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	RUSSIAN IMPERIAL SUCCESSION, by BRIEN HORAN
		Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolayevich was attacked for his role in persuading Nicholas II to abdicate, thus precipitating the fall of the dynasty.
		In 1889, Grand Duke Peter Nikolayevich of Russia married Princess Militza of Montenegro,[65] a daughter of an Orthodox sovereign, Prince Nicholas I of Montenegro.
		The 1924 accession manifesto specified Grand Duke Kirill as Emperor and Grand Duke Wladimir as Grand Duke-Tsesarevich.
	www.chivalricorders.org /royalty/gotha/russuclw.htm (15580 words)

	Nicholas II of Russia Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Russia was in turmoil, which was organized by undercover Bolshevik agents, and his decrees and orders quite often met with resistance in the upper layers of the government, especially in the Russian Duma or parliament.
		The last Russian Tsar and all his family, including the gravely ill Alexei were brutally murdered in the basement of the Ipatiev House where they had been imprisoned in on the night of July 16 (or 17), 1918 by a band of Bolsheviks led by Yakov Yurovsky.
		Following a long series of bureaucratic and political delays, the purported remains of the family were reinterred in the Romanov family crypt in 1998 on the 80th anniversary of their murder.
	www.rxsheet.com /encyclopedia/n/ni/nicholas_ii_of_russia.html (1543 words)

	SIXTH GENERATION
		Czarina Marie Alexandrovna of Hesse-Darmstadt Empress of Russia was born in 1824.
		ii. HIH Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandrovich of Russia was born in 1843.
		vii. HIH Grand Duke Serge Alexandrovich of Russia was born in 1857.
	www.royalgenealogy.com /d94.htm (127 words)

	Romanovs of Russia \| The Last Imperial Children of Russia
		Alexei was also rude and bad temper as a child; he once gave a misfortunate person a bloody noise by a kick in the face, while that person bowed down to the little prince.
		Alexei was spoiled and cherish by those around him, his mother never forgave herself that her only son got that terrible disease and never dared to turn her baby away with a negative saying or expression.
		Alexei was a handsome boy with bluish grey eyes and his hair was golden as a child, and as he got older, his hair became darker with a coppery glint.
	www.freewebs.com /romanovsofrussia/tsarevichalexei.htm (1091 words)

	Marie of Hesse and by Rhine - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Princess Maximilienne Wilhelmine Marie of Hesse and the Rhine (8 August, 1824-8 June, 1880) was a princess of Grand Ducal Hesse and, as Marie Alexandrovna, Empress consort of Alexander II of Russia.
		Karl Ludwig was son of Karl Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden (1728 - 1811) and Carolina Louise, Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt (1723 - 1783).
		Karl Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden was son of Friedrich Magnus, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1703 - 1732) and Anna Charlotte Amalie, Princess of Orange (1710 - 1777).
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Maria_Alexandrovna_of_Hesse (965 words)

	Famous Russian women - Information portal about Russia and russian women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Russia concluded "The Eternal Peace" with Poland in 1686, and the Nerchinskii Treaty with China in 1689.
		Elizabeth Petrovna (1709-62), empress of Russia (1741- 62), born near Moscow, the youngest daughter of Peter the Great and Catherine I. She became empress in 1741 by staging a palace revolution that deposed the infant emperor Ivan VI and his mother Anna Leopoldovna, who acted as regent.
		Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia was a tall, well-built, strong man. Remembered by his family for his ability to bend iron rods, Alexander had been secretly in love with his deceased brother's future wife.
	www.7upinfo.org /famous-russian-women.html (13355 words)

	RussianImperialSuccession
		As discussed in Footnote 3, Grand Duke Kirill, who was third in line to the Russian throne at the time of the March 1917 abdication of Nicholas II, succeeded as head of the dynasty in July 1918 upon the execution of Nicholas II and the latter's son and brother.
		Grand Duke Kirill (and to a much lesser extent, his uncle, Grand Duke Paul, only surviving son of the Tsar-Liberator, Alexander II) were criticized for their dealings with the Provisional Government in the days prior to the abdication of Nicholas II.
		Grand Duke Wladimir was head of the house for more than 53 years, from 1938 to 1992, the longest tenure in the history of the dynasty.
	www.riuo.org /RussianImperialSuccession/russianimperialsuccession.html (14164 words)

