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Apraxina, Marpha Matveyovna b. 1664 d. January 11, 1714
Russian Czarina. Born the daughter of Domna Bogdanovna Lovchikova and Matvey Vasilievich Apraxin, she became the second consort of Fyodor Alexeiovich III 'The Feeble' in 1682, mere months after he had been widowed. She herself was widowed within months of the wedding. They had no children. Her name has also been recorded as Marfa Matveievna Apraksina and Martha Apraxina. (Bio by: Iola)
Petropavlovskaya Krepost, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Catherine II the Great b. May 2, 1729 d. November 17, 1796
Russian Monarch. Known as "Catherine the Great of Russia", she was born Princess Sophia Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst. She was brought to Russia in 1744 at the behest of ruling Czarina Elizabeth I to marry Elizabeth's nephew Peter. She changed her name to Catherine when she converted to the Orthodox Church prior to the wedding. After bearing one son, Paul, the marriage turned bad, and she became isolated from Peter's court. When Elizabeth died, Peter became Czar Peter III in January 1762. A poor...[Read More]
Cause of death: Stroke
Petropavlovskaya Krepost, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Elizabeth I (Petrovna) b. December 28, 1709 d. January 5, 1762
Russian Monarch. Daughter of Peter "the Great" and Martha Skawronskaja (later known as Catherine I.). On December 6. 1741 she rode in front of the guards from the barracks of the Preobrashenskij Guards to the Winter Palace. She woke up the regent Anna Leopoldowna, and the 15 month old Tsar Iwan VI.. He was later brought to the Schlusselburg where he was killed. In 1742 she secretly married Alexej Rasumowskij, a former shepherd who came to the court as a member of the choir under Anna...[Read More] (Bio by: Lutetia)
Petropavlovskaya Krepost, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Of Baden, Louise b. January 24, 1779 d. May 26, 1826
Russian Tsarina. Born Louise Marie Augusta, Princess of Baden, she was the daughter of Prince Karl Ludwig and Amalia of Hesse-Darmstadt. She married Tsarevitch Alexander Pavlovitch on October 9, 1793 at the Winter Palace, and took the name Elizaveta Alexeievna upon her conversion to the Russian Orthodox church. She was 14, the tsarevitch was 17. Alexander ascended the throne as Tsar Alexander I in 1801. Their marriage was an unhappy union, and both took a series of lovers. Their two children...[Read More] (Bio by: VampireRed)
Petropavlovskaya Krepost, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
of Russia, Maria Fedorovna b. November 26, 1847 d. October 13, 1928
Russian Monarch. Born Princess Maria-Sophia-Frederica-Dagmar, she was the second daughter of the King Christian IX. In 1866 she married the Russian heir to the throne, later Alexander III. Upon her marriage she converted to the Russian Orthodox faith and changed her name to Maria Fedorovna. She had 6 children, one of them Tsar Nicholas II. Throughout her life she took part in charity and contributed to improve the Russian education system. During the First World War she made a great effort as...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
Petropavlovskaya Krepost, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Peter I the Great b. June 9, 1672 d. February 8, 1725
Russian Monarch. The Tsar of Russia, he is best remembered for having instituted many needed reforms, for modernizing Russia, and for bringing it into Europe as a modern power. He was considered a far-sighted and skillful diplomat, as well as a talented military leader. Born Peter Alexeevich Romanov to Tsar Alexis and his second wife, Natalia Naryshkina, in Moscow, during one of the more turbulent times for Russia. When his father died in 1682, he was declared Tsar, but was forced to share...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Petropavlovskaya Krepost, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Peter III b. February 21, 1728 d. July 17, 1762
