Petrova Family

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## Family heritage

### Species

* Immortal
* The Anchor (Formerly)
* Progenitor of Petrova Doppelgängers
* Doppelgänger
* Witch
* Passenger
* Human
* Vampire
* Augustine Vampire (Formerly)
* Hybrid (Formerly)
* Tribrid
* Ghost (Formerly)

### Notable family members

* Amara † (Progenitor of Petrova Doppelgängers, Human, Formerly Immortal and Anchor)
* Amara's Family and Relatives † (Human)
* Tatia † (Human, Doppelgänger)
* Tatia's Unnamed Child † (Human)
* Mr. Petrov † (Witch)
* Mrs. Petrova † (Human)
* Katerina Petrova (Doppelgänger, Vampire)
* Katherine's Sister † (Witch)
* Nadia Petrova † (Vampire)
* Nadia's Unnamed Child † (Human)
* Rebecca Flemming † (Human)
* Isobel Flemming † (Vampire)
* Elena Gilbert (Doppelgänger, Vampire)
* Adrianna Gilbert (Doppelgänger, Tribrid)
* Hope Mikaelson (Tribrid)
* Alexia Salvatore (Tribrid)

## Relationships

### Related families

* Gilbert Family
* Flemming Family
* Saltzman Family
* Sommers Family
* Salvatore Family
* Mikaelson Family

## Affiliation

### Property

* Petrova House, Bulgaria

The **Petrova Family** *(**Bulgarian:**Петров or Петрова*, ***Ancient Greek:** Πέτροβα, **Modern Greek:** Petros, **Latin:** Petrus, **English:** Pierce; translates as "small rock", "rock", or "stone")* is one of the main families in the *An Epic Kind of Love* series and arguably the second most important family after The Original Family. The family is one of the oldest families introduced, originating from Greece, then going to Bulgaria before ultimately ending up in Mystic Falls. The Petrova Family has been linked to both the Salvatore and the Bennett families since 1st Century BCE, also known as the Biblical Times.

Like the Salvatore Family, the Petrova family is also known for having a bloodline of Doppelgängers, known as the Petrova Doppelgängers, starting from their earliest known ancestor, Amara, the world's first Immortal woman.

When Amara became truly immortal, nature had to find a balance, and thus, created mortal versions of herself, known as "doppelgängers, shadow selves, or mortal shadow selves", would appear century after century throughout time. Tatia is the first doppelgänger of the Petrova bloodline while Katherine is the second and Elena is the third and final doppelgänger. Adrianna is considered a secondary doppelgänger due to her being Elena's younger twin sister; she has alternatively been referred to as the third or fourth.

As of Book 4 of *Legacies*, Alexia Salvatore is the last living member of the Petrova family. The rest of the family, Katherine, Elena, Adrianna, and Hope, are undead.

