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Alexei Mikhailovich (reign, 1645 - 1676) He was also devout and a good family man devoted to his two wives. But he also was a stronger political ruler than his father. However, after his death there was much political conflict between the families of his two wives seeking to gain power through his offspring, Ivan V and Sophia on the one hand and Peter I on the other. |
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