Feodor III of Russia

Feodor III
Фёдор III
Tsar of all Russia
Reign8 February (29 January O.S.) 1676 – 7 May 1682
Coronation18 June 1676
PredecessorAlexis
SuccessorPeter I and Ivan V
Born(1661-06-09)9 June 1661
Moscow, Russia
Died7 May 1682(1682-05-07) (aged 20)
Moscow, Russia
Burial
Spouses
(m. 1680; died 1681)
(m. 1682)
Names
Feodor Alexeevich Romanov
HouseRomanov
FatherAlexis of Russia
MotherMaria Ilyinichna Miloslavskaya
ReligionRussian Orthodoxy

Feodor or Fyodor III Alekseyevich (Russian: Фёдор III Алексеевич;[a] 9 June 1661 – 7 May 1682)[1] was Tsar of all Russia from 1676 until his death in 1682. Despite poor health from childhood, he managed to pass reforms on improving meritocracy within the civil and military state administration as well as founding the Slavic Greek Latin Academy.


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  1. ^ Norris, Stephen M.; Sunderland, Willard (2012). Russia's People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present. Indiana University Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-253-00184-9.