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The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death [2] [3] by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918.
Alexander II: The Last Great Czar. Freepress. ISBN 978-0743284264. "Church of the Savior on Blood, St. Petersburg". Sacred Destinations; Hartnett, L. (2001). "The Making of a Revolutionary Icon: Vera Nikolaevna Figner and the People's Will in the Wake of the Assassination of Tsar Aleksandr II". Canadian Slavonic Papers.
The Tsar remained quite impassive and indulgent; he spent most of that autumn hunting. [73] With the defeat of Russia by a non-Western power, the prestige and authority of the autocratic regime fell significantly. [74] [g] Tsar Nicholas II, taken by surprise by the events, reacted with anger and bewilderment. He wrote to his mother after months ...
The 1944 edition of the Almanach de Gotha records the name of Russia's ruling dynasty from the time of Peter III (reigned 1761–1762) as "Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov". [11] However, the terms "Romanov" and "House of Romanov" often occurred in official references to the Russian imperial family.
At his accession as the sole monarch of Russia in 1696, Peter held the same title as his father, Alexis: "Great Lord Tsar and Grand Prince, Autocrat of Great, Small and White Russia". [109] By 1710, he had styled himself as "Tsar and All-Russian Emperor", but it was not until 1721 that the imperial title became official. [109]
Ivan Dmitriyevich (Russian: Иван Дмитриевич, nicknamed as Ivaska the Little Rebel/Criminal, Russian: Ивашка Ворёнок; 5 January [O.S. 26 December 1610] 1611 – 16 July [O.S. 6 July] 1614) was the only son of False Dmitry II of Russia ("Rebel/Criminal of Tushino", Russian: Тушинский вор) and his wife Marina Mniszech, daughter of Polish Voivode Jerzy ...
Michael Romanoff, actually a Lithuanian-born eccentric named Harry F. Gerguson, claimed for decades before his death in 1971 that he was the nephew of the last Tsar. Though his story and assumed name were discredited quickly, he continued to be a minor celebrity in Hollywood , where he operated the highly popular Romanoff's Restaurant.
ruler first crowned Tsar: 11 October 1552: son born to tsar: Vladimir of Staritsa 1547–1552, cousin: Ivan IV: Dmitry Ivanovich: Heir apparent: son: 11 October 1552: born: 26 June 1553: died: Yuri Vasilievich 1552–1553, uncle Yuri Vasilievich: Heir presumptive: brother: 26 June 1553: tsar's son died: 28 March 1554: son born to tsar: Vladimir ...