Theodore III. 1661 - 1682 Editorial Photo

Hutchinson`s History of the Nations 1915 - Feodor III Alexeyevich or Fyodor III Alekseevich was the Tsar of Russia between 1676 and 1682.Born in Moscow, Fyodor, as the eldest surviving son of Tsar Alexis and Maria Miloslavskaya, succeeded his father on the throne in 1676 at the age of fifteen. He had a fine intellect and a noble disposition; he had received an excellent education at the hands of Simeon Polotsky, the most learned Slavonic monk of the day. He knew Polish and even possessed the unusual accomplishment of Latin. He had been disabled from birth, however, horribly disfigured and half paralyzed by a mysterious disease, supposed to be scurvy.