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  • Tsarevna Anna Petrovna

    Anna Petrovna was the fourth child and second daughter of Peter the Great and Catherine I. She was born in Moscow on 27 January 1708. Anna grew up in the houses of Peter’s younger sister Natalia and ...

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  • Tsarevich Alexis Petrovich

    Tsarevich Alexis Petrovich was the first child and first son of Peter the Great and Eudoxia Lopukhina. He was born in Moscow on 18 February 1690 and baptised on 23 February 1690. His godparents were ...

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  • Grand Prince Vladimir

    Vladimir was the son of Prince Svyatoslav the Brave of Kiev and a housekeeper called Malusha. In 970, he was elected the prince of Novgorod. Six years later, he learnt that one of his brothers, Yarop...

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  • Basil III

    Basil III was the first child and first son of Ivan III and Sophia Palaiologina. He was born on 25 March 1479. He continued the policies of his father, displaying firmness, consistency and patience i...

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  • Ivan III

    Ivan III was the first child and eldest son of Grand Prince Basil II the Blind and Princess Maria of Borovsk. He was born in Moscow on 22 January 1440. Tall and slim, he suffered from a slight stoop,...

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  • Ivan the Terrible

    Ivan IV was the first child and first son of Basil III and Elena Glinska. He was born on 25 August 1530 in the village of Kolomenskoe near Moscow. When he was three, his father died and was succeeded...

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  • Feodor I

    Feodor I was the second child and second son of Ivan the Terrible and Anastasia Zakharina-Yurieva. He was born in Moscow on 31 May 1557. A contemporary described Feodor as “short, squat and fattish, ...

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  • Nicholas II

    Nicholas II was the first child and eldest son of Alexander III and Maria Fyodorovna. He was born at Tsarskoe Selo on 6 May 1868. From the diary of Tsarevich Alexander: “6/18 May 1868... Finally, at ...

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  • Alexander III

    Alexander III was the third child and second son of Alexander II and Maria Alexandrovna. He was born at the Anichkov Palace in St Petersburg on 26 February 1845. Alexander was educated by Boris Perov...

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  • Alexander II

    Alexander II was the first child and eldest son of Nicholas I and Alexandra Fyodorovna. He was born in Moscow on 17 April 1818. Alexander II was very different in character to his strong-willed and s...

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