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 Romanov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The early Romanovs were generally loved by the population as in-laws of Ivan the Terrible and innocent martyrs of Godunov's wrath.
When the Romanov family celebrated the tercentenary of its rule, in 1913, the solemnities were clouded by numerous bad omens.
One of her critics is the Romanov Family Association which claims as members all male-line descendants of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Romanov   (2872 words)

  
 Romanov - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
ROMANOV [Romanov], ruling dynasty of Russia from 1613 to 1917.
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.
The marriage of Nicholas II to Princess Alix of Hesse (Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna) brought hemophilia into the family; their son, Czarevich Alexis (1904-18), was afflicted with the disease.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-romanov.html   (846 words)

  
 Romanov family
By A.A. and K.D. The age of the Romanovs abruptly ended with the brutal slaughter of the Imperial family.
Nicholas II Romanov (1868-1918) ruled from 1894 to 1917, and was the last Tsar of the Russian Empire.
This was to dissolve the rumors of the family’s death.
www.richeast.org /htwm/ROMAN/ROMANOV.HTM   (2440 words)

  
 Amazon.de: The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga: English Books: John Curtis Perry,Constantine V. Pleshakov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The tragedy of the Romanovs, the doomed imperial family of Russia, was the tragedy of the entire country.
This fast-moving account of the past century and a half of the Romanov family is thorough, dramatic, and shows in great detail the chasm between the well-to-do and the peasant working class, a gap that led to revolution.
The fact is that most of the imperial family didn't have a clue about the world outside their royal cocoon and were ill-prepared to understand the rapid sweep of events that led to the loss of their status, power, money and, for some, their lives.
www.amazon.de /Flight-Romanovs-Family-Saga/dp/0465024629   (1161 words)

  
 The Romanovs Today   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Romanov Family association was created in 1979 with the specific purpose of strengthening the bonds between as many members of the family as possible.
Today the role of the members of the Romanov Family is to actively foster charitable, cultural and educational projects in Russia, thus also contributing to building a bridge of utmost value between the country's historical past and the present, the Romanov Fund for Russia holding an important position in respect of these activities.
Prince Nicholas Romanovich Romanov is the Head of the Romanov Family and of the Imperial House of Russia.
www.regalis.com /romanov.htm   (355 words)

  
 Royalty.nu - Nicholas and Alexandra - The Last Romanovs - Anastasia Romanov and Anna Anderson
The family was canonized as royal martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in 1981.
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.
www.royalty.nu /Europe/Russia/Anastasia.html   (4215 words)

  
 Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov, Dictator of the Month February, 2003
The last Russian Tsar and all his family, including the gravely ill Alexei, along with several family servants, were executed by firing squad in the basement of the Ipatiev House where they had been imprisoned, on the night of July 16 (or 17), 1918 by a detachment of Bolsheviks led by Yakov Yurovsky.
The concealment of the execution of the Royal Family and of their bodies led to rumours for many years that the Emperor or some members of his family were still alive.
In the suffering borne by the Royal Family in prison with humility, patience, and meekness in their martyrs deaths in Ekaterinburg in the night of 4/17 July 1918 was revealed the light of the faith of Christ that conquers evil."
www.dictatorofthemonth.com /Romanov/Feb2003RomanovEN.htm   (2099 words)

  
 FabergeGifts.com - Faberge Imperial Eggs, the perfect gift.
One of the things that is most interesting about the Fabergé family is its history and the strong connection it has with the history of Russia through ties to the Romanov family.
The connections of the Romanov family led to other royal families of Europe, and like the limbs of a tree the fame of Fabergé spread.
The disease was pivotal to the demise of the Romanov dynasty.
www.fabergetheperfectgift.com /family.html   (793 words)

  
 Family Names - Romanov Genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Several Romanov descendants from morganatic marriages are not entitled to the old family name - their official title is (or should be) "Prince/Princess Romanovski/Romanovskaja".
Strictly according to the protocol, only those family members whose parents are of equal noble birth are entitled to the title "Prince(ss) Romanov(a)".
Thus, in the records all Romanovs, Romanoffs and Romanovskis are treated equally and called simply "Romanov", although perhaps some genealogists may not fully approve of this.
members.surfeu.fi /thaapanen/surnames.html   (378 words)

  
 YAM Summer 2003 -The Golden Hours of the Romanov
The Romanov family photo albums will be on display to the public this winter, starting October 23-25, when Yale marks the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg with a history symposium.
According to Massie's introduction in The Romanov Family Album, the Beinecke photographs were actually the property of one of Empress Alexandra's best friends, Anna Vyrubova, who lived and traveled with the family and took many of the pictures herself.
In April of 1918, the family and some of their entourage were moved from Siberia to Ekaterinburg in the Ural mountains.
www.yalealumnimagazine.com /issues/03_07/Romanovs.html   (1466 words)

  
 ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Romanov Prophecy by Steve Berry
So began the Romanov dynasty, which continued unbroken until July 16, 1918, when Nicholas II and his family were executed.
Interestingly, Mikhail, the first Romanov, was found at the Ipatiev Monastery in Siberia where he'd taken refuge with his mother, and the last Romanov, Nicholas II, was murdered in the Ipatiev house located in the Siberian town of Yekaterinburg.
The family stayed there eight months, during which time the Provisional Government was overthrown by Lenin and the Bolsheviks in a bloodless coup that came to known as the October Revolution.
www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/romanov_prophecy1.asp   (1685 words)

  
 Ipatiev House - Romanov Memorial - The Final Chapter
Avdonin was born in the city and during his childwood, had the opportunity to meet Piotr Ermakov, one of Romanov executor, as well as several other people involved in the Romanov family's execution.
In July 1993, Gill and Ivanovs estimated the probability of the remains belonging to the Romanov as being 98.5%.
Exactly 80 years after their execution by bolshevicks in Ipatiev house, on July 17 of 1998, the last Czar of Russia and his family were buried in the crypt of St Petersburg's St Peter and Paul Cathedral.
www.romanov-memorial.com /Final_Chapter.htm   (1345 words)

  
 Russian Archives Online > The Gallery > A Romanov Album > Family History
The Romanov family ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917.
The Romanov family was popular with all classes of people, including the lower ranks of the gentry and city dwellers, though the new tsar was only 17 at the time of his coronation and without any political experience.
Catherine ruled after his death and was succeeded by several weak relatives until the last was ousted by Peter the GreatÍs daughter Elizabeth (ruled 1741-1761), who began the Asian conquests that enlarged the Russian Empire to one-sixth of the worldÍs surface.
www.pbs.org /redfiles/rao/gallery/romanoff/hist.html   (675 words)

  
 Restaurant Romanov
The restaurant Kasakka has offered the best in traditional Russian delicacies for more than 30 years, and its logo - the coat of arms of the Romanov family - was the inspiration for naming the new restaurant.
Under the Romanov dynasty Russia rose to be a world power and brought civilization and culture to the country.
Romanov saw the introduction of live musical entertainment and there is a piano for customers' use in the larger room downstairs.
www.romanov.fi /uk_index.htm   (792 words)

  
 February 5, 1996 - Library of Congress Information Bulletin
This is precisely how the Law Library acquired its unique copy of the Sokolov Commission documents, investigative case files from the first inquiry into the murder of the Romanov family in 1918, begun just weeks after their assassination in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
The story of the execution of the czar's family in the early hours of the morning of July 17, 1918, is now known in all its bloody details.
As we now know, the imperial family was killed because the city where they were being held by the Red Army was soon to be overrun by the anticommunists.
www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/9602/romanov.html   (1194 words)

  
 The Romanovs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
At the beginning of July 1918 suspicion arose among the top Jewish Bolshevik leaders that the soldiers who were guarding the imperial Romanov family at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg were undergoing a change of attitude -- they were beginning to show signs of sympathy for the Romanovs.
The Romanov family and several of their assistants were taken to a room where they were told that a photo was going to be taken of them.
One of the people present at the murder of the Romanov family -- Medvedev, aka Medvedoff, a Russian -- later told his wife that he was the only Russian among the key actors in the murders, of course meaning that most of the killers were Jews, as has been noted by many Romanov biographers.
wsi.matriots.com /Romanovs.html   (531 words)

  
 anastasia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The purpose of HIH Grand Duchess Anastasia Historical Society is to advance the theory that Anna Anderson Manahan was indeed the youngest daughter of Tsar Nikolai Romanov II of Russia.
The family would often be found going to official ceremonies or church dedications, on one such event Anastasia upon entering a carriage had a footman accidently close the door on her left hand.
One evening when the family was sitting together and the Tsar was reading from a book, a guard came in and searched the room, apparently unable to find what he was looking for he left, only to return again still unable to determine the answer to his query.
www.concentric.net /~Tsarskoe   (4231 words)

  
 Royal Russia and the Imperial Romanov Family
Although significant volumes of information are available on high profile members of the Romanov family, I am interested in and pursue knowledge of all the members of the family from Mikhail I through the present descendants represented throughout the world in quiet anonymity and European royal families.
The Tsar, as head of the family, country and church, was the determining factor in how one's life progressed.
She was called the little mother of Moscow and was one of the most beloved members of the imperial family.
www.geocities.com /siteforromanov   (533 words)

