Eudoxia Streshneva was a daughter of Lukyan Stepanovich Streshnev (d. 1630) from Meshchovsk and his wife, Anna Konstantinovna Volkonskaya.She was thus regarded almost an orphan and was raised by a rich relative who belonged to the circle of the tsar's court in Moscow.Eudoxia Streshneva was among those daughters of the nobility summoned to appear in the bride-show at court, when the tsar was to select his new tsaritsa, after his first spouse had died.Xenia Shestova accompanied her daughter-in-law during all her official visits to monasteries and churches, and managed her public life as a tsaritsa.[citation needed] After the birth of her last child in 1639, Tsar Michael reportedly no longer wished to share her bed.
Mikhail Fyodorovich Choosing His Bride
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Ilya Repin
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