Dmitry had been out of the room cleaning a gun. When he returned and pushed the door open, the door knocked him in the arm, causing him to slip, hit his head on the floor and accidentally stab himself twice in the forehead, five times in the neck and 16 times in the back in self-defense, leave visible signs of struggle such as broken glass and fallen furniture, and die in a few minutes after wrapping himself in a carpet. Only a few weeks earlier, he had announced that he was writing a book exposing shady business dealings within the State Department. The main beneficiaries of his death happened to be the only eyewitnesses.
A huge number of Rurik's descendants were among the highest Russian aristocracy, and not only on the maternal side. Rurik had too many descendants. For example, the princes Obolensky, the descendants of Rurik in the male line. Therefore, only the descendants of the Moscow princes were counted for the succession to the throne.
This is not a fact. There is a possibility that Filaret is son of Evdakia Shuyskaya, but who is exactly his mother, her, or Varvara Hovrina is not known for sure. Obviously historians loyal to Romanov dynasty always tried to claim so.
The worst thing about his assassination was that he had a draft of a new constitution in his pocket which was supposed to be published the next day. Alexander III. ripped the paper immediately after his father's death not knowing it would probably cost his son's life one day.
@@Saiputera Than what, death? Conservatism in 19th century Russia, a country which had barely made it into the 18th, is not what we consider conservatism today. Alexander III refusal of change at a key time in the country's history arguably made revolution inevitable.
Anyone who’s read “War and Peace” will know that the book primarily takes place during the reign of Alexander I, although the epilogue does cover the rise of the Decembrists, and Tolstoy’s whole motive for writing the book in the first place was because he wanted to tell the story of the return of the surviving Decembrists from exile (which I believe took place in the 1850s)...but in order to tell that story, he also had to tell the story of the Decembrists...but in order to tell that story, he also had to tell the story of how the Napoleonic Wars (and the French occupation of Moscow in 1812) led to the policies that led to the rise of the Decembrists in the first place. By the time he finishes telling his story, he ends up giving the world one epic story and he only remembers to mention the Decembrists at the very end (although it is implied that either Pierre or his son, I can’t remember which one off the top of my head, ends up becoming one of the Decembrists).
Tolstoy just wanted to tell the greatest story ever told in the longest book ever published at the time. His reason for wanting to do so was two fold. First he wanted the notoriety of completing such a project and the royalties for SO MANY pages and secondly he wanted to punish all scholars who would come after him for having the impudence to pry into his mind.
Dostoevsky’s Demons (Possessed) was about the revolutionary socialist/anarchists who were not happy with anything except overthrowing the current order. Both Tolstoy and Dostoevsky knew what was coming. The Tsars had police but the country was in the revolutionist grip in the last few decades of the empire.
I think that you might have mentioned that Alexander II was blown to pieces by an assassin's bomb. This heavily influenced his son and grandson who therefore saw liberalism as a dangerous weakness. Their reactionary attitude partially led to the eventual revolution.
Another great video! Thanks and greetings from Russia! One thing you didn't mention when talking about how it went wrong, it's that Alexander II was killed by revolutionary terrorists. He was reforming the state, but they wanted immediate radical change and were ready to kill for it. So his son, seeing that, believed that any kind of change is wrong and reforms are bad. He turned the country back, and this only made a revolution more likely.
Even more :) There were 7 attempts to murder Alexander ||, and in one of them was involved Lenin's brother. His punishment was a murder, and Lenin had seen that.
@@tyryonolofing3405 Lenin's brother tried to kill Alexander 3. By the way, another participant in the conspiracy was the elder brother of Józef Pilsudski. He was lucky, he was sentenced to exile in Siberia. But Lenin's brother was executed.
The story of Ivan V makes me so sad. My son is mentally and physically disabled and the idea that a bunch of people in this young man's family just used him and manipulated him, then ignored him after he served their purposes, until he died, infuriates and saddens me. Apparently though, his wife was very kind and loving to him, which is nice to know.
