How Russian Were The Romanovs?
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- With a single stroke on March 15th 1917 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia - ended the over 300 year long rule of the Romanov dynasty. Nicholas II - Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias - as his title was - was now only Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov. The crushing weight of an Empire that screamed for liberty and equal rights fell into Nicholas’ hands when he was only 26 and completely unprepared for his role. He was to blame for all the tragedies which occured under his rule - not because he was actually at fault for all the events - but because Nicholas was an autocrat. And when there is only one person in charge of a country, that person is the one to get all the blame. His role as Tsar was his death sentence - but not only his - tragically - also for his whole family.The life of Nicholas II - who once ruled one of the largest Empire - and his family ended in a basement in Yekaterinburg.
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Please I would love a video like this on the British royal family. They were essentially German… and now they are essentially the most British they’ve ever been!
Will put that on my list :)
The Tudors, overall, were very British. They did have some French ancestry from the widowed queen of Henry V who married Owen Tudor and, of course, Mary Tudor was the daughter of Catherine of Aragon. But even Catherine was descended from John of Gaunt. But many royals are descended from John of Gaunt, even today!
All members of the British royal family descend directly from Henry VII and Elizabeth of York so they all descend from all 3 brothers Lionel of Antwerp Duke of Clarence, John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster, Edmund of Langley Duke of York.
Henry was a descendant of John whereas Elizabeth was a descendant of all three. Which was why he married her she held a much stronger claim to the throne.
This was fascinating. It would be fun to see what they actually were as a comparison/companion piece. Great work.
This video was awesome! Thank you I wanted for a long time to see a video with all the Romanovs czars. Yes, I am definitely interested in more videos like this on other royal families
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed. I will plan future videos like this one :)!
@@BackToHistoryYT May I suggest the British Royal Family first?
@@nathanfleischman9856 sure :)!
This is a great video! I’d love to see a similar one on the British Roy’s, family. 😊
Peter was also a little Swedish, through his grandmother, the daughter of Charles XI
To be honest, Charles, the bloodline was pretty much mostly German unless you count to the most important Swedish individual in the entire family Catherine Sweden, the sister of Gustav Adolphus, the father of modern warfare however her mother was also a German princess so that was pretty much irrelevant
Superb as always, thank you,
Agnatically, the house of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov is a cadet branch of the House of Oldenburg. It is interesting to note that for a short period, from the late 19th century to 1918, the Oldenburgs sat on four thrones - Denmark, Norway, Russia, and Greece and now, the British monarch is
also an Oldenburg.
No he isn’t, agnatically he is, but officially he is a Windsor
@@amitystan yes of course
Great job with the video beautiful.
Yes, more videos like this on all the European royal families, this is one of the best videos you have done!
Thank you so much!
Just found your channel today, really like the content! I’d take a video like this on all the nationalities! 🙏🏾 also, maybe one showing just how many countries were partially German at the peak?
Will put that on my list! Thank you!
Very interested in more. Thank you. New Sub
Thanks for subscribing!
The Catherine’s were only Romanovs by marriage. Catherine I was from a Polish noble family + II the house of Ascanis. Ivan VI wasn’t actually a Romanov, but from the House of Brunswick-Bevern
No her father wasn't noble and its not sure if he was polish
Thoroughly enjoyed this video-I enjoy them all equally. Very insightful. Keep them coming!
Thank you for all that you do. ❤️
Your support is much appreciated!
Please do other Royal families
Yes Please do one on all of them!
Alexei the last Tsarevich by this calculation was less than 0.5% Russian his mother being Alexandra of Hesse
Fun Fact: It was Russia who saved The Union during the American Civil War as they sent their Navy to San Francisco and New York when England and France were just about to enter the war on the side of the Confederates since London created the Confederates. France was already in Mexico making a spear head movement to resupply the Confederates and to open up a Pacific Theatre and to create a port in California. England already amassed 11,000 troops and growing stationed at their Northern Confederacies border now called Canada ready to open a Northern Theatre to divert Union troops away from their Southern Confederacy then to attack The Unions naval blockade. The Union would have been completely destroyed and annexed by those two great powers leaving the Confederates to exist as a puppet state of London.
London was already courting (threatening/bribing) other countries to get involved like Spain while Russia was in talks with Prussia to ally with incase London was to intervene.
