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1882 - 1960 ยท Female ยท Peterhof, Russian Empire
Daughter of Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna
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Olga Alexandrovna
1882 - 1960
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna was the youngest child of Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna, and the youngest sister of Nicholas II. She trained as a nurse and worked in field hospitals during the First World War. Her first marriage, to Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, was unhappy and later annulled; she then married cavalry officer Nikolai Kulikovsky, with whom she had two sons. She escaped Russia with her moโฆ
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Gen 1 ยท 1796 - 1855
Nicholas I was Emperor of Russia from 1825 until his death in 1855, the third son of Paul I and younger brother of Alexander I, whom he succeeded after the Decembrist uprising. His nearly thirty-year reign was marked by military expansion, the codification of Russian law, and a conservative autocracy summarized in the doctrine of Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality. He is the great-grandfather of Nicholas II and the founder of the branch of the Romanov dynasty covered by this tree: his son Alexander II succeeded him, beginning the direct line that ended with the last tsar.
Gen 3 ยท 1857 - 1905
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich was the fifth son of Alexander II and Maria Alexandrovna, and an uncle of Nicholas II. He served as Governor-General of Moscow from 1891 to 1905, a tenure marked by strict conservatism and by the Khodynka Tragedy of 1896 during Nicholas II's coronation festivities, for which he was widely blamed. In 1884 he married Princess Elisabeth of Hesse, who took the name Elizabeth Feodorovna, though the couple had no children. He died in Moscow in 1905, during the wave of political violence and unrest that also produced the 1905 Revolution.
Gen 5 ยท 1895 - 1918
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna was the eldest child of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna. Born in 1895, she grew up alongside her sisters Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, and her younger brother Alexei, within the close-knit and largely secluded world of the imperial family. She trained as a Red Cross nurse during the First World War, working in a military hospital at Tsarskoye Selo alongside her mother and sister Tatiana. Thoughtful and musically gifted, she was reportedly reluctant about prospective political marriages proposed for her. After her father's abdication in 1917, she remained with her family in captivity until her death alongside them in 1918, at the age of 22.
Gen 5 ยท 1897 - 1918
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna was the second daughter of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna, born in 1897. Tall and often described as the most poised of the four sisters, she was especially close to her mother and effectively ran the household during her father's absences at military headquarters. Like her elder sister Olga, she trained and served as a Red Cross nurse during the First World War, performing surgical assisting duties at the family's private hospital in Tsarskoye Selo. She, along with her sisters Olga, Maria, and Anastasia and her brother Alexei, remained with their parents throughout the family's captivity following the 1917 abdication, until her death with them in 1918.
Gen 5 ยท 1899 - 1918
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna was the third daughter of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna, born in 1899. Known within the family for her warmth, physical strength, and fondness for children and soldiers, she was considered the most sociable of the four sisters. Together with her elder sisters Olga and Tatiana and younger sister Anastasia, she shared a close bond expressed in the family's habit of signing letters with the joint initials 'OTMA.' She spent her final months confined with her parents and siblings following Nicholas II's 1917 abdication, first at Tsarskoye Selo, then Tobolsk, and finally Yekaterinburg, where she died with her family in 1918 at the age of 19.
Gen 5 ยท 1901 - 1918
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna was the fourth and youngest daughter of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna, born in 1901. Lively and known for her sharp wit, she was the youngest of the four sisters, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and herself, who signed letters jointly as 'OTMA.' She died with her family in 1918, but persistent rumors that she had survived produced decades of impostor claims, most famously by Anna Anderson, making her the subject of enduring public fascination. DNA analysis of remains recovered near Yekaterinburg in 2007 and identified in 2009 confirmed that she died with the rest of her family, finally resolving the mystery that had surrounded her fate for most of the twentieth century.
Gen 3 ยท 1864 - 1918
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, born Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, was the elder sister of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and the wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, whom she married in 1884. Widowed in 1905, she withdrew from court life, sold her jewels, and founded the Convent of Saints Martha and Mary in Moscow, where she lived as a nun and devoted herself to charitable and medical work among the city's poor. Widely respected for her piety and humanitarian work even amid revolutionary upheaval, she was arrested with other members of the imperial family after the revolution and died in 1918, the same year as her sister and the Romanov branch she had married into.
Gen 5 ยท 1904 - 1918
Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich was the fifth child and only son of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna, born in 1904 and heir apparent to the Russian throne. He inherited haemophilia through his mother's line, a condition that caused recurring life-threatening episodes and shaped the private life of the imperial family, including its association with Grigori Rasputin, who was consulted for the boy's care. Despite his illness, he was reported to be lively and close to his four sisters. His father's abdication in March 1917 named him as successor before Nicholas instead passed the throne to his brother Michael. Alexei remained with his family throughout their captivity and died alongside them in 1918, aged 13.
