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Chosen as Tsar
Michael was unanimously elected by a national assembly. The delegates of the council didn't actually find the young Tsar and his mother at the Ipatiev Monastery near Kostroma until March 24th. He had been chosen after several other options had been removed, including royalty of Poland and Sweden. Michael was partly chosen for his connection by distant relation to the earlier Tsarina Anastasia, the wife of Ivan IV. -
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It's Official!
Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov crowned as Tsar on this day and begins the Romanov Dynasty -
Pyotr Tretyakov (date unknown, 1618)
First head of of the Posolsky Prikaz (Foreign Office) dies. He conducted policy of allying with Sweden against Poland. -
Ivan Gramotin (year approximate)
Became head of the Foreign Office after Pyotr Tretyakov died. He had a reputation of a Poloniphile; this appointment was necessary to bring forth Filaret's release from captivity. In mid-20s Filaret began preparations for war with Poland; Gramotin fell in his disfavour and was fired and exiled in 1626. -
Do I Hear Wedding Bells? (date unknown, 1624)
Maria Vladimirovna Dolgorukova married Michael in 1624, but died 4 months after the wedding -
Here We Go Again (date unknown, 1626)
Eudoxia Streshneva married Michael and bore him 10 children -
Failure (date unknown, 1644)
Michael failed to marry his oldest daughter, Irina Mikhailovna to Count Valdemar Christian of Schleswig-Holstein because when he arrived in Russia in 1644, he refused to convert to the orthodox faith.
