Tsarevich Simeon Alexeyevich of Russia

Tsarevich Simeon Alexeyevich of Russia

Tsarevich Simeon Alexeyevich (Russian: Симеон Алексеевич; 3 April 1665 - 18 June 1669) was the fourth son of Tsar Alexis of Russia and Maria Miloslavskaya, brother of Tsar Feodor III of Russia and Tsar Ivan V of Russia and half-brother of Tsar Peter the Great.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Imposture 3 Notes 4 Literature Biography He was named after his grandmother's brother, Semyon Lukyanovich Streshnev[2]. He was baptized on April 22, 1665, in the Church of St. Catherine in the Moscow Kremlin[3].

The Supreme Boyaryna under Simeon was Princess Ulyana Ivanovna Golitsyna, who later performed the same duty under his younger brother, Tsarevich Peter. Like many of Alexei Mikhailovich's children from his first marriage, Tsarevich Simeon was sickly and died in childhood. Several months earlier (in March 1669), his mother, Maria Ilyinichna Miloslavskaya, had died. He was buried in the Archangel Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin.

Measured icon of the Tsarevich The inscription on the tombstone reads: "In the year 7177 June, on the 19th, at the fifth hour of the night, in memory of the holy Apostle Jude, the brother of the Lord in the flesh, the servant of God, the faithful great sovereign tsar and grand duke Alexei Mikhailovich, the autocrat of all great and small and white Russia and the faithful empress tsarina and grand duchess Maria Ilyinichna, the faithful son, sovereign tsarevich and grand duke Simeon Alekseevich, passed away and was buried in this place on the same date."[4]

Impostorship Main article: False Simeon Having died at the age of four, Simeon Alekseevich would not have remained in history. But at the beginning of 1673, a young man of about fifteen years old appeared in Zaporozhye. He declared himself to be the miraculously saved Tsarevich Simeon. The adventurer explained that due to a quarrel in the royal family, he was forced to hide with Stepan Razin. Ataman Ivan Sirko showed him signs of high respect. The Tsar's ambassadors arrived with a small detachment of Cossacks to seize the impostor. But the Cossacks refused to hand over the "tsarevich". The matter almost came to a clash. Finally, they agreed that Sirko would send Cossacks to Moscow, who would meet with the Tsar and give him a letter from the "son", in which he called him "father" and asked for a personal meeting. In a reply letter, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich wrote: "Our son, Tsarevich Simeon, died on June 18, 1669, his relics were buried in the Church of the Archangel Michael in our time, under the Alexandrian Patriarch Paisius and the Moscow Iosaph" and demanded the extradition of the false Tsarevich. The son of a commoner, Semyon Ivanov Vorobyov, was handed over to the Moscow ambassadors, delivered to the capital, and, by the verdict of the Tsar and the Boyar Duma, executed on September 18, 1674.