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  Nicholas Romanov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nicholas Romanovich Romanov or Nikolai Romanovich Romanov (Николай Романович Романов), (born September 13, 1922) is the President of the Romanov Family Association.
Prince Nicholas was born in Cap d'Antibes near Antibes, France, the eldest son of HH Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia and HIllH Countess Prascovia Cheremeteva.
Prince Roman was the eldest son of TIH Grand Duke Peter Nikolaievich and Grand Duchess Militsa Nikolaievna, the former the younger son of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievich and Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna, the former a younger son of TIM Emperor Nicholas I of Russia and Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna, the former Princess Charlotte of Prussia.
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 Nicholas II of Russia
But Nicholas did not understand (since he had little input from the common people) how suspicious the common people were of his wife, both because she was German by birth and because of her affiliation with Rasputin, who was widely seen as a lecherous charlatan and a harmful influence on state policy.
Nicholas, Alexandra, and their five children remained in the royal residence The Alexander Palace[?], with decreasing staff until they were moved to Tobolsk[?] in Siberia in August 1917, an effort by the struggling Kerensky government to keep them safer than was possible in Tsarskoe Selo[?].
Nicholas abdicated in favour of his brother, who is sometimes referred to as Michael II but who did not reign.
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 Romanov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Godunov's revenge to the Romanovs was terrible: all the family and its relatives were deported to remote corners of the Russian North and Ural, where most of them died of hunger or in chains.
The early Romanovs were generally loved by the population as in-laws of Ivan the Terrible and innocent martyrs of Godunov's wrath.
Alexandra Fyodorovna brought to the Romanov family a mutated gene of her grandmother, Queen Victoria, which was responsible for her son's (the long-awaited heir to the throne, Alexei) hemophilia.
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 Wikinfo | Nicholas II of Russia
But Nicholas did not understand (since he had little input from the common people) how suspicious the common people were of his wife, both because she was German by birth and because of the destructive rumours that spread of her dependence on Rasputin.
Nicholas, Alexandra, and their five children remained confined in the royal residence The Alexander Palace, with decreasing staff until they were moved to Tobolsk in Siberia in August 1917, a step by Kerensky government to remove them from their residence in Tsarskoe Selo and essentially further from the centers of power and possible help.
Nicholas abdicated in favour of his brother, who is sometimes referred to as Michael II but who only reigned for a day before abdicating without naming an heir.
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 the romanov portal
All the consorts of the Romanovs had to be equal born (born to a sovereign house of Europe) and of the orthodox faith.
Nicholas and his wife Alexandra, their son Alexei and two of their daugthers are buried in Romanov family crypt in the Peter and Paul Cathedral.
Nicholas, wife and five children are canonized as passion bearers by the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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 The Romanovs: A Royal Family
Nicholas Romanov was born at Tsarkoe Selo on May 19, 1868.
Nicholas wasn't trained in being a tsar or the duties that came with it so when his father died in 1894, he was unprepared for his new role.
Nicholas and his family kept a secret from the Russian people that began to signal their unpopularity.
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 Nicholas II - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
NICHOLAS II [Nicholas II] 1868-1918, last czar of Russia (1894-1917), son of Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna.
Nicholas was educated by private tutors and the reactionary Pobyedonostzev.
The advance, in July, 1918, of counterrevolutionary forces caused the soviet of Yekaterinburg to fear that Nicholas might be liberated; after a secret meeting a death sentence was passed on the czar and his family, who were shot along with their remaining servants in a cellar at Yekaterinburg on the night of July 16.
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 Romanov
However, the slow pace of reform was simply not fast and effective enough, and the House of Romanov ultimately fell from power during the first Russian Revolution in 1917.
The last Romanov monarch, Nicholas II, and his immediate family were assassinated in the cellar of the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia on July 16, 1918.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union their supporters have campaigned for a return of a Romanov to the Russian throne, as a constitutional monarch.
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 PlanetPapers - Nicholas Romanov's Role in the Russian Revolution
Nicholas II was brought up by his father Alexander III who didn't believe that his son could take an intelligent interest in anything and therefore did not educate him in the business of state.
Nicholas II was 26 when his father died and was soon to marry the German princess, Alix of Hess, Granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
This shows that Nicholas had inherited many of his own flaws from his father so it is possible another tsar from the Romanov empire may not have been able to prevent the revolutions which were to come.
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 Nicholas II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nicholas II Nicholas II Nicholas II is most famous for being the last of the Romanov leaders.
Nicholas II however did not want to allow workers to unite and form unions as they were elsewhere in the world.
Nicholas II and his family were put under house arrest and in July of 1918 were murdered.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/history/russia/nicholas.html   (308 words)

