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Updated: June 29, 2025
Sophia wrote to the Streltsui "You suffer but you will suffer more. Why do you wait? March on Moscow. There is no news of the Tsar." The army was told that he was dead, and that the boyars were scheming to kill his infant son Alexis and then get into power again.
The time was favorable, with disturbed conditions in Sweden, and a youth of eighteen without experience upon the throne. The Tsar, who had recently returned from abroad and had settled matters with his Streltsui in Moscow, saw in this enterprise just the opportunity he desired, and joined the coalition.
The details of its infliction are too dreadful to relate, and we read with incredulous horror that "the terrible carpenter of Saardam plied his own ax in the horrible employment" and that on the last day Peter himself put to death eighty-four of the Streltsui, "compelling his boyars to assist" in inflicting this "chastisement!" The Baltic was at this time a Swedish sea.
The Streltsui, or militia, was swept out of existence; the military Cossacks were deprived of their Hetman or leader; and a standing army, raised by recruiting, replaced these organizations. Nobility meant service.
Three thousand Russian families were sent to colonize Azof, which was guarded by some regiments of the Streltsui and by Cossacks and now there must be a navy. There must be nine ships of the line, and twenty frigates carrying fifty guns, and bombships, and fireships. That would require a great deal of money. It was then that the utility of the system of serfdom became apparent.
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