Michael Romanov Elected Tsar

February 21, 1613

Sixteen years old and hiding with his mother in a monastery near Kostroma, Michael Fyodorovich Romanov was informed by a delegation of boyars that a Zemsky Sobor had elected him tsar. He accepted tearfully. The Time of Troubles was over; the Romanov dynasty had three centuries ahead of it, ending only in revolution and a basement in Yekaterinburg.