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Tsarevna Anna Mikhailovna was the fourth child and third daughter of Michael Romanov and Eudoxia Streshneva. She was born in Moscow on 14 July 1630 and baptised by Patriarch Philaret in the Monastery of the Miracle. She never married and entered the Convent of the Ascension in the Moscow Kremlin as Sister Anphisa on 24 October 1692. Died in Moscow on 27 October 1695 and buried in the Convent of the Ascension. Reburied in the Archangel Cathedral in 1929.