Among the notable uprisings during this ruler's reign was that of a group of monks at Solovki, a White Sea island.
Among the notable uprisings during this ruler's reign was that of a group of monks at Solovki, a White Sea island. The Zealots of Piety were influential early in his reign and one of their ranks' deposition led to the establishment of the Petitions Chancellery. Other events of this man's reign include the uprising of Stepan Razin, who claimed to count among his ranks this tsar's son. More famously, he held a church council that alienated Avvakum and the Old Believers and instituted many of the reforms of a former metropolitan of Novgorod whose tenure as patriarch would lead to the raskol or schism, the Patriarch Nikon. For ten points,-- name this second Romanov tsar and father by Natalia Naryshkina of Peter the Great.
Among the notable uprisings during this ruler's reign was that of a group of monks at Solovki, a White Sea island.
{Alexei} Mikhailovich Romanov or {Alexis} I Romanov