As much as Nicholas and George look a like, that want enough motivation for King George to keep his word and rescue the family and bring them back to England
Indeed. The best George V did was bring the Tsar’s sister, Grand Duchess Xenia and her children to England, and George was very kind to her, much to Queen Mary’s consternation. Grand Duchess Olga Romanoff (Xenia’s granddaughter) suspects that this was out of guilt for condemning Nicholas to the firing line
@@martychisnall No, George V instructed the government to withdraw the offer of asylum, after receiving letters from “people of all classes, known or unknown to him, voicing their concern at the residence of the ex-Emperor and Empress of Russia in this country”. I’m quoting a letter directly from the Royal Archives. He then sent a letter to Prime Minister David Lloyd George instructing him to (secretly) withdraw the asylum offer. Nicholas was completely unaware, writing in his diary “I’m packing books, things I wish to take with me if I go to England”
@@martychisnall screw not starting a major conflict, they should of crushed the Bolsheviks. Could have saved at least 50 million lives in the last century but then again maybe twice as many die in this alternate history
@@andrewscott8892 was'nt Britain already in the midle of a thing at the time that already required all their guns? And they were barely holding a empire with 40million, imagine a 100million people sick of empires.
It's interesting to see just how Germanized the Romanovs became . The last czar Nicholas II was 1.5% Russian at best in terms of ancestry . His children 0.7% . They were basically German by this point.
FUN FACT - my History teacher in the early 1980s actually looked like Rasputin and we all called him by that name 😂 He was a really good teacher though. I'm in the UK
I had a math teacher who looked a bit like Castro and so was pretty much universally known as Fidel, and later a boss who looked (but thankfully did not behave) rather like Charles Manson...one of the best teachers and one of the best bosses I ever had.
Alexander II was the last opportunity for Russia to modernise. Sadly, his son and grandson were bad rulers, if he hadn't been assasinated, he'd probably outlived his son and educated his grandson. One of the reasons why Nicholas was so fearful is because he ended up traumatized after seeing his grandfather dying in the Winter Palace, bleeding to death and with his legs destroyed.
Fun fact: Paul I thought that his mother was going to pass the crown to his son, Alexander I. Which is why he sought for the succession documents. Another fun fact: Paul I visited a “holy man” that “predicted” his family’s future. He then wrote a letter only to be opened and read 100 years later. It was Nicholas II that opened and read it with his wife. Nicholas and his wife were both somewhat excited to read it entering, only to be depressed when they left. The letter Paul wrote, spoke of what Paul listened to the holy man said, speaking of a tragedy befalling their dynasty and the empire. Including the Great War. And an addendum to Jack’s mention of Alexander III: Alexander III pushed back against his father’s reforms because he had several assassination attempts on him (Alexander II). Even during his visit to Paris, lucky enough the gun of the would-be assassin did not fire. Alexander II was killed by a second bomb after surviving the initial blast while checking on his retinue and the people that were hit. Alexander III concluded from this that the liberal reform policies implemented by his father were the cause of his demise. Interesting to know: Alexander was told that he would face a number of assassination attempts by a “holy man” (iirc). He might have concluded that the initial blast was the last attempt. It was Alexander II’s several assassination attempts and death that ended any walks outside without guards or retinue. His carriage was a bomb-proof one sent by my nephew, Napoleon III. It was very damaged after the first blast. Lastly, he also often went out on strolls in St. Petersburg without guards or retinue, the people would either normally greet, or just pass. Either way, a stroll. Alexander I might have faked his own death to become a monk, and hid in the far east. A report discovered an old man many years after his ‘death’ matching his description, with general knowledge and some items on the events during his reign, but doesn’t speak much of himself.
There lived a certain man, in Russia long ago He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow Most people looked at him with terror and with fear But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear He could preach the Bible like a preacher Full of ecstasy and fire But he also was the kind of teacher Women would desire Ra, Ra, Rasputin Lover of the Russian Queen There was a cat that really was gone Ra, Ra, Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine It was a shame how he carried on
If you do a reboot of the "who would be Emperor of Russia today" video you should explain all the mess about morganatic and unequal marriages otherwise the viewers can't understand why Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna and Karl Emich of Leiningen think they have a claim.
just a small nit-pick, but since on the chart, the romanian coat-of-arms was so near the russian family tree, I couldn't help but notice that you are using the modern version of it, while the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringens used to put their house crest (a black and white shield) right in the middle of it
I love your videos for the history and entertainment value. My cat loves your videos for the mouse movement. I have an adorable pic of her watching the TV.
It's a really good insight video about the Romanovs but you didn't include the reason why Alexander III turned into autocratic rule once again; his late father was assassinated and in his eyes this was due to his moderate point of view. Ah, and you could have paid a little mention about Maria Feodorovna, Paul's wife and her role as Dowager Emperess during the Napoleonic wars.
