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Article: Alexis I (Russia) (1629–1676; Ruled 1645–1676)
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ALEXIS I (RUSSIA) (1629
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1676; ruled 1645
–
1676)
ALEXIS I (RUSSIA)
(1629
–
1676; ruled 1645
–
1676), tsar of Russia. Alexis Mikhailovich came to the throne at the age of sixteen in 1645. His long and eventful reign saw the beginnings of the rise of Russia's power and the earliest phases of the Europeanization of its culture. At first he ruled under the influence of his former tutor, the boyar Boris Morozov. Morozov tried to pay for the defenses of the southern frontier and other outlays by changing the tax system, introducing a new tax on salt and other burdens in place of the older general sales tax and tavern monopoly. He consolidated his power at court in ...