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Mikhail Romanov - the first Russian tsar of the Romanov dynasty, he was a great-nephew of the last Russian tsar of the Moscow branch of the Rurik dynasty, Feodor I of Russia.When Boris Godunov of the Romanov family was in disgrace.
After taking power False Dmitry I, proving their kinship with the royal family, returned to the court of the surviving family members of Theodore and Martha, the Romanov children.Relationship with Rurik was the important fact in the election of candidates for the throne.
Serving nobility tried to prevent the establishment in Russia of the Polish monarchy.When, after the expulsion of the invaders from Russia was a question about the pretender to the throne, the candidature of Mikhail Romanov was the most suitable.February 21, 1613 Great Zemsky and Local Councils, Russia`s new king was elected Mikhail Romanov.
His election has closed during troubled times.The newly elected king was young and inexperienced and until 1619 the country was ruled by a great oxbow Martha and her family.
Then, after the liberation in 1619 from the Polish exile Patriarch Filaret, the actual power passed into the hands of the latter, also bore the title of the Great Emperor.State of ratification of the time were written on behalf of the king and the patriarch. |
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