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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.
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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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The chronicle cites him as the progenitor of the Rurik Dynasty.
In the 11th century and the 12th century, the princes and their retinues, which were a mixture of Slavic and Scandinavian elites, dominated the society of Kievan Rus′.
The leader of the Rurik Dynasty united a large territory inhabited by East Slavs into an important, albeit unstable, state.
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 Royal family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Family trees of ruling and former ruling European Dynasties (in French)
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 Lviv   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In 1323, the Romanovich dynasty (local branch of the Rurik Dynasty) died out.
The City was inherited by the heir of the Romanovich dynasty (on his mother's side) - Boleslaus of Masovia (also from the Piast dynasty on his father's side).
The harsh laws imposed by the Habsburg dynasty led to an outbreak of public dissent in 1848.
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