Few people know about the first wife of Peter I - Evdokia Fedorovna Lopukhina. However, it was this woman who became the last Russian tsarina and deserves that her descendants remember her and her role in the history of Russia.
Biography
Born Avdotya Lopukhina was born in 1670 in the family of the arrowhead. Later, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich granted her father the place of his stolnik and deceit at court. Avdotya was smart, beautiful, pious and brought up in the traditions of Domostroi.
The Lopukhins were a difficult family, they had support in the Streltsy troops and were close to the Naryshkins. In an effort to lean on an influential family, Tsarina Natalya Kirillovna personally chose Avdotya to be her bride’s son, the future heir to the Russian throne. Young people did not ask for consent to marriage; parents decided everything for them.
The wedding of Peter I and Lopukhina took place in 1689 near Moscow in the church of the Transfiguration Palace. Before the wedding, the bride changed her name and patronymic to Evdokia Fedorovna. According to ancient belief, such a rite protected the future queen from damage and the evil eye.
The last Russian queen
Evdokia Fedorovna Lopukhina was a tsarina for seven years, and the last native Russian wife of the tsar on the throne. After her, only empresses of foreign origin ruled in Russia.
The first son of Tsarevich Alexei Evdokia gave birth in 1690, and in October 1691 the second son was born to the couple - Tsarevich Alexander. Unfortunately, Alexander died in infancy.
Brought up in strict old Testament traditions, the tsarina, unlike her husband Peter I, did not like changes and innovations. This has become one of the main reasons for their frustration.
Degree Evdokia could not attract an active and greedy husband for innovations. She did not share his hobbies with “Neptune funs” and “Mars affairs”, she was angry and offended by the constant departures of Peter. Even the birth of two sons did not bring the royal spouses together.
