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ROMANOV , the name of the See also:

Russian imperial See also:dynasty, regnant in the male See also:line from 1613 to 1730, and thenceforward in the See also:female line. The Romanovs descended from Andrei, surnamed Kobyla, who is said to have come to See also:Moscow from See also:Prussia about 1341 to enter the service of the See also:grand-See also:duke Semen (d. 1353). His son Feodor, surnamed Koschka, was the ancestor of the families of Suchovo-Kobylin, Kalytschev and Scheremetjev, as well as of the Romanovs. Feodor's See also:grandson, Sakhariya Ivanovich, was a See also:boyar of Vasilii V., grand-duke of Moscow at intervals between 1425 and 1462, and the See also:family took its name from his grandson See also:Roman, whose daughter Anastasia Romanovna married the See also:tsar See also:Ivan the Terrible. Her See also:brother Nikita Romanovich married the princess Eudoxia Alexandrovna, a descendant of Andrei Jaroslavovich, grand-duke of Susdal-See also:Vladimir (d. 1264), and in this way the Romanovs were - linked up with the See also:ancient royal See also:house of Rurik. The Romanovs suffered heavily in the disorders following on the See also:death of Ivan. Some were executed and others exiled. Nikita's son Feodor (the See also:archimandrite See also:Philaret) was banished, but was recalled by the false See also:Demetrius. In 1610 he was imprisoned by the See also:king of See also:Poland, but his piety and virtues led to the See also:election of his son, Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov, to the See also:throne of the tsars in 1613. Philaret became See also:patriarch of Moscow in 1619, and supported his son's See also:government until his death in 1634.

Mikhail was seventeen when he began his reign, and died in 1645. He was succeeded by his son See also:

Alexis, whose three sons, Feodor III., Ivan II. and See also:Peter 4. (the See also:Great), inherited the throne. After the two years' reign of Peter's widow, Ekaterina Aleksievna Skavronska (See also:Catherine I.), his grandson, Peter Aleksievich (Peter II.), succeeded. He died in 1730, and the See also:succession devolved on the family of Ivan II., on his daughter See also:Anna (1730-4o) and his great-grandson Ivan III., and in 1741 on See also:Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great. Peter's See also:elder daughter, Anna, had married See also:Charles See also:Frederick of See also:Holstein-Gottorp, and with the See also:accession of her son, Peter III., in 1762 begins the See also:present reigning dynasty of Holstein-Gottorp or See also:Oldenburg-Romanov. See R. Nisbet See also:Bain, The First Romanovs (1905); P. V. Dolgorukov, See also:Notice sur See also:les principales families de la Russie (2nd ed., See also:Berlin, 1858).

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