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The Romanov Family Association (RFA) is an organization of legitimate male-line descendants of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia. While extensive, it by no means includes all of the House of Romanov or all Romanov descendants; Maria Vladimirovna has never joined and neither did her late father, Vladimir Cyrillovich.
However, the terms "Romanov" and "House of Romanov" often occurred in official references to the Russian imperial family. The coat-of-arms of the Romanov boyars was included in legislation on the imperial dynasty, [12] and in a 1913 jubilee, Russia officially celebrated the "300th Anniversary of the Romanovs' rule". [13]
Members of the ruling Russian imperial family, the House of Romanov, were executed by a firing squad led by Yakov Yurovsky in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on July 17, 1918, during both the Russian Civil War and near the end of the First World War. Afterwards, a number of people came forward claiming to have survived the execution.
The Romanov portraits were shot between 1915 and 1916, only months before their 1917 execution at the hands of Lenin The Romanovs' final days, as seen through the eyes of Anastasia Skip to main ...
The Romanov family was canonised as passion bearers by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000. Alexei is sometimes known to Russian legitimists as Alexei II after his ancestor Alexis of Russia, as until his death they do not recognise the abdication of his father in favor of his uncle Grand Duke Michael as lawful. [4]
The two dynasties sat down to dinner aboard the yacht Victoria and Albert in the summer of 1909, nine years before the murder of the Romanovs.
People still insist, even today, on referring to what happened to the Romanov family as a execution. It was not. Nor was it an assassination, for even that word suggests a degree of planning and ...
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia (Russian: Мария Владимировна Романова, romanized: Maria Vladimirovna Romanova; born 23 December 1953) has been a claimant to the headship of the House of Romanov, the Imperial Family of Russia (who reigned as Emperors and Autocrats of all the Russias from 1613 to 1917) since 1992.