Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
THE ROMAAOFF DYNASTY
HAS HELD SWAY IN RUSSIA
SINCE THE SIXTEENTH CEN
TURY.
Many Rulers Eethroned-line o.
Succession Was Frequently Broker
and Reverted to Various Branches
Ivan Driven Out BY a Revolution


Succession Was Frequently Broker
and Reverted to Various Branches
Ivan Driven Out BY a Revolution
The Romanoff dynasty. against the
further existence of which the revolu-
ton started in ST. Petersburg is di
rected, first appeared in Russia in the
fourteenth century, when Andrew
Kobyia came from Prussia to Moscow
CHAD and entered the service of the
Grand Duke Simeon The Boyar Ro-
man Yurievitch, the fifth in direct
descent from Andrew, died in 1543,
leaving son and daughter, the lat
ter of whom became Czarina by her
marriage with Ivan the Terrible
(1547).
The son-Nikita--wa one OF the
regency during the minority Of
Feodor /. and his eldest son, under
the name of Philaret, was elevated to
the rank of archimandrite and metro
politan of Rostov during the reign of
the false Demetrius (1605-1606).
He refused to recognize the Polish
Prince Ladisias as Gear of Russia in
1912, and for this the Poles took him
with them on their retirement from
Moscow in face of the nationalist ris-
ing and held him captive for nine
years.
In February, 1913, the Russia no
bles and clergy chose as their ruler
Michael Feodorovitch Romanoff, son
of the imprisoned metropolitan and the
representative, through his grand
mother, of the royal house of Rurik.
He was succeeded by his eldest son,
Alexis (1645-76).
Alexis was married twice and left
by his first wife two sons, Feodor and
Ivan, and several daughters, and by
his second wife one son, Peter. His
eldest son, Feodor, died without issue,
aid was succeeded by his half broth
4, Peter the Great, with whom Ivan
was associated until 1859.
Peter was twice married. BY his
first wife he had son, Alexis, who
died in his fathers lifetime, leaving a
son, Peter. Peter the Great, who
founded the city in which the revolu-
ton is occurring, was succeeded by
his wife, Catherine l., by whom he
had two daughters, Ann and Eliz-
abeth. Catherine left the throne to
the son of Alexis, Peter H., the last of
the male line of Romanoff; and on his
death, without heirs, the succession
reverted to the female line, the
! daughter of Ivan, Peter the Greats
half brother, Anna Ivanovan, being
placed on the throne (1730-40). She
was succeeded by her infant grand
nephew, Ivan w. Q740-4D.
A revolution drove VANS family
from the throne, of which the cadet
| female line in the person of Elizabeth
| (1742-62), the daughter of Peter the
Great land Catherine, now obtained
| possession. On her death her nephew,
| Peter, the son of her elder sister,
Anna Patrovna, who had married the
Duke of Holstein-G ottorp belonging
| to a cadet line of the family of Olden-
| burg), mounted the throne as Peter
III. (1762). He was dethroned, and
was succeeded by his wife, the Prin-
cess Sophia Augusta, of Anhalt-
! Zerbst, who reigned from 1852 to 1896
as Catherine II.
She was succeeded by Paul l., her
| son by Peter III. Paul (1796-1S01)
persisted by assassination, leaving sew
eral sons, the eldest or whom was
| Alexander l. Alexander QS01-1S25)
left no heir and the crown at his death
passed to his third brother, Nicholas
l., his next brother, Constantine, hav-
ing relinquished his right to the sue
| cession.
Nicholas (1S251S55) was succeeded
| by his son, Alexander H., who ascend
| ed the throne in 1855 and was as
| sassinated in 1881. His son, Alexan-
der I'LL, succeeded him and in 1894
the present Emperor, Nicholas H.,
came to the throne.
The present uprising in Russia is
ominous and the prediction is freely
made that it fore shadows the doom
of tie present dynasty.