	RoyaltyDigest
		Kremlin to Investigate Ekaterinburg Survivors' Claim-Royalty Digest-Posibility of the survival of the Tsarevitch and Grand Duchess Anastasia to be investigated-Russia-3-378-36
		Prince Dimitri of Russia-Obituary-Prince Dimitri Alexandrovich of Russia, grandson of Tsar Alexander III-Russia-10-17-109
		Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Oldenburg-Obituary-Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Oldenburg widow of the last reigning Grand Duke of Oldenburg-Russia-12-279-141
	www.picrare.com /Royalty_Digest/RDTableOfContents/RDContentsRussia.htm (3084 words)

	ALEXANDER II OF RUSSIA FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Insofar as he had any decided political convictions, Alexander seemed to be imbued with the reactionary spirit predominant in Europe at the time of his birth, and which continued in Russia to the end of his father's reign.
		Both Grand Duke Paul and his son Prince Vladimir_Paley (1897-1918), a remarkable poet, were killed by the Bolsheviks.
		Fortunately for Russia the autocratic power was now in the hands of a man who was impressionable enough to be deeply influenced by the spirit of the time, and who had sufficient prudence and practicality to prevent his being carried away by the prevailing excitement into the dangerous region of utopian dreaming.
	www.amysflowershop.com /en:Alexander_II_of_Russia (1813 words)

	Articles - Maria Alexandrovna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		She was the youngest of seven children born to Wilhelmine of Baden, Grand Duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt (1788 - 1836), the younger four appearing to have been fathered by Baron Auguste Senarclens de Grancy.
		Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia (14 January 1850 - 14 November 1908).
		Married Elizabeth Alexandra Louise Alice von Hessen, daughter of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom.
	bronzebass.com /articles/Maria_Alexandrovna_(Marie_of_Hesse)?... (633 words)

	Jewels of the Romanovs Costumes and Portraits - Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich
		ED-480-X, The Grand Duke was one of the three sons of Alexander II.
		A return trip to Americas took place in 1877, when the Grand Duke accompanied a squadron of four Russian naval vessels that made port at Norfolk, Virginia.
		Alexei became Admiral of the Russian Navy in 1888.
	www.alexanderpalace.org /jewels/gda.html (178 words)

	boys clothing: European royalty--Russia Nicholas II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Nicholas married the daughter of Grand Duke Ludwig of Hessen, Alice Victoria Eleanor Louisa Beatrice (Alexandra Feodorovna).
		Alexander was a mountain of a man and renowed throughout Russia for his strength and vigor.Alexander III died on October 20, 1894, in Livadia, Crimea, and was buried in the Cathedral of the St. Peter and St. Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg.
		Dagmar became engaged to the eldest son of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, the Tsarevitch Nicholas, in the summer of 1864 during the war with Prussia and Austria.
	histclo.hispeed.com /royal/rus/royal-rus2n.htm (2875 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: List_of_Russians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For a long time Russia has been a multinational country, and many people of different nationalities contributed to its culture, to its glory, and to its sorrow.
		They may have emigrated or immigrated, and thus may appear in other "Lists of...", but nevertheless their names are linked to the words "Russia", "Russian".
		Alexey Pavlovich Okladnikov (1908-1981), archeologist, historian, and ethnographer
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=List_of_Russians (727 words)

	Volume Two
		Alexei’s Blood: The Alternate Hypothesis by John M.L. Kendrick…Despite the complete absence of documented proof, popular belief continues to claim that the only son of Emperor Nicholas II was a hemophiliac whose hemorrhaging episodes were cured by the healing powers of the infamous Grigory Efimovich Rasputin.
		Russia’s Alexander II had little sympathy for Denmark's blatant disregard of the 1852 Treaty of London and the 1460 Treaty of Ripen.
		But had there been, the antics of the Russian Grand Dukes would have been, as they say, "good copy." From St. Petersburg to Moscow and south to the Caucusus, or west to Paris, Biarritz, San Remo, and Monte Carlo, their behavior was frequently outrageous and always larger than life.
	www.atlantis-magazine.com /intro/issuetwo.htm (1878 words)

	boys clothing: European royalty--Russia in exile
		Her father turned out to be the Grand Duke Paul, whio was the uncle of Nicholas II, not his brother.
		Kyrill proclaimed himself Tsar of Russia in Paris in 1924 after it was officially confirmed that Nicholas II and his family had been murdered by a Bolshevik death squad.
		A reburial was arranged by the Grand Duchess Wladimir of Russia, Leonida Georgiyevna, the widow of his son, Grand Duke Vladimir Kyrillovich.
	histclo.com /royal/rus/royal-rus4e.htm (1513 words)

