Tatyana Mikhailovna of Russia (russian: Татьяна Михайловна; 5 January 1636 – 23 August 1706) was a Russian

Tsarevna Tsarevna (russian: Царевна) was the daughter of a Tsar of Russia before the 18th century. The name is meant as a daughter of a Tsar, or as a wife of a Tsarevich. All of them were unmarried, and grew old in convents or in the Terem Palace, ...

. She was heavily involved with the politics of the Romanov court during the reigns of her brother

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and the regency of her niece

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Biography

Tatyana was born the daughter of Tsar

Michael of Russia Michael I (Russian: Михаил Фёдорович Романов, ''Mikhaíl Fyódorovich Románov'') () became the first Russian tsar of the House of Romanov after the Zemskiy Sobor of 1613 elected him to rule the Tsardom of Russia. He w ...

and

Eudoxia Streshneva Eudoxia Streshneva (, ''Yevdokiya Lukyanovna Streshneva''; 1608 – 18 August 1645) was the Tsaritsa of Russia as the second spouse of Tsar Michael of Russia. Life Eudoxia Streshneva was a daughter of the noble Lukyan Stepanovich Streshnev (d ...

, and the sister of Tsar

Aleksei I of Russia Alexey, Alexei, Alexie, Aleksei, or Aleksey (russian: Алексе́й ; bg, Алексей ) is a Russian language, Russian and Bulgarian language, Bulgarian male first name deriving from the Greek language, Greek ''Aléxios'' (), meaning "D ...

. In contemporary Muscovite custom, Russian princesses were completely secluded from the world outside of the women's quarters of the

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, not allowed contact with men nor allowed to marry. Tatyana followed these rules, but she was also able to exert some degree of influence at court. She was known as a supporter of the reforms of

Patriarch Nikon of Moscow Nikon ( ru , Ни́кон, Old Russian: ''Нїконъ''), born Nikita Minin (''Никита Минин''; 7 May 1605 – 17 August 1681) was the seventh Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' of the Russian Orthodox Church, serving officially from ...

. She had a good relationship with her brother tsar Alexei.

Sophia's regency

During the regency of her niece

, she reportedly exercised some degree of influence at court, where she was treated as the senior female member at court in etiquette matters and given precedence by regent Sophia before the dowager Tsaritsa Natalya. When Sophia was deposed by tsar

Peter the Great Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...

in 1689,

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reported that Sophia sent her sister, Tsarevna Marfa, and aunts,

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and Tatyana, to mediate. Tatyana tried to mediate and prevent Peter from imprisoning her niece Tsarevna Marfa in a convent, but without success; she lost her influence as Peter's reforms progressed society from the old way and the old court.

Death

Tatyana died in the early hours of 24 August 1706, and was interred at

Ascension Convent Ascension Convent, known as the Starodevichy Convent or Old Maidens' Convent until 1817 (russian: Вознесенский монастырь, ''Voznesensky monastyr''), was an Orthodox nunnery in the Moscow Kremlin which contained the burials of ...

near the Spassky Gate in

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on the same day. In 1930, her sarcophagus was moved to the basement of the Kremlin's

Cathedral of the Archangel The Cathedral of the Archangel (russian: Архангельский собор, Arkhangel'skiy sobor) is a Russian Orthodox church dedicated to the Archangel Michael. It is located in Cathedral Square of the Moscow Kremlin in Russia between the G ...

. When archaeologists opened her sarcophagus, her body was found dressed in green Chinese silks.

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