Romantic Life
Sophia's relationship with Prince Galitzine had no necessarily erotic overtones and did not imply any romantic attachment. Galitzine had a wife and a large family at a time when the boyars were still attached to the Domostroy, a matrimonial code from Ivan IV's reign. Several early 18th-century memoirs gave birth to rumors that Galitzine had been Sophia's lover. Some see the evidence for this in the tone of Sophia's correspondence with him in 1689. In any case, a romantic interaction between the two could not begin when they met under Fyodor’s rule. Fyodor entrusted great confidence in Galitzine, and there remains no evidence Sophia and Vasily acted against customs that would have kept them apart until after his death. There is no suspicion of any relations until the letter in 1689, even during the period of Galitzine’s rise to power.
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