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| Tsar Nicholas II (May 6, 1868 - July 4, 1918) Memory Eternal! | Empress Alexandra (1872 - 1918) Memory Eternal! | ||||||||||||||||
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A History of the Romanov Dynasty & The Russian Monarchy In February 1613, amidst the filth and debris left by foreign invaders in the great Kremlin Palace, an obscure sixteen-year-old prince named Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov was proclaimed Tsar and Autocrat of All the Russias. He was to establish a dynasty that would determine the destiny of Russia for three centuries. A line of dynastic rulers would come in his wake: Alexei--who would raise Russia to a position of importance in Eastern Europe; Peter the Great--who would build an invincible army and a new capital, St. Petersburg, and forcibly bring Russia out of the Middle Ages and into the modern world; and in the eighteenth century a succession of three extraordinary empresses, Anna, Elizabeth, and Catherine the Great, who would break with the tradition of supreme male authority. Catherine would bring the ideas of the Enlightenment to Russia and create a court whose splendor would rival that of Versailles. At its height in the mid-nineteenth century, the empire of the Romanovs comprised more than one sixth of the earth's surface. It was a "whole world, self-sufficient, independent, and absolute"--flaunting the greatest wealth in Europe. Its culture, both rich and brilliant, would continue to shine, decades after the demise of its imperial benefactors. This was the world that ended with the murders of the last of the Romanovs: Nicholas II and Alexandra, and their five children. | |||||||||||||||||
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