Romanovs

Then came Navy Captain P.W.T. (Paddy) Hanmer, whose reign of almost 20 years had roughly the same effect on Muirfield as Peter the Great did on the Court of the Romanovs.

At night the Romanovs played cards or read; they received little mail from the outside world, and the only newspapers they were allowed were outdated editions.

Certainty about the remains would definitively put an end to the claim that Anna Anderson could be connected with the Romanovs, as all remaining bodies would be accounted for.

In 1820 a new law also stipulated that only children of Romanovs born of marriages with persons of equal status, i.e., members of a "royal or sovereign family", could transmit succession rights and titles to descendants.

Rather than risk their estates in more civil war, the great nobles or boyars cooperated with the first Romanovs, enabling them to finish the work of bureaucratic centralization.

She was persuaded by her family there to travel to the Crimea by train with a group of other refugee Romanovs.

The direct male line of the Romanovs came to an end when Elizabeth of Russia died in 1762.

The early Romanovs were generally accepted by the population as in-laws of Ivan the Terrible and viewed as innocent martyrs of Godunov's wrath.

Viktor Chernov, p. 17 Moreover, all the Romanovs despised his decision; Duchess Maria Pavlovna wasn't the only one who feared the Empress would "be the sole ruler of Russia".

W. Bruce Lincoln, The Romanovs, p. 409. This particular Monday dawned very cold, with temperatures of −8 degrees Celsius.

W. Bruce Lincoln, The Romanovs, p. 425. This failure was followed by lost battles at Balaklava and Inkerman.