Tsar of Russia. According to the old Julian calendar Russia was still using at the time, he was born on February 10, 1728; the date on the modern Gregorian calendar was February 21. He was the son of Duke Karl Friedrich of Holstein-Gottorp and Peter the Great's daughter Anna, and was originally given the name Karl Peter Ulrich. He became the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp when his father died in 1739. Until age fourteen, he lived and received his schooling at the court of Holstein. In November of...[Read More] (Bio by: Carrie-Anne)
Petropavlovskaya Krepost, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Romanov, Alexander II Nicholaevich b. April 17, 1818 d. March 1, 1881
Russian Monarch. Imperial House of Romanov. Czar-Liberator, Emperor & Autocrat of all the Russias. Czar Alexander II was the son of Czar Nicholas I. Alexander II married Maria of Hessen-Darmstadt in 1841. Alexander II became Emperor on Feb 9, 1855 after the death of His Majesty's father. Czar Alexander II began a series of reforms as a result of Russia's defeat in the Crimean War. These reforms included trial by jury, reducing censorship, and establishing town councils. Czar Alexander II also...[Read More] (Bio by: john hinkle)
Petropavlovskaya Krepost, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Romanov, Alexander III Alexandrovich b. March 10, 1845 d. October 20, 1894
Russian Monarch. Imperial House of Romanov. Grand Duke Alexander became Emperor of All the Russia's upon the death of His Majesty's father, Czar-Liberator Alexander II. In 1866, Grand Duke Alexander married Princess Dagmar of Denmark, known as Czarina Marie. Alexander III was Czar from 1881-1894 and reversed some of the reforms of the Czar-Liberator. Emperor Alexander III refused to grant the constitution which the Czar-Liberator was on the verge of signing before His Majesty's murder. Czar...[Read More] (Bio by: john hinkle)
Petropavlovskaya Krepost, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Romanov, Alexandra b. June 6, 1872 d. July 17, 1918
Russian Tsarina. Born Alix Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice vonHesse in Darmstadt, she was the daughter of Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and Princess Alice, daughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain. Alix met Tsarevitch Nicholas Romanov at the wedding of her sister Ella to Nicholas' uncle Grand Duke Sergei in 1884. Nicholas was immediately smitten. They began a correspondance, and became engaged in 1894, the same year Nicholas became Tsar. They were married on November 26, 1894 at the Winter...[Read More] (Bio by: VampireRed)
Petropavlovskaya Krepost, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Romanov, Alexis Nicholaevich b. July 30, 1904 d. July 17, 1918
Russian Nobility. The only son of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, the Tsarina Alexandra. Stricken by hemophilia, he could not live a normal life, as his tutor wrote "he enjoyed life, when it let him". He was adored by his parents and sisters, being very mischevious and intelligent. He inherited his father's charm, and love of the Russian Army, whom he saw on his visits to the front during the World War I. He and his whole family were shot at Ekaterinburg in July of 1918 by the Ural Soviets. In...[Read More]
Petropavlovskaya Krepost, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Romanov, Anastasia Nikolaevna b. June 18, 1901 d. July 17, 1918
Youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Tsarina Alexandra. The royal family has since been sainted by The Russian Synod Abroad as well as The Moscow Patriarchate.