Gen 4 ยท 1872 - 1918
Alexandra Feodorovna, born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, was Empress consort of Russia as the wife of Nicholas II, whom she married in 1894. A granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, she carried the gene for haemophilia, which affected her only son, Alexei, and shaped much of the private life of her later years. She and Nicholas II had five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei. Deeply religious and increasingly reclusive, she became associated with the controversial figure Grigori Rasputin, whom the family consulted over Alexei's illness. She was the elder sister of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna. She died alongside her husband and children in 1918.
The House of Plantagenet was the royal dynasty that ruled England for 331 years, from the accession of Henry II in 1154 to the death of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, making it the longest-reigning royal house in English history. Fourteen Plantagenet kings held the throne in unbroken succession, and in the fifteenth century the family's two junior branches, the houses of Lancaster and York, fought each other for the crown in the civil wars later known as the Wars of the Roses. ## Origins The dynasty came from Anjou in western France. Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou, is said to have worn a sprig of broom, *planta genista*, in his cap, and from that nickname the family eventually took its name, although it was not used as an actual surname until Richard, 3rd Duke of York, adopted it in the 1440s. Geoffrey's marriage in 1128 to Empress Matilda, daughter and designated heir of Henry I of England, gave their son a claim to the English throne that he made good in 1154. With Normandy and Anjou behind him, and Aquitaine gained through his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry II ruled lands reaching from the Scottish border to the Pyrenees, the assemblage historians call the Angevin Empire. ## Notable members The early, or Angevin, kings are among the most familiar names in English history: Henry II, whose itinerant justices and sworn juries laid the foundations of the common law; Richard the Lionheart, a leading commander of the Third Crusade; and King John, who sealed Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215. Henry III rebuilt Westminster Abbey, Edward I conquered Wales and summoned the Model Parliament, and Edward III opened the Hundred Years' War and founded the Order of the Garter. Later generations produced Edward the Black Prince, the victor of Poitiers, Henry V of Agincourt, and Richard III, whose lost grave was rediscovered in Leicester in 2012. ## Lancaster and York Edward III's many sons divided the dynasty. From his third surviving son, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, came Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI, and, through Gaunt's Beaufort children, Margaret Beaufort and her son Henry VII. From his fourth son, Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, combined with the senior Mortimer descent from his second son, Lionel of Antwerp, came Richard, 3rd Duke of York, and his sons Edward IV and Richard III. The rivalry of those branches produced thirty years of intermittent civil war, ending when Henry Tudor defeated Richard III at Bosworth and married Elizabeth of York, uniting the red and white roses. ## Significance No other family has shaped English institutions so deeply. Under the Plantagenets, Magna Carta became a settled principle, parliament grew from an occasional royal council into a body whose consent was needed for taxation, the common law took its enduring form, and English displaced French as the language of the court. Their castles, abbeys and cathedrals still define the medieval landscape of England and Wales. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Ruled | England, 1154 to 1485 | | Founder | Henry II, son of Geoffrey V of Anjou and Empress Matilda | | Place of origin | Anjou, France | | Kings | Fourteen, from Henry II to Richard III | | Branches | Angevin, Lancaster, York | | Emblems | The broom flower, the red rose of Lancaster, the white rose of York | | Last king | Richard III, killed at Bosworth in 1485 | | Legacy | Magna Carta, English common law, the growth of parliament |
The Rothschilds are a European banking dynasty founded in Frankfurt am Main by Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), whose five sons established banking houses in Frankfurt, Vienna, Naples, London and Paris and together built the most powerful private financial network of the nineteenth century. ## Origins Mayer Amschel Rothschild was born in 1744 in the Judengasse, the walled Jewish street of Frankfurt am Main, where the family took its name from the red shield that had marked an ancestor's house. He began as a dealer in rare coins and medals, became court factor to Crown Prince Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel in 1769, and turned that position into a banking business handling loans, bullion and government paper. With his wife Gutle Schnapper he had ten children who reached adulthood, five sons and five daughters. ## The five houses Mayer Amschel's decisive act was to place his sons in five cities so that the family could move money and news across borders as a single firm. Amschel Mayer stayed in Frankfurt, Salomon went to Vienna, Nathan to London, Carl to Naples and James to Paris. The brothers financed the allied campaigns against Napoleon, then the governments, railways and industries of nineteenth century Europe. The Naples house closed in 1860 with Italian unification, Frankfurt in 1901 for want of an heir, and Vienna in 1938 after the Anschluss. London and Paris survived, and their successors trade today as Rothschild and Co and the Edmond de Rothschild Group. ## Notable members Nathan Mayer Rothschild founded N M Rothschild and Sons and made London the centre of