Find A Grave - St. Peter and Paul Fortress

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)
St. Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
Romanova, Anastasia Nikolaevna b. June 18, 1901 d. July 17, 1918
Grand Duchess of Russia and youngest daughter of Emperor Nicholas II. She is known as the most spontaneous of the imperial family. The photos discovered in archives in the Kremlin after the fall of the Soviet Union and her diary, seem to prove the opinion of historians. However, his name is connected to the famous story of being survived to the massacre of 16 July 1918 in Yekaterinburg. In 1924, a presumed heir to the throne of Russia, whose real name was Anna Anderson, publicly declared to be...[Read More] (Bio by: Lucy Caldarelli)
St. Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, 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)
St. Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, 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)
St. Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
Romanova, 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]
St. Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, 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]
St. Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
Romanova, Tatiana Nikolaievna b. June 10, 1897 d. July 17, 1918
Russian Nobility. The second child of Russia's last czar, Nicholas II. During WWI, she served as a Red Cross nurse with her mother and older sister, Olga. She and the rest of her immediate family were shot by the Bolsheviks in July 1918. She was twenty-one years old when she died. She is entombed in the fortress of St. Peter in St. Paul with her parents and two of her sisters. Much controversy between American and Russian scientists still surrounds which of her sisters are actually entombed...[Read More]
St. Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
Von Württemberg, Maria Feodorovna b. October 25, 1759 d. November 4, 1828
Czarina of Russia. She was born Princess Sophia Dorothea of Württemberg, Germany (present day Poland), but became Maria Feodorovana when at her marriage she converted to the Russian Orthodox faith. Her parents were Duke Friedrich II Eugene von Württemberg and Duchess Friederike von Brandenburg-Schwedt. She was the second wife of the Russian Czar Paul I. Although her marriage was a political arrangement by Catherine II the Great, she was a devoted wife who had ben prepared to be the wife of a...[Read More] (Bio by: Linda Davis)
St. Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
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