(1682 – 1689)
After the death of childless Fedor Alekseevich, his brother John, weak in body and soul, was removed from the throne.
Patriarch Joachim and boyars proclaimed the king 10-year-old Peter.
The Miloslavskii Party, with the tsarist Sophia at the head, decided to challenge the authorities. To fulfill her plans, Sophia turned to the Archer’s army and inclined him to her side, suggesting that Prince John was illegally removed from the throne, and opened an open bloody riot against the Naryshkins.
Sagittarius, according to the suggestion of Sophia, was announced by the sovereigns of both princes together, and the reign over the youth of the brothers was handed to Princess Sophia.
Sophia stopped the unrest among the schismatics, pacified the streltsy.
In 1686, Russia concluded an eternal peace with the Poles, which left the left-bank Ukraine and Kiev forever for Moscow. This world finally ended the long struggle of Russia with Poland for Little Russia.
In 1689 the Treaty of Nerchinsk was concluded with China, according to which both banks of the Amur, conquered by the Cossacks, were ceded to China.
Sophia fell victim to her love of power. Peter penetrated into her designs and imprisoned her in the Novodevichy Convent in 1689.