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Nicholas II of Russia and family The last tsar of Russia, Nicholas II of Russia , was assigned to mtDNA haplogroup T , based on mutations 16126C, 16169Y, 16294T, 16296T, 73G, 263G, and 315.1C. His results matched those of a cousin, Prince Nikolai Trubetskoy , but showed a heteroplasmy – a mix of two different sequences – indicating a recent ...
Nicholas II (Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov; [d] 18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868 – 17 July 1918) or Nikolai II was the last reigning Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917.
Wilhelm II and Nicholas II were third cousins (both were great-great-grandsons of Paul I of Russia) as well as being second cousins once removed (both were descended from Frederick William III of Prussia). Wilhelm was also a first cousin of Nicholas's wife, Alix of Hesse, and the eldest grandson of Queen Victoria of the United
Visiting Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: August 27: Elisabethenburg Palace, Meiningen: Visiting Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen: August 27 — August 28: Reinhardsbrunn, Friedrichroda: August 28 — September 3: Schloss Friedrichsthal, Gotha: Visiting Karoline Amalie, Dowager Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg: September 3: Wartburg ...
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days—which was longer than those of any of her predecessors —constituted the Victorian era .
Victoria, the Princess Royal and first child of Victoria and Albert (21 November 1840 – 5 August 1901), known as "Vicky", was not only the mother to their first grandchild, Wilhelm II; she was also the first of Victoria and Albert's children to become a grandparent, with the birth in 1879 of Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, who was the ...
A French cartoon depicting a stereotypical mandarin in Manchu robe as Queen Victoria (Great Britain), Kaiser Wilhelm II , Tsar Nicholas II , and a samurai cut into a king cake inscribed with the word Chine . France is represented as Marianne, with a hand on the shoulder of Nicholas II, suggesting the Franco-Russian Alliance
Eastwell Park as it appeared between 1843 and 1894 (south facade). Marie was the eldest daughter and second child of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, and the former Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, respectively the son of Queen Victoria and the daughter of Emperor Alexander II.