Feodor III of Russia

Feodor III
Portrait from the Cathedral of the Archangel (17th century)]]
Tsar of all Russia
Reign8 February 1676 – 7 May 1682
Coronation18 June 1676
PredecessorAlexis
SuccessorPeter I and Ivan V
Born(1661-06-09)9 June 1661
Moscow, Russia
Died7 May 1682(1682-05-07) (aged 20)
Moscow, Russia
Burial
Spouses
(m. 1680; died 1681)
    (m. 1682)
    Names
    Feodor Alexeevich Romanov
    HouseRomanov
    FatherAlexis of Russia
    MotherMaria Miloslavskaya
    ReligionRussian Orthodoxy

    Feodor or Fyodor III Alekseyevich (Russian: Фёдор III Алексеевич; 9 June 1661 – 7 May 1682) was Tsar of all Russia from 1676 until his death in 1682. Despite poor health from childhood, he managed to pass reforms on improving meritocracy within the civil and military state administration as well as founding the Slavic Greek Latin Academy.