(30.5.1672 - 28.1.1725)
Son of Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich and his second wife Natalia Kirillovna Naryshkina. Factually started ruling in1689 .
Tsar (1682-1721)
First Emperor of Russia (1721-1725)

The younger son of Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich. Belonged to the Naryshkin family. Because of the political situation he was crowned in 1682, at the age of  10, together with his brother-in-law Ivan V Alekseevich, who belonged to another powerful Boyar family of Miloslavsky. Being the younger brother, he was crowned with a special crown – the Monomakh’s Crown of  second set – a copy of the Monomakh’s Crown, the inheritable crown of Russian Tsars.