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Romanov Dynasty and the Russian Revolution.

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  • 1543

    Roman Yurev

    Roman Yurev
    Roman Yurev died in 1543 and the Romanovs adopted his name.
  • 1547

    Anastasiya Romanovna Zakharina-Yureva and the Terrible.

    Anastasiya Romanovna Zakharina-Yureva and the Terrible.
    In 1547 Anastasiya Romanovna Zakharina-Yureva, one of his descendants, married Ivan IV, the Terrible.

  • Period of anarchy

    In 1584, after the death of the Terrible, a period of anarchy began in Russia, which was not resolved until February 21, 1613, when the assembly of nobles elected as king the first Romanov, Miguel I, who ruled until 1745,
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    Time of Troubles

    Is the period of the political crisis in Russia that followed the demise of the Rurik dynasty and ended with the establishment of the Romanov dynasty.
    Russia endured 15 chaotic years, which ended when a Zemsky Sobor (“Assembly of the Land”) elected Nikita’s grandson, Michael Romanov, as the new tsar.

  • Miguel I (1613 - 1645)

    When Miguel I came to the throne, he found an impoverished, broke kingdom, isolated, and ultrareligious country.
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    No pattern of succession

    The Romanovs did not establish a regular pattern of succession until 1797.
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    Romanov Dynasty

    Romanov dynasty were rulers of Russia from 1613 until the Russian Revolution of February 1917.

  • Alexéi (1645 - 1676)

    During the first century of their rule, they generally followed the custom of passing the throne to the tsar’s eldest son or, if he had no son, to his closest senior male relative.

  • Fiódor (1676 - 1682)

    He ruled 6 years

  • Ivan V & Pedro I 1682

    But after Fyodor’s death, both his brother Ivan and his
    half-brother Peter vied for the throne. Although a Zemsky sobor chose Peter as the new tsar, Ivan’s family, supported by the streltsy, staged a palace revolution; and
    Ivan V and Peter I jointly assumed the throne in 1682.

  • Pedro I (1682-1725)

    After Peter became sole ruler in 1696, he formulated a law of succession which gave the monarch the right to choose his
    successor.

  • Catalina I (1725-1727)

    Peter left the throne to his wife, Catherine I, who was
    a Romanov only by right of marriage.

  • Pedro II (1727-1730)

    The throne reverted to Pedro I’s grandson Pedro II.

  • Ana (1730-1740)

    Ivan V’s second daughter, Anna, became empress.

  • Ivan VI (1740-1741)

    He ruled one year.

  • Elizabeth (1741-1761)

    Elizabeth, daughter of Peter I and Catherine I. With Elizabeth, the Romanovs of the male line died out in 1762, but the name was conserved by the branch of the house of Holstein-Gottorp.

  • Pedro III (1761-1762)

  • Catalina II (1762-1796)

    From 1762 to 1796 Peter III’s widow, a German
    princess of the house of Anhalt-Zerbst, ruled as Catherine II

  • Pablo (1796-1801)

    With Pablo, Peter III’s son, a Romanov of Holstein-Gottorp became emperor again.

  • Alejandro I (1801-1825)

  • Constantine & Nicolás I

    The succession following Alexander’s death was confused because the rightful heir, Alexander’sbrother Constantine, secretly declined the throne in favor of another brother, Nicholas I, who ruled from 1825 to 1855.

  • Alejandro II (1855-1881)

  • Alejandro III (1881-1894)

  • Michel II

    On March 2 of 1917, Nicholas II abdicated the throne in favor
    of his brother Michael II,

  • Nicholas II (1894-1917)

    Nicholas and all his family were immediately executed in July 1918 at Yekaterinburg.