the abolition of localism - custom, according to which the receipt of certain posts and posts necessarily correlated with the merits of the ancestors and antiquity The family itself in 1682.

In 1681, he helped in the opening of the printing school of the Zaikonospaspsk monastery, which became the predecessor of the famous Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy.

under it, the Russian state fought with the Ottoman Empire And her vassal Crimean khanate. The Russo-Turkish war ended with the signing of the Bakhchisarai peace treaty, according to which the Left Bank Ukraine and Kyiv remained with the Russian state, and the Turks and Crimeans pledged not to speak out against Russia for twenty years.