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See also:MICHAEL (1596-1645) , See also:tsar of See also:Russia, was the first tsar of the See also:house of See also:Romanov, being the son of See also:Theodore Nekitich Romanov, afterwards the See also:Patriarch See also:Philaret (q.v.), and See also:Xenia Chestovaya, afterwards the See also:nun Martha. He was elected unanimously tsar of Russia by a See also:national See also:assembly on the 21st of See also:February 1613, but not till the 24th of See also:March did the delegates of the See also:council discover the See also:young tsar and his See also:mother at the Ipatievsky monastery near See also:Kostroma. At first Martha See also:pro-tested that her son was too young and See also:tender for so difficult an See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in such troublesome times. At the last moment, however, Michael consented to accept the See also:throne, but not till the weeping boyars had solemnly declared that if he persisted in his refusal they would hold him responsible to See also:God for the utter destruction of Muscovy. In so dilapidated a See also:condition was the See also:capital at this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time that Michael had to wait for several See also:weeks at the Troitsa monastery, 75 M. Off, before decent See also:accommodation could be provided for him at See also:Moscow. He was crowned on the 22nd of See also:July. The first care of the new tsar was to clear the See also:land of the robbers that infested it. See also:Sweden and See also:Poland were then got' rid of respectively by the See also:peace of Stolbova (March 1o, 1617) and the truce of Deulina (Feb. 13, 1619). The most important result of the truce of Deulina was the return from See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile of the tsar's See also:father, who henceforth took over the See also:government till his See also:death in See also:October 1633, Michael occupying quite a subordinate position. He was a See also:gentle and pious See also:prince who gave little trouble to any one and effaced himself behind his counsellors. Fortunately for him they were relatively honest and capable men. Michael's failure to wed his daughter See also:Irene with Prince Waldemar of See also:Denmark, in consequence of the refusal of the latter to accept orthodoxy, so deeply afflicted him as to contribute to bring about his death on the 12th of July 16
See R. Nisbet See also:Bain, The First Romanovs (Lond., 1905). (R. N.
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