According to one account he released a political prisoner if she agreed not to make the symbol of the three-fingered cross, so in his presence she made a two-fingered cross.
According to one account he released a political prisoner if she agreed not to make the symbol of the three-fingered cross, so in his presence she made a two-fingered cross. During his reign, he ordered a new throne that was inscribed with his name and the phrase "the most powerful and invincible Emperor," and he constructed the Izmailova Gardens, which featured live polar bears. He maintained a so-called "Private Office" of his closest advisors. Late in his life the political figures Frol and Stenka Razin were captured at Kaganlyk and executed, and he also retained Smolensk but traded Livonia when he signed the Treaty of Andrussovo. Also during his reign, the patriarch Nikon made his reforms and was deposed, and most sources record that this predecessor of Fyodor III wanted to appear as brutal as his hero Ivan the Terrible in the eyes of the West.  For 10 points, name this czar that succeeded Mikhail Romanov.
According to one account he released a political prisoner if she agreed not to make the symbol of the three-fingered cross, so in his presence she made a two-fingered cross.
Alexis or Alexei