Rh Negative Royals: The Romanovs

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Grand Duchesses Tatiana, Anastasia, Olga, and Maria Nikolaevna Romanova of Russia picking mushrooms off the coast of Finland, circa 1912-1914. The daughters of Nicholas II, they would be executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries in 1918.

The House of Romanov was the reigning imperial house of Russia from 1613 to 1917. They achieved prominence after the Tsarina, Anastasia Romanova, was married to the First Tsar of Russia, Ivan the Terrible.

The English word terrible is usually used to translate the Russian word grozny in Ivan’s nickname, but that is a somewhat-archaic translation. The Russian word grozny reflects the older English usage of terrible as in “inspiring fear or terror; dangerous; powerful; formidable”. It does not convey the more modern connotations of English terrible such as “defective” or “evil”.

Maria Feodorovna photographed with her 2-year-old son, the future Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, in 1870.

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The Russian Imperial Romanov family were shot and bayoneted to death by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918.

LIVING DESCENDANTS OF THE HOUSE OF ROMANOV

Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna.
Prince Andrew Romanov.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff.
Prince Michael of Kent.
Prince Rostislav Romanov.
King Constantine II of Greece.
Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster.