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The principles laid down by Paul I in the Act of Succession 1797 turned out to be not completely flawlessly formulated, and, as a result, the interpretation of these is not always obvious, and Russia now has no indisputable contender for the throne. The rights of Kirill Vladimirovich and his heirs to the imperial throne of Russia have been repeatedly questioned following his marriage with Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Recognised by a congress of legitimists delegates in Paris in 1926 Following the confused successions of the descendants of Peter the Great, Catherine's son Paul I established clear succession laws which governed the rules of primogeniture over the Imperial throne until the fall of the Empire in 1917.Ĭlaimed the title Emperor of All the Russias while in exile Peter was ill-liked, and he was assassinated within six months of assuming the throne, in a coup orchestrated by his wife, who became Empress in her own right and ruled as Catherine the Great (both Peter and Catherine were descended from the House of Rurik). He and his German wife Sophia changed their name to Romanov upon inheriting the throne. Peter (who would rule as Peter III) spoke little Russian, having been a German prince of the House of Holstein-Gottorp before arriving in Russia to assume the Imperial title. Elizabeth declared her nephew, Peter, to be her heir.

Elizabeth would be the last of the direct Romanovs to rule Russia. The throne passed to Anna, a niece of Peter the Great, and after the brief rule of her niece's infant son Ivan VI, the throne was seized by Elizabeth, a daughter of Peter the Great. However, direct male descendants of Michael Romanov came to an end in 1730 with the death of Peter II of Russia, grandson of Peter the Great. Officially, Russia would be ruled by the Romanov dynasty until the Russian Revolution of 1917. The Empire of Russia was declared by Peter the Great in 1721. The Time of Troubles is considered to have ended with the election of Michael Romanov to the throne in February 1613. As a child, Władysław was even chosen as Tsar by the council of aristocracy, though he was prevented by his father from formally taking the throne. During this period, foreign powers deeply involved themselves in Russian politics, under the leadership of the Vasa monarchs of Sweden and Poland-Lithuania, including Sigismund III Vasa and his son Władysław. A distant Rurikid cousin, Vasily Shuysky, also took power for a time.

#RUSSIAN RULER THE MONEYBAG SERIES#

A series of impostors, known as the False Dmitrys, each claimed to be Feodor I's long deceased younger brother however, only the first impostor ever took the capital and sat on the throne. Son of Boris Godunov and Maria Grigorievna Skuratova-Belskayaĭevastated by famine, rule under Boris descended into anarchy. According to Article 59 of the 1906 Russian Constitution, the Russian emperor held several dozen titles, each one representing a region which the monarch governed. Some of the earliest titles include kniaz and velikiy kniaz, which mean 'prince' and 'grand prince' respectively but are often rendered as 'duke' and 'grand duke' in Western literature then the title of tsar, meaning 'caesar', which was disputed to be the equal of either a king or emperor finally culminating in the title of emperor. The vast territory known today as Russia covers an area that has been ruled by various polities, including Kievan Rus', the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, and the sovereigns of these many nations and throughout their histories have used likewise as wide a range of titles in their positions as chief magistrates of a country. The list begins with the semi-legendary prince Rurik of Novgorod, sometime in the mid 9th century ( c. 862) and ends with emperor Nicholas II who abdicated in 1917, and was executed with his family in 1918. It includes the princes of medieval Rus′ state (both centralised, known as Kievan Rus′ and feudal, when the political center moved northeast to Vladimir and finally to Moscow), tsars, and emperors of Russia. This is a list of all reigning monarchs in the history of Russia.

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