House
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
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
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Nicholas II of Russia 1868 CE – 1918 CE 4 children in the house
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Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia 1869 CE – 1870 CE -
Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia 1871 CE – 1899 CE -
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia 1875 CE – 1960 CE -
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia 1878 CE – 1918 CE -
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia 1882 CE – 1960 CE
Every member
People whose own records place them in this house.
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Peter III of Russia10 February 1728 CE (Old Style) – 6 July 1762 CE (Old Style) · The seventh Emperor of Russia (1762)
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Paul I of Russia20 September 1754 CE (Old Style) – 11 March 1801 CE (Old Style) · Child of Peter III of Russia -
Alexander I of Russia12 December 1777 CE (Old Style) – 19 November 1825 CE (Old Style) · Child of Paul I of Russia -
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia8 August 1831 CE – 25 April 1891 CE · Russian grand duke (1831-1891); third son and sixth child of Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia -
Alexander III of Russia26 February 1845 CE (Old Style) – 20 October 1894 CE (Old Style) · Emperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894 -
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia6 November 1856 CE (Old Style) – 5 January 1929 CE · Child of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia -
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia29 April 1857 CE (Old Style) – 4 February 1905 CE (Old Style) · Russian grand duke (1857–1905); seventh child and fifth son of Alexander II of Russia and Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) -
Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia10 January 1864 CE (Old Style) – 17 January 1931 CE · Child of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia -
Nicholas II of Russia18 May 1868 CE – 17 July 1918 CE · Child of Alexander III of Russia -
Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia26 May 1869 CE – 20 April 1870 CE (Old Style) · Child of Alexander III of Russia -
Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia27 April 1871 CE (Old Style) – 28 June 1899 CE (Old Style) · Child of Alexander III of Russia -
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia25 March 1875 CE (Old Style) – 20 April 1960 CE · Child of Alexander III of Russia -
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia22 November 1878 CE (Old Style) – 13 June 1918 CE · Child of Alexander III of Russia -
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia1 June 1882 CE (Old Style) – 24 November 1960 CE · Child of Alexander III of Russia -
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia18 April 1890 CE – 13 December 1958 CE · Russian grand duchess (1890–1958); granddaughter of Alexander II, daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia and Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark -
Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia18 September 1891 CE – 5 March 1942 CE · Russian grand duke (1891-1942); grandson of Alexander II, son of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia and Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark -
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia3 November 1895 CE (Old Style) – 17 July 1918 CE · Child of Nicholas II of Russia -
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia26 June 1899 CE – 17 July 1918 CE · Child of Nicholas II of Russia
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.
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25 December 1761 CE (Old Style) – 1 July 1762 CE (Old Style) Peter III of Russia The seventh Emperor of Russia (1762)
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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) -
12 March 1801 CE (Old Style) – 19 November 1825 CE (Old Style) Alexander I of Russia The tenth Emperor of Russia (1777–1825) -
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 -
20 October 1894 CE (Old Style) – 2 March 1917 CE (Old Style) Nicholas II of Russia 14th and last Emperor of Russia (1894–1917) -
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
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Dates unrecorded Nicholas II of Russia 14th and last Emperor of Russia (1894–1917) -
Dates unrecorded Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia Russian grand duke (1857–1905); seventh child and fifth son of Alexander II of Russia and Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse) -
Dates unrecorded Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia Russian grand duke (1831-1891); third son and sixth child of Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia -
Dates unrecorded Alexander III of Russia Emperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894 -
Dates unrecorded 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)
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.
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1 November 1894 CE – 15 March 1917 CE Nicholas II of Russia 14th and last Emperor of Russia (1894–1917)
No dates recorded 1
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Dates unrecorded Alexander III of Russia Emperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894
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
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Dates unrecorded Peter III of Russia The seventh Emperor of Russia (1762)
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Dates unrecorded Alexander III of Russia Emperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894
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
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Eastern Orthodoxy 8 members -
Russian Orthodox Church 7 members -
Lutheranism 1 member
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Eastern Orthodox Church 1 member
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.
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- 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.
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