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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]
A restoration of the Russian monarchy is a hypothetical event in which the Russian monarchy, which has been non-existent since the abdication of Nicholas II on 15 March 1917 and the execution of him and the rest of his closest family in 1918, is reinstated in today's Russian Federation.
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 ...
But though the deaths of the Romanovs would capture imaginations for years, it would take more than half a century for the family's remains to be discovered, and far longer for Russia's last ...
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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.
A brief history of Ipatiev House, the fortified mansion where the Romanovs were held captive and executed on that fateful morning in 1918.