Marfa Matveyevna Apraxina
Marfa Matwejewna Apraxina ( Russian Марфа Матвеевна Апраксина ; * 1664 in Moscow ; † December 31, 1715 jul. / January 11, 1716 greg. In St. Petersburg ) was the second wife of Fyodor III. Tsarina of Russia.
She was the daughter of Matwei Wassiljewitsch Apraxin, a nobleman from Ryazan , and Domna Bogdanovna Lowchikowa. On February 24, 1682, she married the tsar, who had been widowed for a year, in Moscow, but the marriage lasted only two and a half months; the tsar died on May 7, 1682. The marriage remained childless.
The former Tsarina lived as a widow in St. Petersburg for 33 years and died there in 1716 of a stomach disease. She was buried in the Peter and Paul Fortress . At her funeral, the old custom that mourners should mourn the coffin was abolished on the orders of Tsar Peter the Great (half-brother of Fjodor III).
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- Center d'Études des Dynasties Royales Européennes
- IS Semyonov: Christian Dynasties in Europe (Христианские династии Европы), Olma Media Group, 2002, page 422 (Russian)
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| predecessor | Office | Successor |
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| Agafia Gruschetzkaya | Tsarina of Russia 1682 |
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Apraxina, Marfa Matveyevna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | by marriage Tsarina of Russia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1664 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1716 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |