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	Nicholas II of Russia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His rule ended with the (The revolution against the Czarist government which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a provisional government in March 1917) Russian Revolution, during which he and his family were executed, in 1918.
		Only when Alexander was on his death bed, fearing for the succession of the Romanov dynasty, did he consent to the marriage of Nicholas to the German princess.
		It is likely that she believed her claim herself, but posthumous ((biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information) DNA analysis has shown it to be false.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ni/nicholas_ii_of_russia1.htm (2430 words)

	Encyclopedia: Nicholas II of Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tsarevich Alexei (1904-1918) Tsesarevich (Tsarevich) Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia (In Russian Ð¦Ð°Ñ€ÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ ÐÐ»ÐµÐºÑÐµÐ¹ ÐÐ¸ÐºÐ¾Ð»Ð°ÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡) (August 12, 1904 - July 17, 1918), of the House of Romanov, was a Tsarevich of Russia and was the youngest child of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra of Hesse.
		Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaevich Romanov (6 November 1856 - 5 January 1929) was a Russian general in World War I. A grandson of the Tsar Nicholas I, he was commander in chief of the Russian armies on the main front in the first year of the war, and was later a...
		Anger at the damage that Rasputin's influence was doing to Russia's war effort and to the monarchy led to his murder by a group of nobles, led by Prince Felix Yusupov, on December 16, 1916.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nicholas-II-of-Russia (6122 words)

	AllRefer.com - Romanov (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		The name Romanov was adopted in the 16th cent.
		Peter II was the last of the direct male Romanov line, and on his death Anna, duchess of Courland, a daughter of Ivan V, ascended the throne.
		See D. Lieven, Russian Rulers before the Revolution (1989); R. Masie, The Romanovs (1995), M. Steinberg and V. KhrustaEv, The Fall of the Romanovs (1995); J. Van der Kiste, The Romanovs, 1818–1959 (1998), and J. Perry and C. Pleshakov, The Flight of the Romanovs (1999).
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	The Game of Kings. Chaining the times
		Catherine II (1729-1796), empress of Russia from 1762, princess von Anhalt-Zerbst (German noblesse family) and Pavel I (1754-1801), emperor from 1796, son of Peter III (Peter III was son of Anna, one of Peter I the Great's daughters, and Charles Frederick, duke of Holstein-Gottorp) and Catherine II could also play chess.
		It should be noted that my great-grandfather Georgy Romanov, who was a judge in Siberia in the beginning of the XX century, could well be a distant relative of the boyars and tsars of Romanov dynasty.
		The Boyars Romanovs intermarried with the Rurik dynasty through Anastasiya Romanovna, who was the wife of Ivan IV the Terrible and mother of the tsar Fyodor Ivanovich.
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	Catherine II of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A cousin to Gustav III of Sweden and Charles XIII of Sweden, Catherine exemplified an "enlightened monarch" (also referred to as an "enlightened despot").
		A German Princess, Sophie Augusta Fredericka (nicknamed Figchen) was born in Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland), to Christian Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, and Elizabeth of Holstein.
		In 1744, Tsarina Elizabeth selected Sophie as the wife for her nephew, Peter, her chosen successor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catherine_II_the_Great (2133 words)

	ROMANOV - Online Information article about ROMANOV
		The Romanovs descended from Andrei, surnamed Kobyla, who is said to have come to See also:
		His son Feodor, surnamed Koschka, was the ancestor of the families of Suchovo-Kobylin, Kalytschev and Scheremetjev, as well as of the Romanovs.
		Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
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	The Moscow Weiss Lute Manuscript (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Russian throne was allied by marriage to several German noble families and much of the bitterness in the struggles for power in the Romanov family was due to the preference granted by various rulers to foreign influence, notably to the large number of Germans who dominated the administrative system.
		The Holstein Kapelle won acclaim for its performances with the Ducal choir during the three days of celebrations which followed the treaty with Sweden in 1721.
		The Royal court, inspired by Holstein’s example and the rise in demand throughout Europe for opera seria, became formally involved in recruiting foreign musicians in the early 1730s.
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