| abstract | - Fedor Ivanovich Sheremetev (ca. 1570-1650) served as the de facto head of government from 1613-18 and again from 1642-46, both time during the reign of Tsar Michael. Sheremetev descended from the same old Moscow line as the Romanovs. In 1605 he was made a boyar by False Dmitry I. In 1610, he became one of the so called Seven Boyars - a self-appointed provisional government. Sheremetev took an active part in the Zemsky Sobor of 1613; he's ascribed famous words (in a letter to prince Golitsyn, perhaps apocryphal): "Let's elect Misha Romanov, he is young and stupid, he will be obedient to us". From 1613 to 1618, he was the informal head of government. In 1618, he took part in bringing forth the Treaty of Deulino. Patriarch Filaret, after his return from captivity in 1619, pushed Sheremetev aside from state affairs, for the latter disapproved of Filaret's straightforward anti-Polish policy. After Filaret's death in 1633, Sheremetev came back to politics. In 1634, he was a head of Russian delegation (together with Alexey Lvov) in Russo-Polish negotiations and signed the Treaty of Polyanovka.
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