The Russian boyars call a zemsky sobor …
Years: 1613 - 1613
February
The Russian boyars call a zemsky sobor (national council) in 1613 and on February 21 unanimously elect to offer the throne of the tsars to Ivan IV’s grandnephew, sixteen-year-old Michael Fyodorovich Romanov, a grandson of Ivan’s first wife’s brother Nikita.
Michael’s father, Fyodor Nikitich Romanov, is in Polish captivity.
