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His son, Nicholas Alexandrovich, went to Romania with a mysterious young girl supposedly named Ceclava Czapska (Tchapzka), who had escaped from Russia and enjoyed the protection of General Alexander Dolgorouky in Ukraine.
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Czar Nicholas II’s immediate family was executed in 1918. But there are still living descendants with royal claims to the Romanov name.
On the night of July 16, 1918, a Bolshevik assassination squad executed Czar Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra, and their five children, putting an end to the Romanov family dynasty that had ruled Russia for more than three centuries.
Brutal Execution of the Romanovs
The murder of the Romanovs stamped out the monarchy in Russia in a brutal fashion. But even though there is no throne to claim, some descendants of Czar Nicholas II still claim royal ties today.
At the time of the executions, about a dozen Romanov relatives were known to have escaped the Bolsheviks, including Maria Feodorovna, the mother of Czar Nicholas II, her daughters Xenia and Olga, and their husbands. Of the 53 Romanovs who were alive in 1917, it’s estimated that only 35 remained alive by 1920.
For Russian royalists, the continued existence of Romanov descendants keeps hope alive that at some point someone in the royal family might reclaim the throne—if only they could work out which member of the family has the strongest claim. As it stands, two branches of the Romanov family disagree on who is the legitimate pretender, or claimant to a monarchy that has been abolished. Here are the people alive today with ties to the ill-fated imperial family.
Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna
Maria Vladimirovna, Grand Duchess of Russia, attending the unveiling of a monument to Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, 2016.
Maria Vladimirovna is the most widely acknowledged pretender to the throne of Russia. This great-great-granddaughter of Alexander II, who was Emperor of Russia until his assassination in 1881, now lives in Spain. Her father, Vladimir Kirillovich, was born in exile in Finland in 1917, and from 1938 claimed to be head of the Russian imperial family. When Grand Duke Vladimir died in 1992, his daughter succeeded him in this claim, and calls her son, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich, the heir apparent. However, Maria Vladimirovna has never belonged to the Romanov Family Association, founded in 1979 to unite descendants, because its members include non-dynastic Romanovs (those whose ancestors married outside the dynasty), whom she and her supporters believe do not have a legitimate claim to the throne.
Prince Andrew Romanov
Deliberate misinformation from the new Bolshevik regime, combined with the fact that no bodies were found for decades, fueled persistent rumors of survivors among the royal family. Here are the most intriguing imposters to the Romanov name.
Anna Anderson/Franziska Schanzkowska
Anna Anderson (1896 - 1984), a woman who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia, 1926.
Dozens of women claimed to be the youngest Romanov princess, Anastasia, but the most famous was Anna Anderson, who surfaced in 1920 in a German mental hospital after jumping off a Berlin bridge. Anderson stuck to her claim, even after evidence surfaced to suggest she was in fact a Polish woman named Franziska Schanzkowska. When she died in 1984 in Charlottesville, Virginia, her death certificate recorded the name, birthdate and birthplace of the Russian princess. Later analysis of her DNA matched her with a descendant of Schanzkowska, not the Russian royals.
Michael Goleniewski
Michael Goleniewski, 1965.
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Dolgoruky family, Russian princely family who claimed descent from Rurik, the semilegendary founder of the first Russian state. The Dolgorukys produced well-known statesmen, military leaders, and men of letters. Yury Alekseyevich Dolgoruky (d. 1682) was a high-ranking nobleman and military.
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Nicholas with his elder sister Alexandra, who died in childhood. Grand Duke Nicholas was born on 20 September [ O.S. 8 September] 1843, in the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo south of central Saint Petersburg , during the reign of his grandfather, Emperor Nicholas I .
Jan 6, 2013 · Tsar Nicholas had been the eldest of a family of six siblings, the children of Tsar Alexander III and his Danish wife Tsarina Maria Feodorovna.
Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich. Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich was the second child and first son of Alexander II and Maria Alexandrovna. He was born in Tsarskoe Selo on 8 September 1843 and known in the family as “Nixa.”.
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Oct 5, 2016 · Daughter of Prince Andrei Alexandrovich, Nicholas II's oldest nephew. She lives in Kent, England, and organizes the annual Russian Debutante Ball in London.
