Alexis of Russia child Tsarevich Alexei Alexeyevich of Russia
Family and children
Alexis's first marriage to Miloslavskaya was harmonious and felicitous. She bore him thirteen children (five sons and eight daughters) in twenty-one years of marriage, and died only weeks after her thirteenth childbirth. Four sons survived her (Alexei, Fyodor, Semyon and Ivan), but within six months of her death two of these were dead, including Alexei, the 15-year-old heir to the throne. The couple's children were:Tsarevich Dmitri Alexeevich (1648–1649); crown prince; died in infancy
Tsarevna Yevdokia Alekseevna (1650–1712)
Tsarevna Marfa Alekseyevna (1652–1707)
Tsarevich Alexei Alexeevich (1654–1670); crown prince; died unwed aged 15
Tsarevna Anna Alexeevna (1655–1659); died in infancy
Tsarevna Sofia Alexeevna (1657–1704), regent of Russia (1682–89) for her two younger brothers; never married
Tsarevna Ekaterina Alexeevna (1658–1718)
Tsarevna Maria Alexeevna (1660–1723)
Fyodor III (1661–1682); succeeded his father as Tsar of Russia; died childless
Tsarevna Feodosia Alexeyevna (1662–1713)
Tsarevich Simeon Alexeyevich (1665–1669); died in infancy
Ivan V (1666–1696); was co-ruler along with his younger half-brother Peter the Great; father of Empress Anna
Tsarevna Yevdokia Alexeevna (1669–1669)Alexis remarried on 1 February 1671 to Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina (1 September 1651 – 4 February 1694). She had been brought up in the house of Artamon Matveyev, whose wife was the Scottish-descended Mary Hamilton. Their children were:
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