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Nicholas II was the first child and eldest son of Alexander III and Maria Fyodorovna. He was born at Tsarskoe Selo on 6 May 1868. From the diary of Tsarevich Alexander: “6/18 May 1868... Finally, at ...
Alexander III was the third child and second son of Alexander II and Maria Alexandrovna. He was born at the Anichkov Palace in St Petersburg on 26 February 1845. Alexander was educated by Boris Perov...
Alexander II was the first child and eldest son of Nicholas I and Alexandra Fyodorovna. He was born in Moscow on 17 April 1818. Alexander II was very different in character to his strong-willed and s...
Nicholas I was the ninth child and third son of Paul I and Maria Fyodorovna. He was born in Tsarskoe Selo on 25 June 1796 and baptised on 6 July 1796 with his brother Alexander and sister Alexandra a...
Alexander I was the first child and eldest son of Normal 0 false false false RU X-NONE X-NONE Paul I and Maria Fyodorovna. He was born in St Petersburg on 12 December 1777. Immediately after his birt...
From the very day he was born in the Summer Palace of Elizabeth Petrovna on 20 September 1754, the life of Paul I unfolded like a drama. When the young prince visited Vienna in 1781, a gala performan...
Peter III was born in Kiel on 10 February 1728. He was the son of Duke Carl Friedrich of Holstein-Gottorp and Anna Petrovna, daughter of Peter the Great. When the child was born, he was given the nam...
Ivan VI was born in St Petersburg on 12 August 1740. He was the son of Prince Anton Ulrich of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Anna Leopoldovna, niece of Empress Anna Ioannovna. The boy was named after his...
Peter II was born in St Petersburg on 12 October 1715. He was the son of Tsarevich Alexis Petrovich and Princess Charlotte Christine Sophie of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Peter’s mother died when he was ...
Peter the Great is probably the most famous member of the Romanov dynasty. He single-handedly changed the course of Russian history, turning the country into a powerful empire ranking alongside the o...