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Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov

Imperial house of Russia from 1762 to 1917

  • Dated from 1762 CE
  • Also called House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov, Romanov-Holstein-Gottorp

A family
on the record,
reign by reign.

Documented kin

Blason Rus Romanov-Holstein-Gottorp
Paradiddling  · CC BY-SA 4.0

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Members · 20

The house, member by member

One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.

What this means

People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.

6 children in the house

  1. Nicholas II of Russia 1868 CE – 1918 CE 4 children in the house
  2. Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia 1869 CE – 1870 CE
  3. Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia 1871 CE – 1899 CE
  4. Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia 1875 CE – 1960 CE
  5. Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia 1878 CE – 1918 CE
  6. Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia 1882 CE – 1960 CE
One family in Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov: members whose records name this parent, oldest first. A parent from another house is on the child’s own page. Open the family tree

Every member

People whose own records place them in this house.

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Succession

Offices held in the house

The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.

Emperor of all the Russias

  • 6 holders
  • 2 gaps
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 25 December 1761 CE (Old Style) – 1 July 1762 CE (Old Style) Peter III of Russia The seventh Emperor of Russia (1762)
  2. Gap about 34 years before the next in this house

    5 November 1796 CE (Old Style) – 12 March 1801 CE (Old Style) Paul I of Russia The ninth Emperor of Russia from 1796 to 1801 (1754-1801)
  3. 12 March 1801 CE (Old Style) – 19 November 1825 CE (Old Style) Alexander I of Russia The tenth Emperor of Russia (1777–1825)
  4. Gap about 56 years before the next in this house

    1 March 1881 CE (Old Style) – 20 October 1894 CE (Old Style) Alexander III of Russia Emperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894 Has references
  5. 20 October 1894 CE (Old Style) – 2 March 1917 CE (Old Style) Nicholas II of Russia 14th and last Emperor of Russia (1894–1917)
  6. 2 March 1917 CE (Old Style) – 3 March 1917 CE (Old Style) Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia Grand Duke of Russia (1878–1918); youngest son of Alexander III of Russia and Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)

Member of the State Council of the Russian Empire

  • 5 holders
  • 5 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

No dates recorded 5

Grand Duke of Finland

  • 2 holders
  • 1 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 1 November 1894 CE – 15 March 1917 CE Nicholas II of Russia 14th and last Emperor of Russia (1894–1917)

No dates recorded 1

Head of the House of Romanov

  • 2 holders
  • 2 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

No dates recorded 2

Chronology is not a full explanation

Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.

Religious context · a separate claim

Affiliation

Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.

What this means

Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.

Affiliations recorded on members

An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.

Connections

How Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Affiliation 2

What this means

Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.

Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Transmission 1

What this means

Teaching passed from one person to another. Not biological ancestry and not automatic institutional succession.

Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

3 statements on this record

  • 3 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Junta Granada Informa from Granada, España · CC BY-SA 2.0

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