He did not receive a good education. He ascended the throne at the age of 16 when his father died. But, the state was ruled by his half-brother and also his private teacher. He was popularly known as the "calm man" because of his calm, gentle, and religious nature.
(1629 – 1676) Russian tsar. He legalized serfdom and made some religious reforms. He was born on March 20, 1629, in Moscow and died on February 8, 1676, in Moscow. He is the son of the first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, Mikhail Romanov, and the father of Peter I. He did not receive a good education. He ascended the throne at the age of 16 when his father died in 1645. But the state was ruled by his half-brother and private teacher, Boris Ivanovich Morozov. Aleksey was forced to exile Morozov when the new economic measures introduced in 1648, especially the increase in indirect taxes and customs duties, led to a large-scale uprising in Moscow. After this event, a series of laws called Sobornoye Ulozheniye 1649 was enacted with the suggestions of the advisers he appointed in the government. These laws strengthened the serfs' dependence on the land and their lords. As a result of the wars with Poland between 1654-1667 and with Sweden between 1656-1661, the region of Ukraine to the east of the Dnieper River and Kyiv was captured.
Aleksey Mikhaylovich (9 March [O.S. 9 March] 1629 – 8 February [O.S. 29 January] 1676) was the Tsar of Russia from 1645 until his death in 1676.
In 1666 – 1667, he supported the religious reforms that Patriarch Nikon of the Russian Orthodox Church wanted to make within the church. These reforms, which included the revision of religious books to ensure their consistency with other Orthodox churches and the removal of some icons from churches, led to widespread disagreements within the Russian church. Relations between Alexei and Nikon deteriorated with the patriarch's desire to make the church a partner in state affairs. Between 1667 and 1671, the peasant uprising led by Stenka Razin was suppressed with difficulty by the tsarist armies.
Aleksey Mikhailovich was popularly known as the "calm man" because of his calm, gentle, and religious nature. During his rule, he gave importance to the development of foreign trade in Russia, and to the spread of education and Western culture. Although he was not very interested in state affairs, the rule of the Romanovs strengthened during his reign. At the time of Alexei's death, the state's borders included Pskov, Smolensk, Chernikov, and Kyiv, stretching to the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea in the southeast, and the Pacific Ocean in the east.