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Romanov

or Ro·ma·noff

[ roh-muh-nawf, -nof, roh-mah-nuhf; Russian ruh-mah-nuhf ]

noun

  1. a member of the imperial dynasty of Russia that ruled from 1613 to 1917.
  2. Mi·kha·il Feo·do·ro·vich [myi-, kh, uh-, yeel, , fyaw, -d, uh, -, r, uh, -vyich], 1596–1645, emperor of Russia 1613–45: first ruler of the house of Romanov.


Romanov

/ raˈmanəf; ˈrəʊmənɒf /

noun

  1. any member of the Russian imperial dynasty that ruled from the crowning (1613) of Mikhail Fyodorovich to the abdication (1917) of Nicholas II during the February Revolution
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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It was a decision that would hasten the end of the Romanov Empire itself.

From Time

Nicholas II, the last Romanov, built the graceful Livadia Palace on top of a hill there.

The Romanov tsars imposed rigid serfdom just as that woeful institution was fading almost everywhere else.

“Russia has at present less freedom than it had in the earliest days of Romanov rule,” he declared in 1923.

One of the last of the Romanov dynasty comes to dinner in Israel.

And then The Romanov Prophecy came in 2004, and The Third Secret in 2005.

Anastasia Romanova, daughter of Roman, hence the name by which the family was afterwards distinguished—Romanov.

Nicholas Romanov is to blame for the plight of his country and for his own misfortunes.

Not only was the Romanov dynasty ended, but equally so was monarchical Absolutism itself.

The Romanov family in especial suffered severely from these delations.

Michael Fedorovich Romanov has just been elected Czar, and upon him the hopes of the people are centred.

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