So. How do I throw my hat into the ring as a contender? The family lore is that Alex II was my great-grandfather by a Polish maid in the Winter Palace. My Uncles grew up in that house and often told us stories of their former lives. Granddad was half brother to Alex III making my dad the cousin of Nickolas II. Yes, I understand it was a morganatic relationship which started this line but I am a direct male descendant of the former Tzar. Not and offshoot through several marriages. And, like a true Russian Tzar, I don’t speak Russian. LOL.
That wasn’t a morganatic relationship, that’s an illegitimate mistress. Children of morganatic relationships are still legally legitimate, if that story is true you’re part of an illegitimate line like quite a few other people I’d imagine
Nicholas II was not the final Russian monarch, that would be his brother, the Grand Duke Micheal Alexandrovich, who was Tsar Mikhail II for approximately a day before he released a declaration not renouncing or abdicating the throne, but deferring acceptance of the Crown to the deliberative organs of the Russian Government. Neither the Duma, nor the Provisional Government, the Council of Ministers, the Petrograd Soviet, the All-Russian Constituent Assembly or Red Movement ever addressed this question. Alexander Kolchak, when he became the leader of the White Movement signed an agreement with the Allied Commission in Paris (from WWI) stating that he would under any circumstances restore “the regime that the Revolution had destroyed” ie, the monarchy, but this occurred approximately one year after the Grand Duke’s murder in June 1918. Addendum: Just to clarify, the Grand Duke *never* used the word referendum in his declaration. He stated that the Duma or any legitimately elected Governing body of Russia should determine the form of government, not the people.
Can you do a video on Queen Victoria and how literally every single monarchy was connected to her 😂 I just went down her family line and realised that her great grandchildren were those of the last Tsar, she’s also Prince Philips great grandmother (could be more greats in there but I briefly looked so I didn’t count) and not to mention the current HRH Queen Elizabeth the second. The only person not related is Megan, I bet if we went down Kate Middleton’s line she would be connected somehow too. Such a huge honeycomb of breeding, I’m surprised that history was able to keep such a detailed record of all of them 😵😳
Another interesting thing to note about the reforms of Peter the Great is that he abolished the Patriarchate of Moscow and replaced it with the "Holy Synod", which essentially functioned as a tool by which the Church could be subjugated to the will of the Tsar. It wasn't until 1917 that Patriarch Saint Tikhon of Moscow was elected at the new Patriarch of Moscow after 200 years.
If you are looking for Latin American themes, I can recommend the quatrocentonas families which are families that have been in the brazilian elite for centuries. Two interesting ones might be the Setúbal family that owns Brazil's largest private bank and the Monjardim family which is the family of Maysa a famous singer that married into the Matarazzos, the richest immigrant family of early 20th century Brazil.
could you do a video on how henry viii is related to all of his wives? distantly of course but i saw somewhere that they do all share a common ancestor
Another amazing video! 4:10 Imagine if Sigismund III was less of an uncompromising blockhead. History of Europe and the world could have been significantly different. People, including historians, have been downplaying the role of individuals in history for a century or so, as a pushback against the great man theory of history but I think we could consider the merits of an "individual f*uckups" theory of history, as I like to call it. Also, imagine Empress Elisabeth not dying suddenly in 1762 or Catherine the Great dying a few years earlier, leaving the Commonwealth free to fully implement the reforms of the Great Sejm (1788-92) with neither the 1792 Russo-Polish War nor the subsequent Second and Third Partitions happening.
Poles were asking to kick their asses. Nothing would've changed. Russia was a victim of Poland and had to struggle its way to take their Russian population(Ukrainans+Byelorussians = Russians too, same thing) out of accursed Polish rule.
Or Nicholas’s son Alexei. Nicholas released two abdication statements, though his second one was the one publicly released and they were dated to have occurred at the same time. In his first, Nicholas simply abdicated, but in his second he disinherited his son in favour of his brother. If you don’t count the second abdication as legitimate, then Alexei was the last Tsar as Alexei II. If the second one is legitimate, Micheal was Tsar as Mikhail II for approximately a day, or until his death depending on your metric
Mikhail refused to take the throne unless he was voted through a referendum after the constitution was drafted, as you might be aware, Lenin got upset because the communists didn't get enough seats in the constitutional assembly so he began the October Revolution, and then Russia went to hell.
My uncle was working on a family tree unfortunately passed away before he could finish one thing he came across was my family who was related to a tzar Stanislaw POTINSKI Zygmunt POTINSKI. I’m trying myself to finish the tree !
hard to think that "modern day dictating" is isolated in a way that there can be... over 900 individuals unanimously raining over one land. not one, tho i guess if they think they are the only one... good for them.
Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich didn't exactly refuse the throne on the death of Alexander I. He had agreed in 1820 to be excluded from the throne as a condition of obtaining permission to marry (morganatically) Polish Countess Joanna Grudzinska. A cousin of mine was her sister-in-law. The Emperor signed the Manifesto two or three years into the marriage, but it was never published to the Imperial Court. Konstantin published it only a few weeks after the Emperor died in 1825.
Reminder: From Peter III onward, all of the emperors or czars of Russia were from the house of Holstein-Gottorp which is a branch of the Danish house of Oldenburg
Your map at 8:09 does not represent the extent of the empire at the time voiceover talks about. Finland would remain with Sweden after the Great Northern War until 1809.
Actually, this translation is awful. It's more like gamo of thrones, with local noble, skilled enough to break through 30-40 families from boyarskaya duma, who hold most of army, administrative and even court position. That was Boris Godunov, who died, because of too big pie pice ;) After that, Impostor with polish wife became a tsar and Vasiliy Shyiskiy, who had at least 30 different relatives inside Moscow and army, and was a leader of Boyarskaya duma, organized a massacre, represented as a "revolt", and became Tsar. He also lost his position, there appeared the second fake Dmitriy, Polish king besieged Smolensk, and later, Moscow, and with this polish tsar, real power was under 7 most influential boyars - semiboyarshina, and one of them was.. Ivan Romanov, uncle of future Tsar. And father of Michael Romanov, Filaret, was captured by second impostor, and was widely known as a "robber's patriarch", because main supporters of impostors were.. Lawbreakers. It's like a wheel of unlimited kills, that finished only after Romanov's had changed their loyalty for the 5th time and supported not the polish successor, but rebellion lead by people from nizhniy Novgorod. And even they were deceived, and their leader's, prince Pozharskiy, palace was burned and most of his guards killed right before Zemskiy Sonor started to choose new Tsar. Isn't this a story for series?
8:20 It is not Russian Empire on the map. This is USSR in 1946-borders plus Finland. Many territories that are showing here as russian were independent or belonged to other states in XVIII century, some of them became russian only after WW2.
Ok, I just found some info I had been given from my father! It states that my family are descendants from Charlemagne, my dad’s grandfather was elected the new czar by the Boliars so it was czar Kharlomovs! Duchess of the Romonovs around WW1 From the Bolshevicks! Eugene Kharlomov Alexandervich, Wecheskav, Eugenevich Alexander wetcheslavavich the little empress! My mom was a French Queen from her heritage! This is some info that I was given from my father! They elected my family and were just about to make it more public than it already was and then all heck broke loose, apparently some very negative thinking people at that time period, felt that my family should be killed as well so they fled along with everyone else that fled and changed their name and grandma burned my grandpas papers without him knowing she was going to do it and then he died later...she died also...There is still my father & his sister, my aunt Natalea and she’s in New Jersey, my Grandparents lived in New Jersey! I was born in Virginia, I was given a gift from the Russian Embassy when I was born to my dad and mom and I still have it right now! It’s a Russian barrel and I have a Russian horse that was given to my brother.
Im interested in the first monarchs in europe and where did they come from originally? Where was the first castle built? Which nation had the 'first king queen' in Europe?
idk if there is a comment about this, but since there are 336 prior comments and i can't read all of them: Tsar Alexander II was the first son and Grand Duke Constantine was the second son of Tsar Nicholas I, respectively (and thus the ancestor of Prince Phillip and Charles). But otherwise: Love the Channel, Love Matt, Love Jack TTYL
Thoughts I just had: If Feodor I and Irene had A child, and said child got married to a Romanov person (It'd be the House of Rurik-Romanov, I assume) If Nicholas II wasn't killed in 1918 and if the Russian Revolution never happened at all. UsfelCharts makes these into videos
No, but neither did kids who were starving and being worked to death. (Or adults, for that matter.) There wasn’t really another option though. The children (actually teens and young adults, not kids) would have been rallying symbols in an ongoing civil war. Alexei would have likely died of hemophilia had he been set free without his family. Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia would have probably fared better had they been allowed to become peasants in Siberia. But a) there was a war on and b) symbols are powerful. Making them martyrs was a preferable option to allowing them or any descendants the opportunity to return to power. Plus none of the other young people on this chart who were imprisoned and killed deserved it either (like Ivan VI, who spent his whole life in prison). In a democracy, being a child protects you because you cannot vote and thus have no political power, and you do not have inherent right to power. You are just baggage of your powerful parent. This is not the case for monarchies or even other family businesses. Power is an inheritance and you have the right to it. Therefore children are not innocent or powerless.
@@katherinegilks3880 Neither did the millions that died under the Red Terror, the 21-22 famine, the Holodomor and the Great Purge. Just as a fact, the first famine under the soviets killed ten times more people than the last famine under the tsars.
@@danielforeroc Yes, what part of my comment made you think I would disagree with that? It isn't a competition for how many people died. No one who dies in famine (or a pandemic) deserves it, doesn't matter who the government is.
@@FloydMusic2011 How so? I offered a historical and political analysis explaining why the younger generation was not offered the protection and benefit of the doubt that our modern democratic society has come to confer on children of politicians. I believe that people who continue to call them children when a basic info search shows how old they actually were at the time are the less bright ones. (Not to mention an insult to their memory.)
"epileptic seizure while playing with a knife"
ah, yes, the good ol' slip and fall (on top of a knife)
Perhaps it went off while he was cleaning it? 😂
People accidentally stab themselves in the back all the time. Just like people who accidentally shoot themselves in the head multiple times.
Dmitry had been out of the room cleaning a gun. When he returned and pushed the door open, the door knocked him in the arm, causing him to slip, hit his head on the floor and accidentally stab himself twice in the forehead, five times in the neck and 16 times in the back in self-defense, leave visible signs of struggle such as broken glass and fallen furniture, and die in a few minutes after wrapping himself in a carpet. Only a few weeks earlier, he had announced that he was writing a book exposing shady business dealings within the State Department. The main beneficiaries of his death happened to be the only eyewitnesses.
@@bentilbury2002 Perhaps HE GOT OFF while cleaning it
So it was made to look like a suicide.
Romanovs getting the throne wasn't quite the start from scratch that it may have looked like since Filaret was Rurikid on his mother's side.
A huge number of Rurik's descendants were among the highest Russian aristocracy, and not only on the maternal side. Rurik had too many descendants. For example, the princes Obolensky, the descendants of Rurik in the male line. Therefore, only the descendants of the Moscow princes were counted for the succession to the throne.
This is not a fact. There is a possibility that Filaret is son of Evdakia Shuyskaya, but who is exactly his mother, her, or Varvara Hovrina is not known for sure. Obviously historians loyal to Romanov dynasty always tried to claim so.
Why didn't you mention the fact that Alexander II was assassinated? That was partially why his successor Alexander III rolled back reforms.
Well, partly. But he always was far more conservative than his father.
The worst thing about his assassination was that he had a draft of a new constitution in his pocket which was supposed to be published the next day. Alexander III. ripped the paper immediately after his father's death not knowing it would probably cost his son's life one day.
@@floraposteschild4184 conservative is better
@@Saiputera Than what, death? Conservatism in 19th century Russia, a country which had barely made it into the 18th, is not what we consider conservatism today. Alexander III refusal of change at a key time in the country's history arguably made revolution inevitable.
@@floraposteschild4184 thank God the ussr collapse
Anyone who’s read “War and Peace” will know that the book primarily takes place during the reign of Alexander I, although the epilogue does cover the rise of the Decembrists, and Tolstoy’s whole motive for writing the book in the first place was because he wanted to tell the story of the return of the surviving Decembrists from exile (which I believe took place in the 1850s)...but in order to tell that story, he also had to tell the story of the Decembrists...but in order to tell that story, he also had to tell the story of how the Napoleonic Wars (and the French occupation of Moscow in 1812) led to the policies that led to the rise of the Decembrists in the first place. By the time he finishes telling his story, he ends up giving the world one epic story and he only remembers to mention the Decembrists at the very end (although it is implied that either Pierre or his son, I can’t remember which one off the top of my head, ends up becoming one of the Decembrists).
Tolstoy just wanted to tell the greatest story ever told in the longest book ever published at the time. His reason for wanting to do so was two fold. First he wanted the notoriety of completing such a project and the royalties for SO MANY pages and secondly he wanted to punish all scholars who would come after him for having the impudence to pry into his mind.
Dostoevsky’s Demons (Possessed) was about the revolutionary socialist/anarchists who were not happy with anything except overthrowing the current order. Both Tolstoy and Dostoevsky knew what was coming. The Tsars had police but the country was in the revolutionist grip in the last few decades of the empire.
Pierre - (implied at the end of the book) would be among the Decemberists. Natasha was not convinced such an important person was her husband.
Thank you for the comment, I didn't know all that. 🤔
I think that you might have mentioned that Alexander II was blown to pieces by an assassin's bomb. This heavily influenced his son and grandson who therefore saw liberalism as a dangerous weakness. Their reactionary attitude partially led to the eventual revolution.
Another great video! Thanks and greetings from Russia!
One thing you didn't mention when talking about how it went wrong, it's that Alexander II was killed by revolutionary terrorists. He was reforming the state, but they wanted immediate radical change and were ready to kill for it. So his son, seeing that, believed that any kind of change is wrong and reforms are bad. He turned the country back, and this only made a revolution more likely.
Murder a reformist to get more radical change, get a reactionary instead. Good job
Even more :)
There were 7 attempts to murder Alexander ||, and in one of them was involved Lenin's brother. His punishment was a murder, and Lenin had seen that.
@@tyryonolofing3405 Lenin's brother tried to kill Alexander 3. By the way, another participant in the conspiracy was the elder brother of Józef Pilsudski. He was lucky, he was sentenced to exile in Siberia. But Lenin's brother was executed.
@@jangrosek4334 thx, you are right, that was a mistake) About Lenin, about Pilsudskiy.. Well, I wasn't interested enough so again thx)
He was too fast for some and too slow for others. IMO he could have instituted real change if he lived but then long term disaster.
The story of Ivan V makes me so sad. My son is mentally and physically disabled and the idea that a bunch of people in this young man's family just used him and manipulated him, then ignored him after he served their purposes, until he died, infuriates and saddens me. Apparently though, his wife was very kind and loving to him, which is nice to know.
As much as Nicholas and George look a like, that want enough motivation for King George to keep his word and rescue the family and bring them back to England
Indeed. The best George V did was bring the Tsar’s sister, Grand Duchess Xenia and her children to England, and George was very kind to her, much to Queen Mary’s consternation. Grand Duchess Olga Romanoff (Xenia’s granddaughter) suspects that this was out of guilt for condemning Nicholas to the firing line
@@martychisnall No, George V instructed the government to withdraw the offer of asylum, after receiving letters from “people of all classes, known or unknown to him, voicing their concern at the residence of the ex-Emperor and Empress of Russia in this country”. I’m quoting a letter directly from the Royal Archives. He then sent a letter to Prime Minister David Lloyd George instructing him to (secretly) withdraw the asylum offer. Nicholas was completely unaware, writing in his diary “I’m packing books, things I wish to take with me if I go to England”
@@martychisnall screw not starting a major conflict, they should of crushed the Bolsheviks. Could have saved at least 50 million lives in the last century but then again maybe twice as many die in this alternate history
@@andrewscott8892 was'nt Britain already in the midle of a thing at the time that already required all their guns? And they were barely holding a empire with 40million, imagine a 100million people sick of empires.
@@GustavoBrasilghc WW1 killed almost a generation of men. I doubt the British people would have wanted to go fight another war.
It's interesting to see just how Germanized the Romanovs became . The last czar Nicholas II was 1.5% Russian at best in terms of ancestry . His children 0.7% . They were basically German by this point.
Yes, Nicholas II's son had only 1/256 of Russian blood.
Well, he was a cousin of Wilhelm II and a relative of Victoria II (hence Alexei’s illness)
@@dumitruganusciac1590 Had Ivan the 6th lived and reign in his own right, the monarchy might still be here.
Just like the British.
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FUN FACT - my History teacher in the early 1980s actually looked like Rasputin and we all called him by that name 😂
He was a really good teacher though. I'm in the UK
there lived a certain man, in russia long ago-
My older brother used to have a beard so long that it looked like rasputin’s
I had a math teacher who looked a bit like Castro and so was pretty much universally known as Fidel, and later a boss who looked (but thankfully did not behave) rather like Charles Manson...one of the best teachers and one of the best bosses I ever had.
Alexander II was the last opportunity for Russia to modernise. Sadly, his son and grandson were bad rulers, if he hadn't been assasinated, he'd probably outlived his son and educated his grandson. One of the reasons why Nicholas was so fearful is because he ended up traumatized after seeing his grandfather dying in the Winter Palace, bleeding to death and with his legs destroyed.
Fun fact: Paul I thought that his mother was going to pass the crown to his son, Alexander I. Which is why he sought for the succession documents.
Another fun fact: Paul I visited a “holy man” that “predicted” his family’s future. He then wrote a letter only to be opened and read 100 years later. It was Nicholas II that opened and read it with his wife. Nicholas and his wife were both somewhat excited to read it entering, only to be depressed when they left. The letter Paul wrote, spoke of what Paul listened to the holy man said, speaking of a tragedy befalling their dynasty and the empire. Including the Great War.