Seeing all of this Tsar Alexander II wrote a letter to Queen Victoria saying “If you enter in this war it will be a casus belli for all out war with the Russian Empire”. The stage was set for the 1st World War and Russia stopped it.
There is also a memorial in San Francisco for the
hundreds of Russian sailors who came off their Asiatic fleet ships that died while helping the city put out a fire that threatened to lay waste to it during the War.
Excellent video.I would like to see one about the British/German royal family.
You should mention that the goal (in the past until 1900's) was to marry foreign princesses. They did it on purpose. If the tsar married a Russian woman it would set the aristocracy fighting amongst themselves. Everyone would want their daughter to marry the tsar, so they always chose a foreign princess as a bride.
Previously, the tsars of Russia married Russian noblewomen. EG Tsarina Eudoxia
They all became an ethnicity that I would just described is royal. The monarchs were more related to each other then to the people over whom they ruled. And since there were so many German principalities but only a few Sovereign King ships, everybody was had German princesses and their bloodline
If Nicholas had lived I don’t think we would be in the place we are now
That is very true. The world would be a better place if the Romanov dynasty did not end.
It depends on what you mean by 'Russian Blood'
They all grew up in Russia, spoke Russian and were Russian Orthodox. Does that still make them not Russian?
So with Nicholas II, the Russian blood of the Romanovs ended both with his family’s death and in the biological sense, as the Tsarevich had a foreign mother that would have diluted it to below 08%.
Tsesarevich* Tsarevich is a generic term for the son of any Tsar
So interesting!
I'm a big fan of history ❤️
Thank you I enjoyed
it would be great to know how much English blood the Royal Family actually has
Will do so
Please, say "airs" not "ears". They all had ears and hairs, but some had no heirs (silent "h"). :-)
Maria Feodorovna, wife of Paul I + mother of Alexander I, was born Sophie of Wurttemberg, not of Prussia
My Great Great Grandpa Wilhelm Fredrick Herman Michaelis was Prussian
@@paulmichaelmichaelisduron354 not an ethnicity
So, in a nutshell the Romanovs oscillated between the few, small and weak Russian royals (or what we would call 'dukes') and the stronger and well known German royal families. And also, before Peter the Great, Russia was a small country the size of France. It was only during Peter's reign that a rapid expansion eastwards and southwards into the muslim kingdoms took place. The eastern colonization would have been easier as the vast territories there are sparsely populated, there were no cities there, just villages along rivers separated by tundra forests.
It was the German royal family who proped up the Russian Romanovs and without German help Russia would not have been a great nation.
The Romanovs were basically German from the time of Catherine the Great onwards. They kept on marrying Germans with each and every successive generation. Of course they spoke Russian and lived in Russia, but they were ethnically Germans.
My impression from the information I have is that Paul I , contrary to what biographers of Catherine II have written and taken for granted,, probably WAS the biological son of Peter III, even if Catherine had other children that had other biological fathers, Actually I think I read that Peter III recognized Paul as his biological son, but said about a later born daughter that he was not her biological father.There are some similarities between Paul and Peter. Also Elizaveta Petrovna probably HAD children, according to some sources, but who were "hidden" in the countryside. Possibly Catherine II also searched for these children intending to kill them. In that case I don´t know if she succeded. An intersting thing is the reconciliation between Russian and Swedish roaylty after the great northern war 1700-1721. Peter I:s daughter Anna married the son of Karl XII;s sister, Karl Fredrik of Holstein Gottorp, who thus was "part Swedish". Karl XII and Peter I had fought each other for 18 years. That means Peter III was "part Swedish", and I believe "his genes have returned to Sweden", because Paul I of Russia is actually grandfathers grandmothers grandmothers father of our Swedish king today - his majesty Carl XVI Gustaf. Carl Gustaf descends from Pauls daughter Maria Pavlovna , born in 1786. So we have "part Russian" royalty here!. 🙂
In 1914, when WWI broke out, there were only two Kingdoms in Europe ruled by monarchs of the same ethnicity as the majority of their subjects, Serbia & Montenegro.
Lot of childless rulers and assassinations/overtrows😮😢
It would be great to see this done for other monarchs of Europe. Maybe even give an estimate on what else made up their ethnicity too.
Will plan future videos like this one :)!