international lending. His son Lionel broke the bar on Jews sitting in Parliament, taking his Commons seat in 1858, and his grandson Nathan Mayer became the first Jewish member of the House of Lords in 1885. James Mayer de Rothschild dominated French finance under three regimes and bought Chateau Lafite, while his son Edmond funded the first Jewish agricultural settlements in Palestine. The family also produced naturalists and collectors rather than only bankers: Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild, the zoologist to whom the Balfour Declaration was addressed in 1917; his brother Charles, the flea specialist who founded British nature conservation; Charles's daughter Dame Miriam Rothschild, a Fellow of the Royal Society; and another daughter, Nica, the patron of Thelonious Monk. Jacob, 4th Baron Rothschild, built RIT Capital Partners and chaired the trustees of the National Gallery. ## Significance The Rothschilds were the first banking family to operate as a genuinely international partnership, and for much of the nineteenth century they were the principal lenders to European states. Their name is attached to railways, mines, hospitals, museums, nature reserves, Bordeaux first growths and a long tradition of Jewish philanthropy. Repeated marriages between first cousins kept capital and control inside the family, which is why the branches of this tree cross back into one another so often. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Founder | Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812) | | Matriarch | Gutle Schnapper (1753-1849) | | Origin | The Judengasse, Frankfurt am Main | | Children of the founder | Ten, five sons and five daughters | | The five houses | Frankfurt, Vienna, Naples, London, Paris | | Motto | Concordia, Integritas, Industria | | Principal firms | N M Rothschild and Sons, de Rothschild Freres, S. M. von Rothschild | | Still active today | Rothschild and Co, Edmond de Rothschild Group | | Known for | Government finance, railways, wine estates, natural history, art collections, philanthropy |
The Rockefeller family is an American business and philanthropic dynasty founded on the Standard Oil fortune of John D. Rockefeller, whose descendants have shaped American banking, conservation, medicine, modern art and national politics across five generations. From a modest upstate New York farmhouse the family rose to control the largest industrial enterprise of the Gilded Age, then spent the twentieth century converting that fortune into foundations, museums, parks and public office. ## Origins The line begins with William Avery Rockefeller (1810-1906), a traveling salesman from Granger, New York, and his wife Eliza Davison (1813-1889), who married in 1837 and raised six children in Richford, Moravia and Owego before the family moved to Ohio. Their eldest son, John D. Rockefeller, began as a Cleveland bookkeeper, entered oil refining in 1863 and incorporated the Standard Oil Company in 1870 together with his younger brother William Rockefeller. By the 1880s Standard Oil refined the great majority of American petroleum, until the Supreme Court ordered its dissolution in 1911. ## Notable members John D. Rockefeller and Laura Spelman Rockefeller had four children who reached adulthood, among them the Chicago arts patron Edith Rockefeller McCormick and the family's only son, John D. Rockefeller Jr. With Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, a co-founder of the Museum of Modern Art, John Jr. had six children who defined the family's public face: Abby "Babs" Rockefeller Mauze, the philanthropist John D. Rockefeller III, Nelson Rockefeller, who served four terms as Governor of New York and then as Vice President of the United States, the conservationist and venture capitalist Laurance Rockefeller, Winthrop Rockefeller, Governor of Arkansas, and the banker David Rockefeller of Chase Manhattan. Their children, known within the family as the Cousins, include Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, the Asmat art collector Michael Rockefeller, Lieutenant Governor Winthrop Paul Rockefeller of Arkansas, the economist Neva Goodwin and the Synergos founder Peggy Dulany. ## Significance The family's lasting mark is institutional rather than dynastic. The Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Chicago, Rockefeller University, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Center, the Museum of Modern Art, Colonial Williamsburg, Lincoln Center, the Asia Society and several national parks all trace their founding or their endowment to a Rockefeller. Few American families have moved so completely from industrial fortune to organized philanthropy and elected office within three generations. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Surname | Rockefeller | | Origin | Richford, New York, United States | | Founder | John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) | | Family business | Standard Oil, later Chase Manhattan Bank | | Known for | Standard Oil, the Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Center, the Museum of Modern Art | | Public offices held | Vice President of the United States, Governor of New York, Governor of Arkansas, United States Senator | | Generations covered | Five, from William Avery Rockefeller to the fourth-generation Cousins |
Olga Alexandrovna's recorded parents are Alexander III, Maria Feodorovna.
Olga Alexandrovna has 3 recorded siblings: Nicholas II, Michael Alexandrovich, Xenia Alexandrovna.
Olga Alexandrovna is recorded as Grand Duchess of Russia, nurse and painter in the Romanov family tree.
Olga Alexandrovna's recorded native place is Peterhof, Russian Empire.
5 ancestors and 0 descendants of Olga Alexandrovna are recorded so far, within a tree of 17 people.
Olga Alexandrovna is recorded as Nicholas II's Sister.
Olga Alexandrovna is recorded in the Romanov family tree on My rOoOts, alongside 16 other people.
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