The Imperial Family

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

## **The Imperial Family** / **House of Romanov** / **Рома́новы**

### Country

Russia (former)
Andalor (current)
Nero Austria (current)
Jefrouvania (current)Winia (current)

### Founded

February 21, 1613 (Russia)
December 29, 1067 (Andalor)
February 29, 1634 (Japan)

### Founder

Michael I (Russia)
Elizabeth I (Japan)
Katrina III (Andalor)
Rue II (Nero Austria)
Naomi I (Jefrouvania)

### Final Ruler

Nicholas II (Russia)
None (Japan, Andalor, Nero Austria, Jefrouvania, and Winia)

### Titles

Tsar of Russia (1613–1721) (Russia)
Emperor of All Russia (1721–1917) (Russia)
High Empress (Andalor, Nero Austria, Jefrouvania and Winia)
Grand Duchess/Grand Duke (Japan and Winia)

### Cadet Branches

Alexandrovichi (Russia)
 Konstantinovichi (Russia)
Nikolaevichi (Russia)
Mikhailovichi (Russia)
Kageyama (Japan)
Tsukishima (Japan)
Ennoshita (Japan)
Miya (Japan)
Eita (Japan)
April (Nero Austria)

The **Imperial Family**, better known as the **House of Romanov** (also transcribed **Romanoff**; Russian: Рома́новы, tr. *Románovy*, IPA: [rɐˈmanəvɨ]) was the reigning imperial house of Russia from 1613 to 1917. After the events of the Russian Revolution, that ended the rule of the 304-old-year dynasty only in the Russian Empire but it`s rule continued in the Andalorian Empire as well as the Jefrouvanian Empire. They first attracted international media attention with the births of Fuyu Tsuyuri and North Sallow; as they were the first babies born to the Imperial Family on the birthdays of two important saints and Imperial High Empresses; Anastasia of Andalor and Miriam of Jefrouvania. The direct male line of the Romanovs living in Russia ended in 1762, the only illegimente child and the eldest daughter (High Empress Katrina of Andalor) of Empress Elizabeth married into the Andalorian Imperial Family, thus ensuring that the main line of the Romanov Dynasty would not die out. Additionally, many exiles of the deposed Russian Empire fled to the Andalorian Empire or other none hostile countries in Europe. Officially known as members of the House of Romanov, descendants after the late Empress Elizabeth are sometimes referred to as "Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov". The ex-Emperor of Russia, his wife, and several children were executed in 1918; Fuyu and North`s ancestors (for whom they trace their Russian ancestry from) were two of the ex-Emperor of Russia`s children who escaped the Russian Court and Russia itself before the outbreak of the Revolution which toppled their family`s dynasty. The eldest of the two would marry into the Andalorian Imperial Family while the younger of the two married into the Jefrouvanian Imperial Family. Of the 65 members of the House of Romanov who lived in Russia, there were only 47 survivors, while the rest of the members died at the hands of the Bolsheviks. The Romanova`s who lived in Japan had a more kinder fate; several of them were married off to senior members of the Japanese Imperial Family, facing extreme isolation and ridicule by the Japanese population.

## House of Romanov

The Imperial Family of Russia shares their origin with over two dozen other Russian noble families. Their common ancestor is Andrei Kobyla, a boyar in the service of Semyon I of Moscow; a Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of Vladimir in 1347. The oldest-known common ancestor of both the Imperial Family of Russia, the Imperial Family of Andalor, the Royal Family of Nero Austria, the Imperial Family of Jefrouvania and the Imperial Family of Winia share is Empress Alexandra of Constantinople (born circa. 330 AD), who was the first "true" individual holding/bearing the surname of "Romanov", with her eldest daughter (Grand Princess Consort Isabella Glinskaya) producing several female children and a single male heir. Among those children; only the eldest daughter, (Atalanta Palaiologina), would go onto to marry into an non-Imperial Family; specifically the royal family of Nero Austria, bringing the latter underneath Byzantine control for the first time since the Kingdom`s founding in 330 AD.

## Members

### **Ancestors**

* **Andrei Kobyla** (Ancestor; Russian Romanov House)
* **Alexandra of Constantinople (Ancestor; all)**
* **Isabella Glinskaya** (Ancestor; Nero Austria)
* **Feodor Koshka** (Ancestor; Russian Romanov House)
* **Roman Yurievich Zakharyin** (Ancestor; Russian Romanov House)
* **Anastasia Romanovna** (Ancestor; Russian Romanov House)

### **Descendants**

The main lineal descendants of Alexandra of Constantinople can be traced through Isabella Glinskaya (Alexandra`s eldest daughter) to Atalanta Palaiologina (the former`s daughter and the latter`s granddaughter), from which the royal bloodline of Nero Austria is descended from. The country of Nero Austria`s first Queen; Isabella I, was the eldest great-great-grandchild and the only great-great-granddaughter of Atalanta Palaiologina and Atalanta`s husband; Berwald II. Isabella`s eldest grandchild and only grandson; Edward III chose to leave the Nero Austrian Kingdom in search of a suitable wife in the European nations with which to make an heir for his country`s Kingdom. While on his way to Europe, Edward and his crew were shipwrecked in what would later become known as the "Most Holy and Serene Empire of Winia" or as it became known "The Winian Empire"; with Edward becoming the head of the Winian Romanov House, while his grandparents remained as the heads of the Nero Austrian Romanov House. The eldest of Isabella`s granddaughters, Princess Imperial Ginevra "Ginny" made the decision to marry into the growing Russian dynasty, though her parents and grandparents begged her to reconsider her decision; back then, Russia was still a highly unstable country where reigning leaders were massacred or murdered in disturbing ways, such as by poison, burning at the stake, among other systems of assassinating rulers and people openly revolted against their rulers. Such a display of savagery upset Queen Isabella, who wanted her granddaughters and grandson to marry inside the confines of the Nero Austrian Kingdom in order to preserve the "purity" of their blood.