## Family Members

* **Amara:** Amara *(**Ancient Greek:** Αμάρα, **Latin:** Amarantha)* was born some time during 1st Century B.C.E. (100 B.C.), which was the Biblical Times. Her origins are from Ancient Greece and she is of Greek descent. She is the oldest known ancestor of the Petrova family bloodline. She was originally a human girl who was presumably born into a very poor family. Personality wise, Amara comes off as gentle, docile, and innocent, similar to that of Katherine before she turned. Although Amara was seen to be a nice girl, it is apparent that she did have a rather manipulative side to her. Amara knew that Silas was manipulating Qetsiyah and had used her to create the spell for immortality by pretending to be in love with her. Her age is unknown but it could be assumed that she was anywhere between fourteen to eighteen years old. As a human, she was the personal handmaiden to Qetsiyah, a very powerful witch who also came from a noble and wealthy background just like Silas. Amara fell deeply and passionately in love with Silas, who is the world's first immortal man or being and also, the oldest known ancestor and relative of the Salvatore family. Amara's love for Silas was so strong and powerful that she desired to be with him forever, even though her love for him was strongly forbidden. Silas manipulated Qetsiyah into creating the spell of immortality with the intention of sharing the gift of eternal life with Amara, instead of Qetsiyah. As a result of Silas and Amara's betrayal, Qetsiyah faked Amara's death and forced her to become the physical Anchor the The Other Side, tricking Silas into thinking that she had murdered Amara. After her awakening two thousand years later, the pain of her existence was too much for her to bear and she desired death above all else. Amara's desire and need to die was so strong that it rivaled her love for Silas, which was very powerful and strong in itself. After reuniting with Silas, Amara confessed her undying love to him before drinking the Cure from his blood and killing herself.
* **Tatia (1st Petrova Doppelgänger):** Tatia was born during the 10th century AD and lived in what would be the United States during the 10th century and was a contemporary of the Mikaelson Family. She is first mentioned in Book 3 of Part 1 of the series by Rebekah, though not by name, when she comments humorously that the original Petrova was much prettier than Elena. Tatia's doppelgänger is Katherine Pierce. Tatia was a distant descendant of Amara and was the first doppelgänger of Amara.
* **Tatia's Unnamed Husband:** He was born during the 10th century AD and was married to Tatia. He had a child with her and he died in the battlefield.
* **Tatia's Unnamed Child:** He/She was born around the turn of the 10th century. According to Elijah, Tatia had the child with another man, who was her husband, and had died in battle. Eventually, his/her descendants migrated to Europe. He/She is a distant descendant of Amara.
* **Mr. Petrova (Katerina's Father):** He was a Bulgarian man who lived during the 15th century. He watched his daughter, Katerina, give birth to a daughter in the year 1490. He took the baby away from Katerina moments after she was born, ashamed of his daughter for bearing a child out of wedlock. He disowned Katerina and banished her to England. He was murdered by Klaus. He was also a Traveler and therefore, was a witch with magic. It is through him that Katerina is a witch and possesses the gift of magic. He is a distant descendant of Amara if the bloodline from Tatia comes through him.
* **Mrs. Petrova (Katerina's Mother):** She was a Bulgarian woman who lived during the 15th century. She helped her daughter, Katerina, give birth to a daughter in the year 1490. Although Katerina's mother was more sympathetic towards her daughter, Katerina's father immediately took the child away, ashamed of his daughter for having a child out of wedlock. Her husband disowned Katerina and banished her to England. When Katerina returned to Bulgaria in the year 1492, she discovered that her mother, along with the rest of her family, had been murdered by Klaus. She is a distant descendant of Amara Tatia comes through her. If not then she is a distant descendant via marriage.
* **Katerina's Sister:** She was a Bulgarian girl who lived during the 15th century. She helped her sister, Katerina, give birth to her daughter in 1490. When Katerina returned to Bulgaria in 1492, she discovered that her sister, along with the rest of her family, had been murdered by Klaus. She is a distant descendant of Amara.
* **Katerina Petrova (Katherine Pierce, 2nd Petrova Doppelgänger):** Katerina Petrova, or Katherine Pierce *(**Bulgarian and Russian:** Катерина Петрова)* was born June 5, 1473 in Bulgaria. In 1490, Katerina gave birth to a daughter, continuing the Petrova bloodline, but she was disowned for having a baby out of wedlock and the child was given away. She was then banished to England, where in 1492 she met the Lord Niklaus and his elder brother, the Lord Elijah. She made their acquaintance and was friendly toward them, unaware that the brothers were vampires and Klaus intended to use her in a sacrifice. Eventually Katerina discovered the truth about Klaus and his plan and fled. In order to thwart the plan to murder her, Katerina orchestrated her own death and transformed into a vampire. Having escaped England, she returned to Bulgaria later that year, only to discover that Klaus had murdered her entire family as revenge for her escape and suicide. Many centuries later, near the end of the American Civil War in the year 1864, Katerina had assumed the name Katherine Pierce and moved to Mystic Falls, where she lived with the Salvatore Family. The brothers Damon and Stefan competed for her affections, sparking a lifelong rivalry between them. Katherine eventually faked her own death in the interest of her lifelong career of evading Klaus, and managed to lay low for 145 years before returning to Mystic Falls. Her return to the town was motivated by the desire to secure the Moonstone and the doppelgänger, both of which she intended to hand over to Klaus in exchange for her freedom. Katherine is currently married to Elijah. Katherine was a distant descendant of Amara and was the second doppelgänger of Amara.
