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Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825
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Russia Symbol  Aleksei, the Second Romanov Tsar

  
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Samuel Collins (1619–70)
The Present State of Russia, in a letter to a friend at London; written by an eminent person residing at the Tzars court at Mosco for the space of nine years
London: Printed by J. Winter, for D. Newman, 1671
NYPL, Rare Books Division

This engraving of Tsar Aleksei (r. 1645–76) may have been taken from life and therefore may be among the earliest depictions of a Russian head of state. Collins was a physician imported to treat the Russian elite.