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People: Gonzalo Guerrero
Topic: Grand Embassy of Peter the Great

The Russian boyars call a zemsky sobor …

Years: 1613 - 1613
February

The Russian boyars call a zemsky sobor (national council) in 1613 and on February 21 unanimously elect to offer the throne of the tsars to Ivan IV’s grandnephew, sixteen-year-old Michael Fyodorovich Romanov, a grandson of Ivan’s first wife’s brother Nikita.

Michael’s father, Fyodor Nikitich Romanov, is in Polish captivity.