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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. |
 | | At any case, recent research of an English scientist, scrutinized the DNA of the inhabitants of Great Britain bearing one surname (and many never heard or knew anything about their namesakes), has shown that all of them were distant but still relatives. |
 | | 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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