Petropavlovskaya Krepost, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Romanov, Maria Nikolaievna b. June 27, 1899 d. July 17, 1918
Russian Royalty. The third child of Czar Nicholas II and his wife, Czaritsa Aleksandra. When World War I broke out in 1914, the good-natured Maria visited wounded Russian soldiers in infirmaries with her youngest sister and best friend, Anastasia. In 1917, with the Russian Revolution, Maria's father abdicated the throne and the entire family was taken prisoner. In July 1918, Maria, her parents, her 3 sisters, and 1 brother were assasinated by the Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg, Siberia. In 2008 it...[Read More]
Petropavlovskaya Krepost, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Romanov, Nicholas Alexandrovich b. May 6, 1868 d. July 17, 1918
Russian Czar. Born the eldest son of Alexander III and Marie Feodorovna. At 26, upon the death of his father, he ascended the Russain throne becoming the last Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias. Less than a month later he married the daughter of Grand Duke Ludwig of Hesse, Alice Victoria Eleanor Louisa Beatrice who adopted the Russian name Alexandra Feodorovna. The marriage produced five children. He embroiled Russia in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War, suffering a decisive defeat at a cost of...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Cause of death: Shot by Bolshevik firing squad
Petropavlovskaya Krepost, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Romanov, Nicholas I Pavlovich b. May 25, 1796 d. February 18, 1855
Russian Monarch. Imperial House of Romanov. Emperor & Autocrat of all the Russias. Czar Nicholas I was born in Gatchina near St Petersburg, Russia. His Majesty's father was Czar Paul I. Nicholas I married Princess Charlotta the daughter of King Frederick Wilhelm III of Prussia. Grand Duke Nicholas became Emperor in 1825 upon the death of his brother Czar Alexander I and the refusal of his older brother Grand Duke Konstantin to assume the Crown. Czar Nicholas I first act in 1825 was to suppress...[Read More] (Bio by: john hinkle)
Petropavlovskaya Krepost, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Romanov, Vladimir Cyrilovitch b. August 30, 1917 d. April 21, 1992
Russian royalty. He was born in Borga in Finland. His parents were Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich and Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna. His birth occurred after the collapse of the Russian Empire. In 1924 his father declared himself de jure Tsar of all the Russias having satisfied himself that Tsar Nicholas II and his son Tsarevich Alexis had been murdered in Ekaterinburg in 1918 and Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich had been murdered in Perm also in the same year. In 1938 Grand Duke Cyril died...[Read More] (Bio by: David)
Petropavlovskaya Krepost, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Romanova, Alexandra Feodorovna b. July 13, 1798 d. November 1, 1860
Russian Tsarina. Born Frederica Louise Charlotte Wilhelmina, she was the daughter of Frederick Wilhelm III, King of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. She married her second cousin Grand Duke Nikolai Pavlovitch of Russia in 1817, and took the name Alexandra Feodorovna. They had seven children. Nikolai ascended the throne in 1825 as Tsar Nicholas I. The tsarina interfered little in politics, preferring the role of devoted wife and mother. Empress Alexandra was widowed in 1855, and died...[Read More] (Bio by: VampireRed)
Petropavlovskaya Krepost, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Romanova, Anna Ivanovna b. February 7, 1693 d. October 28, 1740
Empress of Russia. According to the old Julian calendar still in use in Russia at the time, her date of birth was January 28, 1693; by the modern Gregorian calendar it was February 7. Anna was the fourth-born daughter of the feeble-minded Tsar Ivan V, Peter the Great's older halfbrother, and his wife Praskoviya Fyodorovna Saltykova. They had five children in total, all daughters. Growing up she lived in Ismailovo, a village near Moscow, with her mother and four sisters. In November 1710...[Read More] (Bio by: Carrie-Anne)
Petropavlovskaya Krepost, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Romanova, Maria Alexandrovna b. August 8, 1824 d. June 3, 1880
Russian Tsarina. Born Maximilienne Wilhelmine Marie, Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt, she was the youngest daughter of Wilhelmine of Baden, wife of Ludwig II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine. She and three of her siblings were probably the children of Baron Auguste Saenarclens de Grancy, but Ludwig II acknowledged her and her brother Alexander (two others having died young) as his own to avoid scandal. In 1838, Tsarevitch Alexander Nikolaievitch fell in love with the lonely, unhappy 14-year-old...[Read More] (Bio by: VampireRed)
Petropavlovskaya Krepost, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Romanova, Olga Nikolaevna b. November 15, 1895 d. July 17, 1918
Russian Royalty. Daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsaritsa Alexandra. She was a "difficult" girl, arguing with her mother and often locking herself up in her room during her last years of her life, crying, not knowing what to do. She was a budding poet, and enjoyed reading; her favorite book was, ironically, "Les Miserables". She is buried with two of her sisters (Tatiana or Maria and Anastasia) in the Fortress of Sts. Peter and Paul, St. Petersburg, Russia. The royal family has since been...[Read More]
Petropavlovskaya Krepost, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

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