@@BackToHistoryYT I think a video on the Italian and perhaps Spanish monarchs would be interesting.
Germans and Slavic people basically rule Europe. Through in some Latin's people (Italians)
nope not the sllavic but the royaks of eurooe were mostly ruled by German Royal Houses
Very Enjoyable... and enlightening as well! Thank you. Yes I'd love to hear about, the what I take to the almost complete German, bloodline of the British Monarchy.
Thanks! Will do so.
Thanks for this video. I am also interested to know more about the female rulers of Russia
Will put that on my list!
How about a video comparing a lot of the different European royal families to find out what they are all mostly, likely German, but I think it would still be a very interesting video.
To Jack Cashion, King George III, who was the British king during the American Revolutionary War, married a woman who was mixed race, Caucasian and African.
Portraits that were made of her at the time were purposely done to soften her features, and make here appear white. To King George's credit, he came to love her deeply, and they were a happy couple.
Thank you so much and I want to know if his son was the king of Russia or his daughter was the queen my be we would not have this War with Ukraine 🇺🇦 and Putin would not have any power today??
2:30 "You-dox-ee-ah" should be "Yev-doo-kee-ah".
Mostly German
Yep, like the Mountbatten-Windsors... all cousins.
Whatever the unjust treatment did to him, young Ivan vi deserves to have his memory preserved. His family also. The Soviets killed Romanovs. But so did the Romanov’s. ❤
I never knew Theodor I died without any ears.
Look up Wilhelm Fredrick Herman Michaelis and George Alexander Powell and Grace Hunter Powell
Virtually NO Romanov or Russian blood at all. They were a Royal line from Germany, The Oldenburg line, and they changed their name to Romanov in the early 1700's.
The idea that anyone is a “pure” Russian is ridiculous. Until 1914 it wasn’t considered negative to marry a German princess. That’s why all the royal houses have Germans in them.
the one advantage of German disunity was the number of sovereign principalities, duchies, and so on. As sovereigns they and their children were considered "royal," and suitable matches for other royal houses. Hence so many of the kingdoms of Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries have monarchs descended from German princes and princesses.
If they actually were Romanoff since Catherine the Great cheated constantly on her husband!
Thank you for sharing The Romanovs of Russia ❤🇷🇺
U didn't mention anything about Catherine the 1st father,who clearly by the name is russian so that makes her 75% russian, lets say 13% german and 12% baltic
Her father had originated from Minsk so maybe russian but certanly Slavic
suffice to say, it was Catherine the great who dilluted the Russian blood of the Romanov dynasty
Yes. Please lay out the truth about the brit royal group please.
What do you mean how Russian? Russian is not a purely ethnic category, say César Cui is a Russian composer, an absolutely great one to boot, he was a Russian national and considered himself a pure Russian, in fact he is one of the founders of "the nationalist" school in music. And he was a general in the Russian army. He was a Russian chauvinist by any modern standard or measure while he didn't have a drop of Great Russian ancestry. Now, the current US secretary of state, Blinken, who changed his name from Blinkin, what means a little pancake man in Russian, is a Kievan Jew by descent, so is he American or not?
I thought ivan the terrible was first tzcar
And all the royal houses threw marriage and blood lines were all closely related
The last Russian to sit on the throne of Russia was Empress Elizabeth was 100% Russian and she was Peter the greats daughter then Elizabeth had no children so she appointed Anna’s son Peter the III as her apparent then sent for Sophie and she became Ekaterine the great of all the Russias and they were both German
Catherine I was indeed interesting.
Mostly of theme were Germans.
Another thing as well 100% of all the royal houses of Europe they were all ruled by Germans king Christian the 9th and Queen Victoria were the grandparents and father in law and mother in law of all Europe
Trite!
Where do they find these pathetic voice over artists? My goodness so sad
Would You Do A Video On The French Origin Of The Swedish Royal Family? During The Napoleonic Period The Last Swedish King,Who Was Elderly And Childless Adopted The French Marshall Jean Jules Baptiste Bernadotte,Who Became King As Charles XIV John. His Wife Was Desiree Clary,Who Was Briefly Engaged To Napoleon. Their Son Oscar I Married A Bavarian Princess Who Was Descended From The Vasa Dynasty,Bringing Swedish Blood Back Into The Royal Family.
I will put that on my list, thanks!