Family and Children
Alexei's first marriage to Miloslavskaya was a success, and she bore him thirteen children in twenty-one years of marriage: five sons and eight daughters, and died weeks after her thirteenth childbirth. Four sons survived her, (Alexei, Fyodor, Semyon, and Ivan) but within six months two of these had died, including Alexei, the sixteen-year-old heir to the throne.
Their children were:
- Tsarevich Dmitri Alexeevich (1648–1649)
- Tsarevna Yevdokia Alekseevna (1650–1712)
- Tsarevna Marfa Alekseyevna (1652–1707)
- Tsarevich Alexei Alexeevich (1654–1670)
- Tsarevna Anna Alexeevna (1655–1659)
- Tsarevna Sofia Alexeevna (1657–1704)
- Tsarevna Ekaterina Alexeevna (1658–1718)
- Tsarevna Maria Alexeevna (1660–1723)
- Fyodor III (1661–1682)
- Tsarevna Feodosia Alexeevna (1662–1713)
- Tsarevich Simeon Alexeevich (1665–1669)
- Ivan V (1666–1696)
- Tsarevna Yevdokia Alexeevna (1669–1669)
Alexei remarried on 1 February 1671, Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina ( 1 September 1651 – 4 February 1694). She was brought up in the house of Artamon Matveyev and was a ward of his wife, the Scottish-descended Mary Hamilton.
Their children were:
- Peter I (1672–1725)
- Tsarevna Natalya Alexeevna (1673–1716)
- Tsarevna Fyodora Alexeevna (1674–1677)
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