	Nicholas II of Russia - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Nicholas II, Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov, Russian: Nikolai II (6 May 1868 (O.S.) = 18 May 1868 (N.S.) - 4 July 1918 (O.S.) = 17 July 1918 (N.S.)) was the last reigning Emperor of Russia and of the Romanov Dynasty.
		The Russian Orthodox Churches in Russia and Abroad strongly contest the claim that the bodies were those of the Imperial Family.
		Following a long series of bureaucratic and political delays, the remains of the family were reinterred in the Romanov family crypt in 1998 on the 80th anniversary of their murder.
	www.questionz.net /20th_century/Czar_Nicholas_II.html (1339 words)

	NCSJ- Moscow Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The letter in which Alexander II writes about the birth of the Grand Duke Vyacheslav and Lincoln's congratulatory reply are part of a new exhibit called "Russian American" that recently opened at the State Historical Museum.
		According to a copy of his itinerary at the museum, the then 21-year-old grand duke visited half a dozen major cities, traveled to Niagara Falls and inspected a Colt gun factory.
		Alexei Alexandrovich was received so enthusiastically in New York that local butchers placed on their counters chicken made to resemble the Russian imperial double-headed eagle.
	www.ncsj.org /AuxPages/072301MTimes.shtml (882 words)

	Nicholas: The Last Tsar
		Alexei Nikolaevich, the first son of Nicholas and Alexandra was born on July 30, 1904, following the births of four daughters.
		The problem of who would rule Russia in case of an accident to Nicholas was solved.
		Nicholas II was forced to end the Romanov rule over Russia after three hundred years, as he forfeited the throne on March 2, 1917 because of the Russian Revolution.
	www.onlineessays.com /essays/biographies/bio041.php (890 words)

	Alexander II of Russia - Dangeruss-Industries.com
		As such, he was also the Grand Duke of Finland 1855-1881.
		He was born the eldest son of Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia, daughter of Frederick William III of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
		On April 16, 1841 he married Princess Marie in St. Petersburg, the daughter of the Ludwig II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, thereafter known as Marie Alexandrovna.
	www.dangeruss-industries.com /results/Alexander_II_of_Russia.html (2081 words)

	Worldroots.com
		The remains of the Grand Duke have been brought to St Petersburg from Coburg, in Germany, and will be laid to rest in the grand ducal tomb during a midday ceremony.
		Kyrill proclaimed himself Tsar of Russia in Paris in 1924 after it was officially confirmed that Nicholas II and his family had died at the hands of Bolshevik death squad.
		Nikolai N Braun, acting head of The Order of Imperial Union of Russia said he would prefer to see the last Russian tsar buried in the imperial rather than the grand ducal tomb.
	worldroots.com /brigitte/famous/v/vladimirovich.htm (360 words)

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		In pre-Petrine Russia grand princes and tsars were buried in the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael in the Moscow Kremlin.
		But from 1831, by order of Nicholas I, grand dukes and their families were also buried in the Peter and Paul Cathedral.
		The tombs of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich and Grand Duchesses Alexandra and Maria Nikolayevna were cleaned and polished.
	imperator.spbnews.ru /nw/english/sobor_en.html (2254 words)

