Video : Sofia Alekseyevna Declares Herself Regent

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Ilya Repin's 1879 painting portrays Sophia after her fall from power, confined to a cell in the Novodevichy Convent. Also in the painting, outside the window, a hanging Strelets shows the fate of those who sought to reinstate her.

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| Artist: Ilya Repin | Credit: http://www.art-catalog.ru/picture.php?id_picture=4253

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