The artist is Makovsky
The first marriage of the young Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich was preceded by traditional preparation. From all over the state, 200 girls from boyars and noble families were collected to Moscow. Of these, six of the most useful and introduced to the king. On these briefings, Alexei Mikhailovich liked Evfimiy, the daughter of the Kasimov landowner Rafa-Fedor Vsevolozhskoy. As a sign of betrothal, the sovereign gave the girl a ring and a scarf.
However, the uncle (teacher) of the 18-year-old king, boyar. And. Morozov, started an intrigue who had the goal of holding a candidacy from his bride from a close circle to Alexei. There were rumors that, according to his instruction, when dressed in royal clothes for a solemn exit, the hay girls pulled the hair on the head of the Vsevolozhskoy so much that the reverent beauty fell with the groom without feelings. Morozov, who had a huge impact on the king, immediately attributed to the fainting of epilepsy and inspired Alexei Mikhailovich the idea of the impossibility of this marriage. Having upset the wedding, the boyar soon presented his pupil of the sisters of the Miloslavsky, in the eldest of whom he fell in love and made a queen. Morozov married his younger sister, became related to the king and gained great power at court.
Makovsky presented the climax of the colorful ceremony of Sidinin, when the young king, looking at the Evfimius Vsevolozhskaya, leaning in a slight bow, is going to make his choice. (N. B., P. To.)
Electronic catalog “Heroes and villains of Russian history”. SPb, 2010. With. 142.
Alexey Mikhailovich (March 19, 1629 – January 29, 1676) – Tsar from the Romanov dynasty, father of Peter I. The son of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich and Evdokia Lukyanovna Streshneva. He entered the throne July 14, 1645, crowned on September 28, 1645. During his reign, the Zemsky Cathedral adopted the “Code” 1649, the customs (1653) and Novogorgovy (1667) charters were adopted, Ukraine reunibly with Russia (1654), which was completed by the Andrusovsky truce with Poland (1667).
January 16, 1648 he married Maria Ilyinichny Miloslavskaya (April 1, 1624 – March 3, 1669), had thirteen children. January 22, 1671 entered into a second marriage with Natalya Kirillovna Naryshkina (August 22, 1651 – January 25, 1694), from which three children were born: Peter (May 30, 1672; January 28, 1725), Natalia (August 22, 1673 – June 18, 1716), Theodore) (September 4, 1674 – November 28, 1678).
Peter I. Time and environment. SPb, 2015. With. 122.