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11 unusual facts about House of Romanov


House of Romanov

As a former leader of the anti-Godunov party and cousin of the last legitimate Tsar, Filaret Romanov's recognition was sought by several impostors who attempted to claim the Rurik legacy and throne during the Time of Troubles.

The transfer of her remains in 2006 was accompanied by elaborate ceremonies, including at St. Isaac's officiated by the Patriarch Alexis II.

Jönssonligan och den svarta diamanten

Ragnar Vanheden and Harry "Dynamit-Harry" Kruth find themselves hooked up with a confused doctor M.A. Busé in a scheme to steal the Romanov family's black diamond.

Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama

This is perhaps an influence from New Orleans' traditional colors of purple, green, and gold, which came from the Russian House of Romanov in 1872.

Maurice Bavaud

Gerbohay claimed that he was a member of the Romanov Dynasty, and convinced Bavaud that when communism was destroyed, the Romanovs would once again rule Russia, in the person of Gerbohay.

Order of St. Michael the Archangel

It was created in commemoration of the 1000 years of Russian Orthodoxy, the 375th anniversary of the ascension to the throne of the House of Romanov, and the 50th anniversary of his own accession as head of the dynasty.

Princess Fadia of Egypt

On 17 February 1965, she married Pierre Alexievitch Orloff (born 13 December 1938), a Swiss geologist and descendant of the Russian Royal Family, at the Kensington Registry Office, in London.

Representation of the People Act 1918

Quite apart from the evident injustice of withholding the vote from the very men who had fought to preserve the British political system and Empire, the overthrow of the centuries-old Romanov monarchy and the Russian nobility in March of the previous year, and the subsequent revolution of workers and soldiers in November, raised the spectre of a similar socialist revolution in Britain.

Russian All-Military Union

Many (but not all) of its members had monarchist sympathies of varying flavors: constitutional vs. autocratic, Romanov vs. non-Romanov oriented.

The Last of the Tsars

The action takes place in Russia between 1912 and 1919, and follows the fortunes of the Romanov family and of Russia in the tumultuous years leading up to the Revolution of 1917, and beyond, to the assassination of the Romanov family by the Bolsheviks.

Wąchock Abbey

It was suppressed, and the church converted to a parish church, in 1819 following the Congress of Vienna, which had created the "Kingdom of Poland" five years earlier as a de facto puppet state of the Russian Empire under the Romanov Tsars.