Contents

Tatyana Mikhailovna of Russia

Tatyana was born the daughter of Tsar Michael of Russia and Eudoxia Streshneva, and the sister of Tsar Aleksei I of Russia.

In contemporary Muscovite custom, Russian princesses were completely secluded from the world outside of the women's quarters of the terem, not allowed contact with men nor allowed to marry.^[2] Tatyana followed these rules, but she was also able to exert some degree of influence at court. She was known as a supporter of the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow. She had a good relationship with her brother tsar Alexei.

During the regency of her niece Sophia, she reportedly exercised some degree of influence at court, where she was treated as the senior female member at court in etiquette matters and given precedence by regent Sophia before the dowager Tsaritsa Natalya.

When Sophia was deposed by tsar Peter the Great in 1689, Foy de la Neuville reported that Sophia sent her sister, Tsarevna Marfa, and aunts, Anna and Tatyana, to mediate.^[3] Tatyana tried to mediate and prevent Peter from imprisoning her niece Tsarevna Marfa in a convent, but without success; she lost her influence as Peter's reforms progressed society from the old way and the old court.

Tatyana died in the early hours of 24 August 1706, and was interred at Ascension Convent near the Spassky Gate in Moscow on the same day.^[1] In 1930, her sarcophagus was moved to the basement of the Kremlin's Cathedral of the Archangel.^[4] When archaeologists opened her sarcophagus, her body was found dressed in green Chinese silks.^[5]

• Neuville, Foy de la (1996). ЗАПИСКИ О МОСКОВИИ [Writings on Moscow] (in Russian). Translated by A. S. Lavrov. Allegro Press.
• Logunova, Marina (2017).『Похороны членов семьи』[Funerals for family members]. Печальные ритуалы императорской России [Sad Rituals of Imperial Russia] (in Russian). Litres.
• Massie, Robert K. (1995). Peter the Great: His Life and World (2 ed.). London: Abacus.
• Panova, T. D. (2003). Некрополи Московского Кремля [The Moscow Kremlin Necropolis] (in Russian) (2 ed.). Moscow: Moscow Kremlin Museums.
• Rostislav, Berezkin (2018), "Chinese Objects in Eurasian Empire: On the Cultural Meaning of Chinese Art in Russia in the Late 17th–Early 18th Centuries", Frontiers of History in China, 13 (1): 127–159, doi:10.3868/s020-007-018-0007-7

• Григорян В. Г. Романовы. Биографический справочник.— М.:АСТ,2007.

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Russian. (October 2016) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepLorGoogle Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Russian Wikipedia article at [[:ru:Татьяна Михайловна]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|ru|Татьяна Михайловна}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.