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House of Romanov
Романовы
Parent house
Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp (since the mid-18th century)[a]
Country
List
Russian Empire
Tsardom of Russia
Congress Kingdom of Poland
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Grand Duchy of Finland
Grand Duchy of Oldenburg
Duchy of Courland and Semigallia
Duchy of Holstein
Order of Malta
Founded
21 February 1613 (1613-02-21)
Founder
Michael I
Current head
Disputed since 1992:
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia (Great-great-granddaughter of Alexander II of Russia) (disputed)
Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen (Great-great-great-grandson of Alexander II of Russia)
Prince Alexis Andreievich (Great-great-great-grandson of Nicholas I of Russia)
Final ruler
Elizabeth I (agnatic line)
Nicholas II (cognatic line)
Titles
Tsar of all Russia (1613–1721)
Emperor of all Russia (1721–1917)
Other titles...
Connected families
Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, House of Windsor, Saltykov family, Rakhmanov
Deposition
1917 (February Revolution)
Cadet branches
Several minor branches
The House of Romanov[b] (also transliterated as Romanoff; Russian: Романовы, romanized: Romanovy, IPA:[rɐˈmanəvɨ]) was the reigning imperial house of Russia from 1613 to 1917. They achieved prominence after Anastasia Romanovna married Ivan the Terrible, the first crowned tsar of all Russia. Nicholas II and his immediate family were executed in 1918, but there are still living descendants.
The house consisted of boyars in Russia (the highest rank in the Russian nobility at the time) under the reigning Rurik dynasty, which became extinct upon the death of Feodor I in 1598. The Time of Troubles, caused by the resulting succession crisis, saw several pretenders and imposters lay claim to the Russian throne during the Polish occupation. On 21 February 1613, the Zemsky Sobor elected Michael Romanov as tsar, establishing the Romanovs as Russia's second reigning dynasty.
Michael's grandson, Peter I, who took the title of emperor and proclaimed the Russian Empire in 1721, transformed the country into a great power through a series of wars and reforms. The direct male line of the Romanovs ended when Elizabeth died childless in 1762. As a result, her nephew Peter III, an agnatic member of the House of Holstein-Gottorp (a cadet branch of the German House of Oldenburg that reigned in Denmark), ascended to the throne and adopted his Romanov mother’s house name.[1] Officially known as members of the House of Romanov, descendants after Elizabeth are sometimes referred to as Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov.[2]
The abdication of Nicholas II on 15 March [O.S. 2 March] 1917 as a result of the February Revolution ended 304 years of Romanov rule and led to the establishment of the Russian Republic under the Russian Provisional Government in the lead-up to the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922. In 1918, the Bolsheviks murdered Nicholas II and his family. Of the House of Romanov's 65 members, 47 survivors went into exile abroad.[3] In 1924, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, the senior surviving male-line descendant of Alexander II of Russia by primogeniture, claimed the headship of the defunct Imperial House of Russia.
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