Feodorovna Grand Duchesses

Something I was wondering about while reading through The Life & Times of the Duchess of Cumberland by Valena, and then again when I saw what she and Emperor Constantine have done in their TL Apollinis et Dianae, is the effects of longer lived Czar Feodor III Alexeïevich of Russia.


But what if Feodor had lived only long enough to father a daughter by Marfa Apraxina, or his child by Agafia Gruchetszkaya was born a girl? How would Russia/the Romanovs react if Feodor dies and leaves a daughter, Maria Feodorovna, as his heiress? Does she succeed ahead of Ivan V and Peter the Great? And if she does, who becomes regent for her? Her maternal family? Grand Duchess Sophia? Someone else? Would the Romanovs go Habsburg and marry her to Ivan or Peter, or do we see another dynasty take root in Russia, and if so, who?



And then, a follow-up question: what if Feodor lives long enough to father multiple daughters, but no sons? What happens to these girls? Sent to the terem? Married to various Rurikids (such as are left)?


Personally, I feel this is a woefully neglected idea in althistory.[FONT=&quot][/FONT]
 
No, girls were not worth a thing here if there were men in a family (in this case Ivan and Pyotr). As for odds of marriage - not enough of important Rurikids, though they may end up like Ivan's daughters OTL. Also, depends on who the mother is. If Polish aristocrate Agafia does outlive her husband, she'll be a bit more active than non-entity Marfa. And no 1682 rebellion is much more interesting for Russian history than any (useless) girls.
The daughters only started to matter when the male line was extinct, so the only thing the PoD 1 does is turning Ivan's OTL line into non-entities (in OTL the claim of Anna and her niece/grandnepher was based on the fact they were senior female line).
 
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