Alexis I Mikhailovich 
Alexis I was born on March 10th, 1629. He died at the age of 46 on January 29th, 1676.General Notes
Alexis I (1629-76), second Russian czar (1645-76) of the house of Romanov, and
father of Peter the Great. He succeeded his father Michael. As a result of two
campaigns by Alexis against the Poles (1654-56 and 1660-67), Russia gained
Smolensk, Kyyiv, and the lands east of the Dnepr River. The war with Sweden
(1656-58) was not as successful; Alexis was forced to withdraw from the lands
he had taken. The reign of Czar Alexis was also marked by internal revolt, a
schism in the Russian Orthodox church, and the formulation of a legal code
that extended the serfdom of the Russian peasants.
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