  
 Holy Passion Bearer Tsar Martyr Nicholas
Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra, and his children Olga, Tatiana, Marie, Anastasia, and the crowned prince Alexis are considered to be martyrs of the Russian Revolution.
Nicholas collected all the courage he could muster and it was at the wedding of her older brother Grand Duke Ernest in 1894 that he proposed to her.
Nicholas Romanov II, the last Tsar of Russia was forced to abdicate his throne in favor of his son.
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 Romanov family
Nicholas II Romanov (1868-1918) ruled from 1894 to 1917, and was the last Tsar of the Russian Empire.
After Nicholas II resigned as Tsar, the Imperial family was moved to Tsarskoye Selo and put under house arrest while the Bolsheviks (a division of the Communists) were gaining power.
Nicholas Sokolov’s conclusions from his investigation of the murder of Nicholas II and his family.
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 Nicholas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nicholas I was born on May 25, 1796, in Gatchina near St. Petersburg, the third son of Emperor Paul I. Not considered likely to succeed to the throne, he received an education in military engineering.
Nicholas I came to throne after the death of his older brother Alexander I and the refusal of the second brother, Grand Duke Constantine, to accept sovereignty.
Nicholas attempted to resolve this by the partition of the Ottoman Empire.
www2.sptimes.com /Treasures/TC.2.3.16.html   (283 words)

  
 Nicholas Romanov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nicholas Romanov was the last Tazr of Imperial Russia.
Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov was born May 18, 1868 (NS) to Tsar Alexander III and Empress Marie Fedorovna of Russia.
Nicholas was the eldest son who was seen as too soft by his hard, demanding father who, not anticipating his own premature death, did nothing to prepare his son for the crown.
www.uwm.edu /People/mjteske/index.html   (525 words)

  
 Nicholas II of Russia - OrthodoxWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 1884, St Nicholas met the future Empress St. Alexandra, then Princess Alice Victoria Helen Louise Beatrix von Hessen-Darmstadt, at the wedding of the latter's sister, Grand Duches-Martyr St Elizabeth Fyodorovna with the Emperor's uncle, Grand Duke Sergey Alexandrovich.
Princess Alice was a daughter of Prince Ludwig von Hessen-Darmstadt and Princess Alice and a grand-daughter of Queen Victoria of England.
Nicholas and his family were glorified by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in 1981 but this was a hotly debated decision.
www.orthodoxwiki.org /Nicholas_II_of_Russia   (601 words)

  
 The Fall of the Romanovs - Maureen Perrie
Nicholas opted for concessions to the critics of his autocratic government, rather than repression.
Those who advised Nicholas to abdicate had hoped that this act would lead to greater stability and to the more effective continuation of the war under a constitutional monarchy headed by Nicholas's young son, Alexis.
But Nicholas knew little of military affairs, and his presence at Headquarters was more of a hindrance than a help to the generals.
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 Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov II Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov II Nicholas II was the last Tsar of Russia.
When Nicholas was 16, he met a pretty 12-year-old girl named Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt (she would change her name to Alexandra when she converted to Russian Orthodoxy in order to marry Nicholas).
Nicholas died at the age of 50 when he and his family were assassinated in a basement by Lenin's Bolshiveks.
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 Wikinfo | Romanov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tenuous ties of marriage existed between the Romanovs and the previous dynasty of Rurikids.
Bolshevik authorities killed the last Romanov monarch, Nicholas II, and his immediate family in the cellar of the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia on July 17, 1918.
However, despite the collapse of the Soviet Union and campaigning by their supporters for a return of a Romanov to the Russian throne as a constitutional monarch, it seems unlikely that they will ever regain power.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Romanovs   (451 words)

