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Peter the Great (1672–1725) reformed the Russian nobility. Nobility was transferred by inheritance or was bestowed by a fount of honour, i.e. the sovereign of the Russian Empire, and was typically ranked as per below, with those of the highest noble prestige ranked first. Ancient nobility (descendants from Middle Ages) Titled nobility:
Princes Bezborodko (descendants of Cossack Hetmanate senior ranks; the branch descended from Count Alexander Bezborodko raised to titular princes (styled as 'serene highness') in 1797) Princes Beznosov (non-titled Rurikids from the Monastyroyv family) Princes Beloselsky (Rurikids, a branch of the Belozersky princely family)
Count (since 1812) Noble family of Don Cossacks origin, ataman Matvei Platov (1751–1818) founded Novocherkassk. Count of the Russian Empire in 1812. He was awarded an honorary degree of low by the University of Oxford (1814). Grabbe family: 18th – today Count (since 1866) Don Cossacks noble family of a Finnish nobility origin.
Gagarin family; Gamontov (Russian nobility) Gantimurov family; Garakanidze; Garsevanishvili; List of Georgian princely families; House of Golitsyn; Gorchakov; Grabbe family; Greig (Russian nobility) Gruzinsky; Gugunava; Guramishvili; Gurgenidze (noble family)
The Hitler family comprises the relatives and ancestors of Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945), an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party, who was the dictator of Germany, holding the title Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler from 1934 to 1945.
Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova was born into a rich and ancient Russian noble family, as one of five daughters of Nikolai Avtonomovich Ivanov and his wife, Anna Ivanovna Davydova. Her sisters were: Feodora Nikolayevna Zhukova (b. 1715), Marfa Nikolayevna Izmailova (b. 1738), Agrafiona Nikolayevna Tyutcheva and Tatiana Nikolayevna Muravyova .
Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, and his immediate family were executed in 1918, but there are still living descendants of other members of the imperial house. The house consisted of boyars in Russia (the highest rank in the Russian nobility at the time) under the reigning Rurik dynasty, which became extinct upon the death of Feodor I in
The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death [2] [3] by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918.