* **Nadia Petrova:** Nadia *(**Bulgarian:** Надя Петрова, **Russian:** Надежда Петрова)* was born in the year 1490 in Bulgaria. Katerina gave birth to her when she was a teenager between the ages of 16 and 17. The daughter was born out of wedlock, much to Katerina's parent's disapproval, and she was given away to an unknown family. Her existence remained unknown throughout the supernatural world for many centuries; those concerned with the Petrova doppelgänger bloodline (namely Klaus) believed the line had ended when Katerina died and became a vampire. The truth did not emerge until the existence of the other Petrova doppelgängers were discovered. She was shown to still be alive as a vampire for over 500 years. After a brief scuffle with Tyler Lockwood, Nadia was bitten and infected with werewolf venom, causing her to die. Nadia was a distant descendant of Amara.
* **Nadia's Unnamed Child:** It is assumed that in order for the Petrova bloodline to have continued, Nadia most likely had a child or children before she became a vampire. He/She/They are distant descendants of Amara.
* **Rebecca Flemming:** Rebecca  is a distant descendant of Katerina Petrova and Amara and likely a recent ancestor of Isobel, perhaps her grandmother. Her tombstone indicates that she was born on August 18, 1919 and died on September 15th, 1971, a few years prior to the birth of Isobel. Nothing is known about her character or background and it can be assumed that she was human.
* **Isobel Flemming:** Isobel was a distant descendant of Katerina Petrova, and thus Amara, the world's first immortal woman. Born on October 17, 1975, she grew up in Mystic Falls and as a teenager had twins with John Gilbert. She gave her daughters up for adoption to John's brother Grayson Gilbert and his wife Miranda Sommers-Gilbert, who named the twins Elena and Adrianna, respectively. Years later, Isobel was married to Alaric Saltzman when she asked Damon Salvatore to turn her into a vampire. After she became a vampire, Isobel went looking for Katherine, who helped her get a Lapis Lazuli necklace so she could walk in the daylight unharmed. Isobel helped Katherine research about the tomb vampires and got the Gilbert Device for John Gilbert to destroy the tomb vampires so that Katherine could return to Mystic Falls. Isobel was later compelled by Klaus to betray Katherine and then kill herself. She removed her daylight necklace in front of Elena and burned to death in the sun, ironically in front of her own tombstone. Isobel was a distant descendant of Amara.
* **Elena Gilbert (3rd Petrova Doppelgänger):** Elena was born on June 22, 1992, in Mystic Falls, Virginia. She is the biological daughter of John Gilbert and Isobel Flemming, and is therefore a descendant of Katerina Petrova, to whom she bears a striking physical resemblance. Elena is the third and also the final doppelgänger of Amara, the originator of the Petrova doppelgänger bloodline. When Elena died and became a vampire in Book 4 of the first part of the series, it was believed that the Petrova bloodline ended, as both Adrianna and Elena were vampires and are unable to reproduce and have children. Elena is currently still a vampire and is the Headmistress at the Mikaelson-Salvatore Institute.
* **Adrianna Gilbert (Secondary 3rd Petrova Doppelgänger):** Adrianna was born on June 22, 1992, in Mystic Falls, Virginia, to John Gilbert and Isobel Flemming. She is the twin sister of Elena, and is therefore a descendant of Katherine. Due to being Elena's twin, Adrianna also shares a striking physical resemblance to Katherine. Adrianna was turned into a vampire in Book of Part 1 of the series, and later was revealed to be the first tribrid in existence. By the end of Book 1 of Part 2 of the series, she had given birth to her first daughter and had transformed into the Original Tribrid. Later, she gives birth to her second child, fathered by Damon. Adrianna is currently married to Damon and lives in Mystic Falls with him.
* **Hope Mikaelson:** Hope is the tribrid daughter of Adrianna and Klaus Mikaelson and the older half-sister of Alexia Salvatore. She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Due to her unique heritage, she is the world's first naturally born werewolf-witch-vampire hybrid. She inherited all three supernatural genes from both of her parents, though her tremendous amount of magical ability is derived from her father's side, due to her being a first-born of Dahlia and Esther's Family Bloodline. Hope is a descendant of the Labonair and Petrova Bloodlines. Hope became a fully activated tribrid in Book 4 of *Legacies* and currently attends the Mikaelson-Salvatore Institute with her sister and her friends.
* **Alexia Salvatore:** Alexia is the daughter of Adrianna and Damon and the half-sister of Hope. She is a tribrid like her sister and her mother, though she is not an activated one. She is the world's second naturally born tribrid of all three species and the third overall. Alexia is a descendant of the first Immortals, Silas and Amara, as well as a second-born of the Labonair/ Irene's bloodline, giving her a tremendous amount of magical ability. Due to this, she is extremely powerful, rivaled only by her mother and her sister. Alexia is by birthright a member of the Crescent Wolf Pack and is the last living member of both the Salvatore and Petrova families.