And an addendum to Jack’s mention of Alexander III: Alexander III pushed back against his father’s reforms because he had several assassination attempts on him (Alexander II). Even during his visit to Paris, lucky enough the gun of the would-be assassin did not fire. Alexander II was killed by a second bomb after surviving the initial blast while checking on his retinue and the people that were hit. Alexander III concluded from this that the liberal reform policies implemented by his father were the cause of his demise.
Interesting to know: Alexander was told that he would face a number of assassination attempts by a “holy man” (iirc). He might have concluded that the initial blast was the last attempt. It was Alexander II’s several assassination attempts and death that ended any walks outside without guards or retinue. His carriage was a bomb-proof one sent by my nephew, Napoleon III. It was very damaged after the first blast. Lastly, he also often went out on strolls in St. Petersburg without guards or retinue, the people would either normally greet, or just pass. Either way, a stroll.
Alexander I might have faked his own death to become a monk, and hid in the far east. A report discovered an old man many years after his ‘death’ matching his description, with general knowledge and some items on the events during his reign, but doesn’t speak much of himself.
The fact that you decide to mentionyour nephew for a brief moment confused me for a second when I read it for the first time
thanks, you show good knowledge of material
The monk had a gift of Prophecy.
Monk Abel was imprisoned on the orders of Catherine the great for prophecising her death which came true.
@@virgilhoratio9819 but everyone dies
@@joemama-qy4fb i commented the name of the monk n his prophecy not whether how many died or lived. Dont comment like a hasty fool.
I just had a PowerPoint about the history of Russia 🇷🇺 this would have been so useful
It was already a video, this is just a redo of a really old one.
lol to bad
Go to Useful Charts. It’s a fantastic site, maybe it can help next time!😉
This was a remake this already existed for 2 years
UA-cam algorithm at it again. Like here's some stuff i could have shown you while you were looking for it but here it is 2 weeks later lol
There lived a certain man, in Russia long ago
He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
He could preach the Bible like a preacher
Full of ecstasy and fire
But he also was the kind of teacher
Women would desire
Ra, Ra, Rasputin
Lover of the Russian Queen
There was a cat that really was gone
Ra, Ra, Rasputin
Russia's greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on
Ra ra ratman
Russia’s greatest sham
I loved that track and Boney M
I envy the power of his shaft
Fun fact he wasn't lover of the "queen"...
pffffffffffffft BWAHAHAHAHAHAAHAGAH
The map at 8:09 is incorrect if it's supposed to show Peter the Great's expansion since Finland wasn't part of the Russian Empire until 1809.
Bessarabia until 1812 and the rest of the southern lands too
Russia had not conquered most of central Asia by that date, so the borders shown in that area are wrong.
Makes me wonder how accurate the rest of their information is
and the modern boundaries with Poland :/
This is a map of the USSR 1960 with Finland and without the Kuril Islands.
Alexander iii harsh reaction was in part due to the fact that his father was assassinated
If you do a reboot of the "who would be Emperor of Russia today" video you should explain all the mess about morganatic and unequal marriages otherwise the viewers can't understand why Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna and Karl Emich of Leiningen think they have a claim.
This channel is gold! Thank you for your wonderful work!
The person your chart is referring to as Anna Carlovna is always called Anna Leopoldovna in Russia
In fact, Holstein-Gottrov was a branch of Oldenburg, the then-Denmark-Norway dynasty.
A german dynasty ruling in Denmark
Thank you this was brilliant as the last few weeks I've been studying Nicholas and Alexandra and their deaths etc
That old epileptic seizure while playing with a knife Chestnut.
Great video! Also Jack impressed me with his correct pronunciation of name Władysław
8:21 - It's the map of the USSR after 1945, not the Russian Empire in the 17th century.
Grand Duke Constantine is shown as a son of Nicholas I in the video, when it should be labelled as his brother.
Never mind, just realised that it's a different Constantine
just a small nit-pick, but since on the chart, the romanian coat-of-arms was so near the russian family tree, I couldn't help but notice that you are using the modern version of it, while the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringens used to put their house crest (a black and white shield) right in the middle of it
Thanks. I'll change it on the next printing.
I love your videos for the history and entertainment value. My cat loves your videos for the mouse movement. I have an adorable pic of her watching the TV.
Keep up the good work!
