Romanovs

Cultural  

1. The family that ruled Russia from the seventeenth century until the Russian Revolution. Empress Catherine the Great and Czar Peter the Great were Romanovs.

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Example Sentences

But historians debate how much responsibility Rasputin bears for the fall of the Romanovs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

But he took issue with what he said were unsupported storylines, such as the queen scolding then-Russian president Boris Yeltsin about the Romanovs.

From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2022

“This wedding is a restoration of tradition,” he said, adding the nuptials and the re-emergence of the Romanovs, should not be viewed through the prism of politics.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2021

The curator has even chosen to pipe in light music, as if ghosts from the last days of the Romanovs were still among us.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2021

The last of the Romanovs married Catherine the Greater.

From The Paliser case by Saltus, Edgar