AmaraTatiaKaterina PetrovaNadia PetrovaIsobel FlemmingElena GilbertAdrianna GilbertHope MikaelsonAlexia Salvatore
## Relatives

* **John Gilbert:** John met and fell in love with Isobel Flemming during their teenage years and they dated each other for a while. When Isobel was just 16 in the year 1992, Isobel told John that she was pregnant and John brought her to his older brother, Grayson Gilbert, who was the local pediatrician or OB/GYN, so that she could give birth to her daughters, Elena and Adrianna. Isobel left the twins in the good hands of Grayson and his wife Miranda, who didn't know that John as actually the biological father of the twins. John later sacrificed himself to resurrect Elena after Klaus had killed her for his ritual to trigger his werewolf gene, having Bonnie Bennett channel his life force into Elena's body once she died. Though John and Isobel never married, he is considered a relative of the family.
* **Alaric Saltzman:** Alaric was the history teacher and a vampire hunter and was the former husband of Isobel Flemming. He was also the stepfather of Elena and Adrianna Gilbert. It was revealed when he was first introduced that he thought his wife, Isobel, was killed by a vampire, who he suspected to be Damon. Later, he found out that Isobel wanted to become a vampire, and begged Damon to turn her, thus making Isobel a vampire. Isobel later came back and compelled Alaric to move on from her, causing Alaric to fully commit and begin a new life with Jenna Sommers. In book 3, Alaric was turned into an Original by Esther. Alaric ended up dying after Elena drowned due to the sired connection between them. He is later resurrected, still as an Enhanced Original Vampire, at the end of Book 5 of Part 1 of the series. He met and fell in love with Jo, who saved his life when he crossed the magical border into Mystic Falls which stripped him of his supernatural powers and made him human again. Alaric ended up dying at his own wedding, trying to avenge the death of his new wife.

* **Damon Salvatore:** Damon is Adrianna's husband and the father of her second child, Alexia Salvatore. He is a 192 year old vampire and currently lives in Mystic Falls, Virginia with his wife.
* **Elijah Mikaelson:** Elijah Mikaelson is a 1000+ Original Vampire and currently the husband of Katherine Pierce, a Petrova Doppelgänger. Elijah and Katherine met in the 15th century and fell in love with each other. Elijah tried to convince his brother, Niklaus, to spare her life but Klaus refused. Elijah went ahead and had a witch create an elixir that would ensure her survival after the sacrifice anyway. Katherine ended up fleeing, leaving a heartbroken Elijah behind who spent the next 500 years hunting her down with his brother. Katherine and Elijah eventually reunited in 2010 in Mystic Falls. They later restarted their romance and have been together ever since.
* **Nadia's Unnamed Father:** He was the lover of Katherine and the father of Nadia. Nothing else is known about him.

## Family Tree

The lineage of the Petrova family is anchored by Katerina Petrova, Elena Gilbert, and Adrianna Gilbert, who are the doppelgängers of their ancestor Tatia: Tatia lived during the 10th century, Katerina was born in the 15th century, and Elena and Adrianna were born in the 20th century.

Note: Dashed vertical lines indicate a span of unknown time between generations of family members. Dashed horizontal lines indicate confirmed parentage out of wedlock.
## Surname

* **Petrov** or **Petroff** ***Feminine:** Petrova*) is one of the most common surnames in Russia and Bulgaria.
* The surname is derived from the given name Pyotr (**Пётр**, Russian) or Petar (**Петър**, Bulgarian), both of which are equivalent to the English name Peter. These names derive from the Greek "Πετρος" (Petros), meaning "stone".

## Trivia

* The Petrova family is descended from Greek origin, but eventually became a family of Bulgarian heritage.
* Amara is the oldest known ancestor of the Petrova family or bloodline, being born some time during 1st Century B.C.E. (100 B.C.) in Greece. Amara was originally human but became the world's first immortal woman after she consumed the immortality elixir.
	+ Amara is assumed to be of Greek origin or descent. It is presumed that her native tongue is Greek. On the other hand, Silas is presumably of Greek/Latin/Roman descent while Qetsiyah is presumably of Middle Eastern/Arabic/Mediterranean descent.
* The Petrova family is referred to using the feminine form of the surname (masculine: Petrov) because so far only female members of the family are significant to the book's plot. The bloodline from Tatia to Elena and Adrianna could be considered a Matriline.
* The Petrova family is one of the oldest families in the series.
* The Petrova family is primarily female dominated and all of the known members of the family happen to be women.
	+ Mr. Petrov (Katherine's father) is the only known male member of the Petrova family.
* It is worth noting that four members of the Petrova family have slept with Damon Salvatore: Katherine, Isobel, Adrianna, and Elena. Also, Elijah Mikaelson has kissed two members of the Petrova Family: Tatia and Katherine.
* It is presumed that a doppelgänger in the Petrova line is born every 500 years or so, although from Qetsiyah's point of view, doppelgängers of both the Salvatore and Petrova bloodlines were being born every century. These doppelgängers for all intents and purposes would be human, who would look exactly like Amara physically and who would have blood with magic properties.
* Almost an entire generation of the family was wiped out by Niklaus Mikaelson during 15th century A.D. in revenge for Katerina's sabotage of his plan to break the curse that had been placed on him by his own mother over half a century before. However, Nadia wasn't found by Klaus and presumably gave birth to a child before becoming a vampire.
* The Petrova Family is related to the Mikaelson Family and Salvatore Family through Hope Mikaelson and Alexia Salvatore, respectively.
	+ The Petrova Family is also related to the Salvatore Family through Adrianna's marriage to Damon Salvatore.