(12.7.1596 - 13.7.1645)
Son of Theodore Nikitich Romanov (Patriarch Filaret) and Ksenia Ivanovna Shestova.
Tsar (1613-1645).

First Russian Tsar from the new Romanov Dynasty. Crowned for reigning in 1613. The ceremonial was traditionally held in the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church put on the young Tsar the Crown of Monomakh, barmas, the cross, the golden chain, gave him the scepter and orb. Since that time during the whole XVIIth century they used the Crown of Monomakh, barmas, cross, golden chain, scepter and orb in the crowning ceremony.