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  2. List of heirs to the Russian throne - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the individuals who were, at any given time, considered the next in line to inherit the throne of Russia or Grand Prince of Moscow. Those who actually succeeded (at any future time) are shown in bold. Stillborn children and infants surviving less than a month are not included. [1]

  3. Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia - Wikipedia

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    On the death of his father on 12 October 1938, Vladimir assumed the Headship of the Imperial Family of Russia. [3] In 1938 there were suggestions that he would be made regent of Ukraine but he rebuffed the idea, saying he would not help dissolve Russia. [5] During World War II, Vladimir was living in Saint-Briac-sur-Mer in Brittany. On June 26 ...

  5. List of Russian monarchs - Wikipedia

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    At his accession as the sole monarch of Russia in 1696, Peter held the same title as his father, Alexis: "Great Lord Tsar and Grand Prince, Autocrat of Great, Small and White Russia". [109] By 1710, he had styled himself as "Tsar and All-Russian Emperor", but it was not until 1721 that the imperial title became official. [109]

  6. Rota system - Wikipedia

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    According to the rota system concept, when the grand prince died, the next most senior prince moved to Kiev and all others moved to the principality next up the ladder. [7] [8] Only those princes whose fathers had held the throne were eligible for placement in the rota; if a man died before ascending to the throne, his sons were known as izgoi: they and their descendants were ineligible to reign.

  7. Russian nobility - Wikipedia

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    * The Russian Empire used the traditional Slavic title Knyaz, usually translated as "prince" in Western European traditions. ** Upon the death of Elizabeth of Russia, the male Romanov line was extinguished, and the Russian throne was inherited by Karl Peter Ulrich von Oldenburg, the heir apparent of the Duchy of Holstein-Gottorp.

  8. Factbox-Russia's nuclear arsenal: how big is it, and who ...

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    Russia, which inherited the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons, has the world's biggest store of nuclear warheads. Putin controls about 5,580 nuclear warheads, according to the Federation of American ...

  9. Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia - Wikipedia

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    The Romanov family had been canonized as holy martyrs in 1981 by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, which had developed among emigres after the Russian Revolution and the World Wars. After the decline of the Soviet Union, the government of Russia agreed with the Russian Orthodox Church to have the bodies of Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra ...