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| | HISTORY OF THE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN DYNASTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Wladimirs son and successor, Yaroslav (d 1054), had two surv sons, the elder Sviatoslav II (d 1076), Prince of Tchernigov, was ancestor of Saint Michael (d 1246), ancestor of the Princely families of Gortchakov, Eletzky, Volkonsky, Bariatinsky, Repnine, Obolensky, Stcherbatov, and Dolgoroukov. |
 | | Emperor Nicolas II was the last Tsar to rule but signed an act of abdication (which probably illegally purported to exclude the Tsarevich) in favour of his brother Michael 3/15 Mar 1917, who delegated governance to the Duma which was then dissolved by the Petrograd Soviet 25/4 Nov 1917. |
 | | Astrakhan, Siberia and Novgorod and on the sinister wing with the arms of the Grand Duchies of Kiev, Taurica and Finland and the Kingdom of Poland. |
| www.chivalricorders.org /royalty/gotha/russhist.htm (1046 words) |
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