  
 My Family
Nicholas I ROMANOV (Tsar of Russia) and Charlotte of Prussia (Princess).
Nicholas I ROMANOV (Tsar of Russia) was born in 1796.
Nicholas I ROMANOV (Tsar of Russia) and Charlotte of Prussia (Princess) were married in 1817.
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 Romanov Dynasty
Mikhail Romanov was a weak ruler, his father Metropolitan Filaret was the real power until his death in 1633.
Nicholas I gained the throne of a troubled country in November 1825.
Nicholas made other reforms and together these came to be known as the Great Reforms.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/history/russia/romanov.html   (3163 words)

  
 Trenches on the Web - Bio: Czar Nicholas II of Russia
Nicholas II was born on May 6, 1868, in Tsarskoe Selo.
Nicholas had a nervous habit of always brushing his thick mustache with the back of his hand.
Nicholas felt he was not up to the task of ruling Russia.
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 Romanov tour - the last steps of the Russian Tsars
This is the place where Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov (and his secretary Brian Johnson) lived the last period of his life.
Visit of the Nicholas (Nikolai) Church and the hole in the yard - the place of confinement of Mikhail Nikitich Romanov (uncle of the first Romanov tzar) in 1601.
Excursion to Ganina Yama - the Romanov Monastery (at the secret mass grave of Nicholas II Romanov’s family), visit to the Monastery of Blood (the place of the former Ipatiev's house), the museum of Yekaterinburg's ethnography, exposing wax figures and authentic photos of the Emperor's family.
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 The Escape of Alexei. Son of Tsar Nicholas II
Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov (Nicholas II), the last Russian tsar, was born on May 6, 1868, the son of Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov (Emperor Alexander III) and Marie Feodorovna Dagmar (a Danish princess).
Nicholas ascended the throne on October 7, 1894, and was crowned on May 14, 1896.
Nicholas expected to arrive at Tsarskoe Selo on March 1 at three-thirty in the afternoon, but en route, at Malaya Vishera Station, it was discovered that the next large station, Lyuban, had already been occupied by revolutionary troops and that further passage by the imperial train would be dangerous.
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 Where Jews massacred a Royal Family
Czar Nicholas II and the Royal Family leave Tobolsk for Moscow on April 22, 1918.
The Romanov jewels were said to be in the hands of New York collectors.
On April 12, 1989, startling news came from the Soviet Union, that the bones of the Romanov royal family had been found in a mass grave in the Koptyaki Forest.
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 Royalty.nu - Nicholas and Alexandra - The Last Romanovs - Anastasia Romanov and Anna Anderson
The Quest for Anastasia: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Romanovs by Helen Mingay and John Klier supports the theory that Anna Anderson was a Polish factory worker.
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter by Robert K. Massie, gives new information about the Romanovs' deaths, the discovery of their bodies, and the women (including Anna Anderson) who claimed to be Anastasia.
Nicholas and Alexandra is a very good documentary that includes footage of the tsar and his family.
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 Csar Nicholas II Romanov
Nicholas Romanov the II was Anastasia's beloved father.
Nicholas and his wife (Anastasia's mother on the far right) Alexandra were, even after 24 married years, passionately in love.
The Romanov family was the last royal imperial family,..from the 1600's till the early 1900's.
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 HERMITAGE MUSEUM ONLINE SHOP: Portrait of Nicholas II
Nicholas II (1868-1918) was the last Emperor of Russia.
This portrait of Nicholas II derives from a bust of him created in 1896 by Leopold Bernstamm, the Emperor's favorite sculptor.
In his diary, Nicholas recorded several occasions when he and members of his family posed for Bernstamm.
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 Nicholas II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nicholas II Nicholas II, the last Russian Emperor, was the eldest son of Alexander III and was born on May 6, 1868.
According to contemporaries, Nicholas was gentle and approachable.
In foreign policy, Nicholas II took steps to stabilize the international situation, initiating two peace congresses at The Hague.
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 Nicholas & Alexandra Romanov Home Page
Nicholas and Alexandra were the last crowned Tsar and Tsarista of Russia.
The Nicholas and Alexandra Exhibit that briefly toured the US has returned to Russia, however, you can still visit the website.
Nicholas and Alexandra had five beautiful children during their 23 years of marriage.
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 Romanov
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