The Decembrist Revolution of 1825 failed to wrest power from the first Romanov czar to bear this name
[DOC] [TLE] The First of the Romanov Tsars is Crowned | History Today [PAR] When Tsar Ivan the Terrible died in 1584 he was succeeded by Fyodor, the elder 
... in an illustration of the first Romanov coronation by Matevev, 1613When Tsar 
Ivan ... Fyodor was not quite right in the head and the power behind the throne 
was Boris ... where he was made to take vows as a monk under the name 
Philaret.