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Revision as of 11:57, May 22, 2021
The House of Romanov was the ruling family of Russia from 1613 to 1917. The first Romanov tsar was Michael I. His line ended with Elizabeth, who died 1762. The succeeding Holstein-Gottrop family was renamed as "Romanov" and is generally treated as a continuation of the dynasty. The last tsar was Nicholas II, who abdicated in 1917 at the start of the Russian Revolution.
Tsars of Russia (1613-1917)
- Michael (r. 1613 - 1645), son of the patriarch of Moscow. He was chosen tsar by a Zemsky Sobor (assembly of the land).
- Alexis (r. 1645 - 1676)
- Feodor III (r. 1676 - 1682)
- Ivan V (r. 1682 - 1696)
- Peter I (r. 1682 - 1725), byname "Peter the Great." First tsar to be proclaimed emperor (1721)
- Catherine I (r. 1725 - 1727, co reigned from 1724 - 1725)
- Anna of Russia (r. 1730 - 1740)
- Ivan VI (r. 1740 - 1741)
- Elizabeth (r. 1741 - 1762)
House of Holstein-Gottorp
Peter III was a son of Anna, daughter of Peter I, and Charles Frederick, duke of Holstein-Gottorp.
- Peter III (r. 1762 - 1762)
- Catherine II (r. 1762 - 1796), wife of Peter III.
- Paul (r. 1796 - 1801). Issued the "Pauline Laws," Russia's first succession law.
- Alexander I (r. 1801 - 1825)
- Nicholas I (r. 1825 - 1855)
- Alexander II (r. 1855 - 1881)
- Alexander III (r. 1881 - 1894)
- Nicholas II (r. 1894 - 1917)
Heads of the House of Romanov (1917-1992)
- Tsar Nicholas II (1917-1918) (after abdication)
- Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich (1918-1938). Proclaimed "curator of the throne" in 1922 and "emperor" in 1924.
- Vladimir Kirillovich (1938-1992), son of Kirill.
Vladmir lived in Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, Brittany until 1942, when the Nazis arrested him and put him in a concentration camp. When he died in Florida in 1992, his daughter Maria Vladimirovna claimed the right to succeed. "Both sexes have the right of succession to the Throne; but this right belongs by preference to the male sex according to the principle of primogeniture; with the extinction of the last male issue, succession to the Throne passes to the female issue by right of substitution," according to the succession law.[1] All the same, Maria's succession is not recognized by Almanach de Gotha.[2]
Reference
- ↑ Article 27, "Fundamental Laws of the Russian Empire" (1906). This article is copied from the Pauline Laws of 1797 (Article 5).
- ↑ Gotha calls Vladimir "the last Head of the Imperial House of Russia, Titular Emperor Vladimir Kirillovich." (James, John. Almanach de Gotha, 2016)