government of Tsar Alexis of Russia

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The government of Tsar Alexis of Russia was the centralized autocratic administration of the second Romanov tsar, overseeing mid-17th-century Muscovy through a combination of traditional boyar councils, expanding bureaucracy, and strict fiscal and social policies.

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instanceOf early modern Russian government
government
administrativeLanguage Church Slavonic
appliesToJurisdiction Muscovy
basedOnDocument Sobornoye Ulozheniye of 1649
centralization highly centralized
countryGoverned Tsardom of Russia
economicPolicy indirect taxation
state monopolies on key commodities
endTime 1676
followedBy government of Tsar Feodor III of Russia
follows government of Tsar Michael of Russia
formOfGovernment absolute monarchy
autocracy
hasComponent boyar council
linked to: Boyar Duma

church administration
expanding bureaucracy
fiscal administration
judicial administration
military administration
headOfGovernment Tsar Alexis of Russia
headOfState Tsar Alexis of Russia
ideology Muscovite absolutism
Orthodox autocracy
implementedPolicy centralization of authority
church reform
expansion of prikazy
legal codification
military reforms
salt tax
serfdom consolidation
tax increases
territorial expansion
religion Russian Orthodox Church
seatOfGovernment Moscow Kremlin
significantEvent Church reforms of Patriarch Nikon
Copper Riot of 1662
linked to: Copper Riot

Pereyaslav Agreement
Russo-Polish War (1654–1667)
Salt Riot of 1648
linked to: Salt Riot

Schism of the Russian Orthodox Church
Treaty of Andrusovo
linked to: Truce of Andrusovo

annexation of Left-bank Ukraine
socialPolicy legal binding of peasants to the land
reinforcement of estate hierarchy
startTime 1645
usedInstitution Boyar Duma
Patriarchate of Moscow
Prikazy system
Zemsky Sobor
chancelleries
local voivodes

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Salt Riot opponent government of Tsar Alexis of Russia
government of Tsar Alexis of Russia followedBy government of Tsar Feodor III of Russia
linked to: government of Tsar Alexis of Russia