	Faberge - Treasures of Imperial Russia
		As was often the case in Russia, Nikolai's brother, Alexander,married the rich young widow that same year, in what was probably a marriage of convenience, as the prenuptial agreement apparently left everything in her own name.
		It was probably as benefactress of the Imperial Women's Patriotic Society Schools, the beneficiaries of the Fabergé Exhibition held in 1902 at the von Dervis Mansion on the English Embankment, that Vavara lent her Fabergé silver surtout.
		The exhibition, the first and only one dedicated to Fabergé in Russia, was held under the patronage of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and a bevy of Grand Dukes and Duchesses and realized a profit of 3,000 rubles for the schools.
	www.treasuresofimperialrussia.com /e_chap13_kelch.htm (1353 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He married the daughter of Grand Duke Ludwig of Hessen, Alice Victoria Eleanor Louisa Beatrice (Alexandra Feodorovna), and had five children.
		In 1904-1905, the country suffered a heavy defeat by Japan -- 400,000 men were killed, wounded or captured, and material losses were valued at 2.5-billion gold rubles.
		Even greater losses, however, were suffered in World War I, which Russia entered on the Allied side on August 1, 1914.
	www.webdesignerswa.com /russia/programs/index41.html (352 words)

	Russian resources. Russian Imperial Family links
		Religious, Cultural, and Social Life of Russia's Imperial House
		The Kulikovsky family (descendants of HIH Grand Princess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia)
		Sarah Hale: "Relations between Russia and Sweden, 1801-1814.
	www.geocities.com /dagtho/russia.html (134 words)

	Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
		Tsar Nicholas II Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov was born May 18, 1868 (NS) to Tsar Alexander III and Empress Marie Fedorovna of Russia.
		Unlike the majority of royal couples, Nicholas and Alexandra were genuinely in love, much to the chagrin of his father, Alexander III and his mother, Empress Marie, who favored a more political match for Russia's future to that of the unpopular German princess.
		Nicholas felt he was God's annointed to rule Russia and took his role very seriously.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/9463/nicholas.html (758 words)

	Jewels of the Romanovs
		Organized by a committee of lending institutions in Russia and a cultural foundation in New York, the event marks the anniversary of the 1871 state visit of Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich, son of Alexander II, to the United States.
		The Grand Duke's visit was at the invitation of President Ulysses S. Grant, in appreciation of Russian support in blockading Southern ports during the Civil War.
		Originally populated by Slavs, and linked to the same ancestors as the nations of Eastern Europe, Russia was also settled by Vikings, from whose language the word "Rossya" was derived.
	www.antiquesandthearts.com /archive/roman.htm (1968 words)

	Jewels of the Romanovs Costumes and Portraits - Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		ED-480-X, The Grand Duke was one of the three sons of Alexander II.
		A return trip to Americas took place in 1877, when the Grand Duke accompanied a squadron of four Russian naval vessels that made port at Norfolk, Virginia.
		Alexei became Admiral of the Russian Navy in 1888.
	www.alexanderpalace.com /jewels/gda.html (178 words)

	McCook Daily Gazette: Story: Camp Hayes event marks important point in history
		It was a memorable event for the Grand Duke, who had been sent to the United States largely to get him away from a wife of which his father did not approve.
		The duke continued to correspond with Custer until the latter's death at the Little Bighorn, and spoke of the hunt often, until his death in Paris in 1908.
		This year's "Grand Duke Alexis Rendezvous" at Camp Hayes promises to be one of the best ever, a fitting memorial to Reggie Vlasin, an active member of the Hayes Center Lions Club who helped found the event six years ago and who passed away recently at 45 after a courageous battle with cancer.
	www.mccookgazette.com /story/1278820.html (518 words)

	Russia
		As with many royal families which have not reigned for a considerable period of time, disputes have arisen as to who should be considered the head of the family and heir to the right to be claimant to the throne.
		However, some argue that because Kirill's mother had never converted to Orthodoxy all three of her sons were ineligible to succeed.
		Friedrich Ludwig, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Ludwigslust 13 Jun 1778-Ludwigslust 29 Nov 1819)
	pages.prodigy.net /ptheroff/gotha/russia.html (3130 words)

	Nicholas II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Czarevich Alexei suffered from hemophilia and was a permanent invalid.
		During his reign, Russia was involved in two wars.
		In 1904-5, the country suffered a heavy defeat by Japan -- 400,000 men were killed, wounded or captured, and material losses were valued at 2.5-billion gold rubles.
	www2.sptimes.com /treasures/TC.2.3.19.html (364 words)

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