In Jin Yong's novel "Deer Ding", it tells the story of Wei Xiaobao's love affair with Princess Sophia of luochaguo. At that time, Sophia rushed from Moscow to Yaksa in order to visit her lover Gorizin and met Wei Xiaobao by chance. With his slippery tongue and the wisdom learned from years of watching drama, Wei Xiaobao not only helped Sophia launch a coup to become the regent, but also made a dewy couple with Sophia for a period of time. Was there really Princess Sophia in history? What is her story? Historically, at the same time, Russia did have a princess named Sophia, whose full name was Sophia Alexevna Romanova, and she was the only one of Alexei I's children who had a normal IQ and health. Among Alexei I's other children, Prince Fyodor suffered from "scurvy", and there was a younger brother Ivan, who had a low IQ, and three children who died prematurely.
By the way, Sophia looks like no bad, five big and three thick, Wei Xiaobao is not easy, everyone can understand it when you look at the picture. In 1682, Fyodor, who had already become Tsar, died young, leaving his brother Ivan and peter, the son of his stepmother Natalia, as candidates. The ministers were willing to appoint Peter as Tsar, but Sophia was dissatisfied with this result, and she used Natalia's rebuke and punishment of the shooting army to spread rumors, and falsely claimed that Prince Ivan was killed, thus provoking the dissatisfaction of the shooting army and the korean ministers with Natalia, and took the opportunity to launch a palace coup, so that Ivan and Peter would rule together and become regent herself. This passage is similar to what is described in Jin Yong's novel. After Sophia's successful coup, she sent her stepmother Natalia and Peter to the countryside. However, unlike many Chinese emperors who knew how to cut the grass and remove the roots, she let Peter set up a youth league, hoping to occupy his time and energy, but she did not expect that this laid a hidden danger for her future. In 1689, Peter came of age and married a wife, and it was supposed that Sophia should transfer political power to Peter, but she was not happy and attempted to launch another mutiny to seize power and crown herself emperor.
However, because sophia's regency had failed many wars with neighboring countries and the domestic economy was also depressed, the Russian nobles were very dissatisfied, and they abandoned Sophia in favor of Peter. Moreover, before the mutiny, someone in the shooting army sent a message to Peter, who was already prepared.
Therefore, this mutiny failed Sophia, and Peter defeated Sophia with the support of his large youth group and the ministers and nobles, and took power in a month. Sophia was imprisoned in the Novodevich Monastery, while the soldiers who followed Sophia were exiled to the side.
In 1698, the exiled soldiers jointly petitioned Sophia, hoping that she could lead them to regain power, and Sophia herself was not willing to die in the monastery, so she began to communicate secretly, contact deployment, wait for the opportunity, and launch a mutiny. But before Sophia's soldiers could reach Moscow, they were wiped out by two generals, Yi Deng and Shein. Tsar Peter ordered a thorough investigation of the matter and identified Sophia behind the scenes.
So the Tsar ordered Sophia to cut her hair into a nun, imprisoned in the Convent of Our Lady Nouveau, and hanged 195 soldiers who participated in the mutiny at her window. It is said that for a time, Sophia's window was covered with corpses. All ambitions have been dashed, all efforts have been wiped out, sophia has no choice but to end up depressed.