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Who were the Romanovs?
The Romanovs were a family of Russian rulers that originated with a German nobleman, Andrew Kobyla, who settled in Russia in the fourteenth century. The Romanovs reigned from 1613 until 1917, when Czar (Emperor) Nicholas II (1868–1918) was overthrown in the Russian Revolution (1905–17). The dynasty was established by Michael Romanov (1596–1645), a grandnephew to the first Russian czar, Ivan the Terrible (1530–1584). There were eighteen Romanov rulers including the famous czars Peter the Great (1672–1725), who ruled from 1682 until 1725, and Catherine the Great (1729–1796), who ruled from 1762 until 1796.
As the last czar of Russia, Nicholas II ruled from 1894 until 1917. He suffered not only because of his own weaknesses as a leader, but also as a result of the public hostility that had accumulated over centuries of ruthless Romanov leadership. Nicholas's difficulties reached a crisis when...
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