Romanov

or Ro·ma·noff

[ roh-muh-nawf, -nof, roh-mah-nuhf; Russian ruh-mah-nuhf ]

/ ˈroʊ məˌnɔf, -ˌnɒf, roʊˈmɑ nəf; Russian rʌˈmɑ nəf /

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noun

a member of the imperial dynasty of Russia that ruled from 1613 to 1917.

Mi·kha·il Feo·do·ro·vich

[myi-khuh-yeel-fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich], /myɪ xʌˈyil ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/, 1596–1645, emperor of Russia 1613–45: first ruler of the house of Romanov.

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It was a decision that would hasten the end of the Romanov Empire itself.
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Nicholas II, the last Romanov, built the graceful Livadia Palace on top of a hill there.
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The Romanov tsars imposed rigid serfdom just as that woeful institution was fading almost everywhere else.
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“Russia has at present less freedom than it had in the earliest days of Romanov rule,” he declared in 1923.
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One of the last of the Romanov dynasty comes to dinner in Israel.
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And then The Romanov Prophecy came in 2004, and The Third Secret in 2005.
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Anastasia Romanova, daughter of Roman, hence the name by which the family was afterwards distinguished—Romanov.
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Nicholas Romanov is to blame for the plight of his country and for his own misfortunes.
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Not only was the Romanov dynasty ended, but equally so was monarchical Absolutism itself.
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The Romanov family in especial suffered severely from these delations.
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Michael Fedorovich Romanov has just been elected Czar, and upon him the hopes of the people are centred.
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British Dictionary definitions for Romanov

Romanov

/ (ˈrəʊmənɒf, Russian raˈmanəf) /

noun

any member of the Russian imperial dynasty that ruled from the crowning (1613) of Mikhail Fyodorovich to the abdication (1917) of Nicholas II during the February Revolution

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