Sophia Alekseevna

Sophia Alekseevna (in monasticism - Susanna) (1657 - 1704), ruler of Russia in 1682-1689gg. The daughter of Alexei Mikhailovich and M. I. Miloslavskaya. Studied at Polotsky. Was educated, overbearing and rigid man. Massive political positions when it held the favorite - in. V. Golitsyn, take, inter alia, two fruitless Crimean campaigns 1687 and 1689. Entered into 'perpetual peace' with Poland in 1686, which Poland recognized for the Left-Bank Ukraine, Russia. After the failure of the conspiracy against Peter I in 1689, Mr.. was confined to the Novodevichy Convent. New attempt to achieve power through musketeers (1698) was also unsuccessful, resulting in Sophia was tonsured as a nun. She died in the same monastery in 1704