Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina Article Index for
Nataliya
Hotel Reservations in
Natal
Website Links For
Natalia
 

Information About

Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina




Natalia Kirillovna Naryshkina ( September 1 , 1651 - February 4 , 1694 ) was the Tsaritsa of Russia from 1671 to 1676 .

Coming from a family of Tatar Boyars , she was brought up in the house of the great Western-leaning Boyar , Artamon Matveyev , on account of her distant relationship with his wife, the Scottish-descended Mary Hamilton .

On February 1 , 1671 , she married Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich as his second wife. They had three children, the future Peter I Of Russia ( 1672 - 1725 , Tsarevna Natalya who founded the first public theatre in Russia, writing a number of its plays herself and Tsarevna Feodora. After the throne was secured for her son, Natalia, her brothers, and the patriarch effectively controlled the government.


See also