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However, the terms "Romanov" and "House of Romanov" often occurred in official references to the Russian imperial family. The coat-of-arms of the Romanov boyars was included in legislation on the imperial dynasty, [12] and in a 1913 jubilee, Russia officially celebrated the "300th Anniversary of the Romanovs' rule". [13]
Maria's parents' marriage of equal rank is, of course, questioned by her cousins, who claim that her mother's family, the Bagrationi dynasty, became Russian subjects after they lost their thrones in the Georgian kingdoms of Kartli-Kakheti and Imereti around 1800 and was therefore not a ruling dynasty. By the Romanov House law, the Pauline Laws ...
With that event, the ruling dynasty of the Russian Empire became the House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov, while the female-line heirs continued to refer to themselves simply as the House of Romanov. As there were some nobles with titles and estates in both the Russian and Holy Roman Empires , Russia adopted the German form Herzog or "Gertsog ...
Elizabeth declared her nephew, Peter, to be her heir. Peter, who would rule as Peter III, was a German prince (with a Romanov mother) of the House of Holstein-Gottorp before arriving in Russia to assume the imperial title. He and his German wife Sophia (who had distant Rurikid ancestry) changed their name to Romanov upon inheriting the throne.
The official position of the Romanov Family Association is that the rights of the family to the Russian Throne were suspended when Emperor Nicholas II abdicated for himself and for his son Tsarevich Alexei in favour of his brother Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich who then deferred ascending the Throne until a Constituent Assembly ratified his rule.
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (Russian: Георгий Михайлович Романов, romanized: Gěorgij Mihajlovič Romanov, also spelled Romanoff; German: Georg Michailowitsch Romanow; born 13 March 1981) is the heir apparent to Maria Vladimirovna, a claimant to the disputed Headship of the Imperial Family of Russia. [1]
Charles Ferdinand, Prince of Capua (top), with his morganatic wife, the Anglo-Irish commoner Penelope Smyth (left), and their daughter, Vittoria (right).. Morganatic marriage, sometimes called a left-handed marriage, [1] is a marriage between people of unequal social rank, which in the context of royalty or other inherited title prevents the principal's position or privileges being passed to ...
Ivan Romanov: Heir presumptive: uncle: 26 July 1613: nephew became tsar: 9 March 1629: son born to tsar: Nikita Romanov, son: Michael: Tsarevich Alexei Mikhailovich: Heir apparent: eldest son: 9 March 1629: born: 14 July 1645: became tsar: Ivan Romanov 1629–1640, granduncle Nikita Romanov 1640–1645, cousin Nikita Romanov: Heir presumptive ...