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olga:
Why was Kseniya Ivanovna Shestova, mother of Mihail I Fyodorovich, forced to take the veil in 1590, as Sister Marfa?   ???

http://members.surfeu.fi/thaapanen/data/r115.html

LisaDavidson:
Mikhail's mother was forced to become a nun to get her out of the way. Inconvenient woman were forced and would be forced into religious orders to get them out of the way.

RomanovFan:

--- Quote ---It's Mikhail, not Michael.  ;D
--- End quote ---


In Russian, yes. :)

LisaDavidson:
A tsar by any other name would smell as sweet? I am so tired of Michael (Mike- ell) being mispelled as Micheal (Mic - heal), I could scream.

But Michael is Mikhail (Meek-hail) in Russian.

Epsilonthrust:
You mean Mikhail is Michael in Russian.

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