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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.
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.
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
Many descendants of the former ancient Russian aristocracy, including royalty, saw their formal standing change to merchants, burghers, or even peasants, while people descended from serfs (like Vladimir Lenin's father) or clergy (like in the ancestry of actress Lyubov Orlova) gained formal nobility.
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.
In September 1912, Alexei and his family visited their hunting retreat in the Białowieża Forest. On 5 September Alexei jumped into a rowboat and hit his groin on the oarlocks. A large bruise appeared within minutes but in a week reduced in size. [31] In mid-September, the family moved to Spała (then in Russian Poland). On 2 October, Alexei ...
Princes Gantimurovy (descendants of the Tungusian chieftain Gantimur, a vassal to China) Princes Gedianovy (Tatar, descendants of Mirza Gedian who entered vassalage to Ivan the Terrible) Princes Gedianovy (Tatar) Princes Gelovani (Georgian high nobility) Princes Genghis (3 branch of the family) (Kazakh royal family descended from Khan Abulhair ...
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.