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Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia

1657 - 1704

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Sophia Alekseyevna (Russian: Со́фья Алексе́евна, IPA: [ˈsofʲjə ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvnə]; 27 September [O.S. 17 September] 1657 – 14 July [O.S. 3 July] 1704) was a Russian princess who ruled as regent of Russia from 1682 to 1689. She allied herself with a singularly capable courtier and politician, Prince Vasily Golitsyn, to install herself during the minority of her brother Ivan V and half-brother Peter I. She carried out her regency with a firm hand. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia has received more than 235,694 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia is the 1,451st most popular politician (up from 1,805th in 2019), the 158th most popular biography from Russia (up from 188th in 2019) and the 61st most popular Russian Politician.

Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia was the daughter of Tsar Alexei and sister of Tsar Peter the Great. She is best known for being the first woman to rule Russia in her own right.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia ranks 1,451 out of 15,577Before her are Marie of Romania, Kim Young-sam, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Tipu Sultan, Tristan, and Maria II of Portugal. After her are Christopher of Bavaria, Symon Petliura, Carol I of Romania, Caroline Bonaparte, Egon Krenz, and Peter I of Portugal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1657, Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia ranks 2Before her is Frederick I of Prussia. After her are Emeric Thököly, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, Michel Richard Delalande, Philip Prospero, Prince of Asturias, Sambhaji, Francesco Solimena, Henry Casimir II, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Arai Hakuseki, Guido Starhemberg, and Friedrich Wilhelm III, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. Among people deceased in 1704, Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia ranks 3Before her are John Locke and Marc-Antoine Charpentier. After her are Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Guillaume de l'Hôpital, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Georg Muffat, Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark, Jean-Baptiste Denys, Selim I Giray, Charles Plumier, and Menno van Coehoorn.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia ranks 158 out of 3,262Before her are Alexander Glazunov (1865), Paul Karrer (1889), Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), Andrey Kolmogorov (1903), Viktor Zubkov (1941), and Alexei Leonov (1934). After her are Alexey Stakhanov (1906), Raisa Gorbacheva (1932), Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (1690), Johannes Blaskowitz (1883), Witold Pilecki (1901), and El Lissitzky (1890).

Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia ranks 61Before her are Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia (1708), Martti Ahtisaari (1937), Walther Funk (1890), Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia (1779), Genrikh Yagoda (1891), and Viktor Zubkov (1941). After her are Raisa Gorbacheva (1932), Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (1690), Sergey Shoygu (1955), Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095), Anastasia Romanovna (1530), and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia (1891).