  
 Romanov Family Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Romanov Family Association, Obyedineniye Chlenov Roda Romanovykh (Объединение Членов Рода Романовых), is an organization for male-line descendants of Emperor Paul I of Russia.
Romanov Family Association claims as members all male-line descendants of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia.
This is debatable: on one hand, at the time of their marriage, Grand Duke Vladimir was the Head of the Imperial Family of Russia and Titular Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, and he approved the marriage.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Romanov_Family_Association   (1555 words)

  
 Romanov Saints
It was the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia that glorified the Romanov family in New York in 1982.
In an interview with a western reporter, the Tsar said that eventually the empire would break up from what it was in history as the new national movements led to a greater desire of the peoples of the empire for independence and self-determination.
Alexander Roman made many positive comments in his answer to why or why not the Tsar and the entire Royal Family of Romanovs were martyred and could or could not be canonized...but I'm afraid he didn't really answer the person's question.
www.unicorne.org /orthodoxy/articles/alex_roman/romanov.htm   (1594 words)

  
 Romanov Dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Upon Catherine's death in 1796, her son Paul inherited the throne as the thirteenth Romanov ruler.
On July 16-17, 1918 at midnight, the last of the czars, Nicholas II, and his entire family, were massacred at Ekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains, upon orders from bolsheviks.
This was the end of the Romanov Dynasty - one of the most influential families in Russia.
www.2-russia.com /romanov-dynasty.asp   (1302 words)

  
 Nikolai Romanov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Like the Czar's family the Romanovs had large palaces outside St. Petersburg and in the Crimea, where the summer palace of Djulber lay.
Prince Roman Romanov was on "HMS Marlborough" that carried Dagmar to safety in 1919, and his memoirs, "It was a rich house, a happy house" help us to understand Dagmar's last years in Russia.
Prince Nikolai Romanov now lives in Switzerland and is now regarded as the head of the Romanov family and thus pretender to the Russian throne should the people of Russia ever want to reinstate the monarchy.
www.dr.dk /aroyalfamily/person_nikolai.htm   (185 words)

  
 Romanov Royal Family Tree   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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of the murder of the family in 1917.
Family Tree: The Grand Ducal House of Tuscany XIV Issue: November - December 1999 The Belgian Royal...
bestgenealogyresources.com /romanovroyalfamilytree   (1382 words)

  
 RIA Novosti - Russia - Member of royal Romanov family to attend church service to commemorate Nicholas II
Member of royal Romanov family to attend church service to commemorate Nicholas II PETERSBURG, July 15 (RIA Novosti, Maxim Nichiporenko) - Duke Dmitry Romanov, a member of the Russian Romanov dynasty, arrived here Friday to attend a church service to commemorate Emperor Nicholas II and his family members, canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church.
The duke is expected to donate a 19th century icon of Christ the Savior, which belonged to the Romanovs, to the Easter Sunday Cathedral, currently under reconstruction, near the oldest cemetery, Smolenskoye.
The Romanovs for Russia Foundation co-headed by Dmitry Romanov will hand over equipment to a local kindergarten for blind and partially blind children and to the rehabilitation center for the visually impaired.
en.rian.ru /russia/20050715/40913249.html   (302 words)

  
 The Imperial Romanov Family
Since 1990, the mystery of the Romanovs was one taht was not forgotten.
Momory to the death of the tsar family.
Memory to the death of the tsar family lets I here candle burn, this night the 88 years have been suffered that assassination took place in Jekaterinnenburg.
groups.msn.com /TheImperialRomanovFamily   (247 words)

  
 Russian Royal Family - The Romanov Pretenders
When the Russian Orthodox Church was finally convinced of the martyrdom of the Royal Family, His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow and All of Russia held a memorial service for all the members of the Imperial Romanov Family forty days after the event.
John Godl has deep loving respect for the Imperial Romanov Family of Russia, and has given us an outstanding presentation of the truth in his article on Anna Anderson, who thought she was Grand Duchess Anastasia, but after her death several years ago we discovered who she really was - Franziska Schanzkowska.
There is little reason to doubt chief executioner Yakov Yurovsky's account of the disposal of the Imperial Family's remains, as his report detailing their disposal led investigators a generation later directly to the site of the mass grave, and he never attempted to hide anything.
www.serfes.org /royal/romanovpretenders.htm   (2529 words)

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