Mikhail I, Tsar of Russia

Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov (22 July 1596 - 23 July 1645) is the first Tsar of the Romanov Family. He is the third son and fourth child of Fyodor Nikitich Romanov and Kseniya Ioannovna Shestova, the younger brother of Tatyana and his deceased older brothers Boris and Nikita Romanov, and the older brother of two deceased brothers Lev and Ioan. Through his great-aunt Anastasiya, he is the great-nephew of Ioan IV and the first cousin once removed of the last Rurikid Tsar, Fyodor I. He first married Mariya but their only child was a stillborn. She soon died four months after their marriage. A year later, he married Yevdoksiya, and they had ten children together: Irina, Pelagiya, Aleksey I, Anna, Marta, Ioan, Sofia, Tatyana, Yevdoksiya and Vasili.