That Russia is way too big for Peter the Great. In fact, it looks awfully like the Sowjet Union ...
run for your lives, Russians are coming
What can I say? I'm a chart guy, not a map guy!
Yeah, it's the Russian empire at the time of WW1, with Finland and central Asia.
@@martychisnall Not during Peter the Great's time.
@@martychisnall i don’t know about alaska but finland became a part of russia in 1808
WONDERFULLY DONE!
It’s crazy how people are casually deposed by wives or they just take power without actual family ties.
It's a really good insight video about the Romanovs but you didn't include the reason why Alexander III turned into autocratic rule once again; his late father was assassinated and in his eyes this was due to his moderate point of view.
Ah, and you could have paid a little mention about Maria Feodorovna, Paul's wife and her role as Dowager Emperess during the Napoleonic wars.
Excited for part 3
Informative!
8:08 Königsberg became part of Russia in 1945, Peter the Great died 220 years earlier
Way better than the original. Much more detail. Good job 👍
Will there ever be a combined huge east north west chart? I would absolutely love/buy that.
Matt said it’s possible but it would be pretty expensive to print
@@Zach-mw5so The price of education is PRICELESS.
Nicholas when his advisors said to not do that because that would upset the people: “People? What People?” proceeds to kill them
17:58 Who could've predicted 120ish years ago these two nations would take completely different routes?
So. How do I throw my hat into the ring as a contender? The family lore is that Alex II was my great-grandfather by a Polish maid in the Winter Palace. My Uncles grew up in that house and often told us stories of their former lives. Granddad was half brother to Alex III making my dad the cousin of Nickolas II. Yes, I understand it was a morganatic relationship which started this line but I am a direct male descendant of the former Tzar. Not and offshoot through several marriages. And, like a true Russian Tzar, I don’t speak Russian. LOL.
That wasn’t a morganatic relationship, that’s an illegitimate mistress. Children of morganatic relationships are still legally legitimate, if that story is true you’re part of an illegitimate line like quite a few other people I’d imagine
Matt and Jack could make a video about if Cromwell accepted the title of King and his descendants still ruled England
Agreed.
Nicholas II was not the final Russian monarch, that would be his brother, the Grand Duke Micheal Alexandrovich, who was Tsar Mikhail II for approximately a day before he released a declaration not renouncing or abdicating the throne, but deferring acceptance of the Crown to the deliberative organs of the Russian Government. Neither the Duma, nor the Provisional Government, the Council of Ministers, the Petrograd Soviet, the All-Russian Constituent Assembly or Red Movement ever addressed this question. Alexander Kolchak, when he became the leader of the White Movement signed an agreement with the Allied Commission in Paris (from WWI) stating that he would under any circumstances restore “the regime that the Revolution had destroyed” ie, the monarchy, but this occurred approximately one year after the Grand Duke’s murder in June 1918.
Addendum: Just to clarify, the Grand Duke *never* used the word referendum in his declaration. He stated that the Duma or any legitimately elected Governing body of Russia should determine the form of government, not the people.
Good video!
Can you do a video on Queen Victoria and how literally every single monarchy was connected to her 😂
I just went down her family line and realised that her great grandchildren were those of the last Tsar, she’s also Prince Philips great grandmother (could be more greats in there but I briefly looked so I didn’t count) and not to mention the current HRH Queen Elizabeth the second.
The only person not related is Megan, I bet if we went down Kate Middleton’s line she would be connected somehow too.
Such a huge honeycomb of breeding, I’m surprised that history was able to keep such a detailed record of all of them 😵😳
I wanna see that 👀👀
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Another interesting thing to note about the reforms of Peter the Great is that he abolished the Patriarchate of Moscow and replaced it with the "Holy Synod", which essentially functioned as a tool by which the Church could be subjugated to the will of the Tsar. It wasn't until 1917 that Patriarch Saint Tikhon of Moscow was elected at the new Patriarch of Moscow after 200 years.
Awesome!
Next you should do on who would be king of England if Harold Godwinson Won 1066
Thank you..
If you are looking for Latin American themes, I can recommend the quatrocentonas families which are families that have been in the brazilian elite for centuries. Two interesting ones might be the Setúbal family that owns Brazil's largest private bank and the Monjardim family which is the family of Maysa a famous singer that married into the Matarazzos, the richest immigrant family of early 20th century Brazil.
uploaded this right as my class started
could you do a video on how henry viii is related to all of his wives? distantly of course but i saw somewhere that they do all share a common ancestor
Just to point out that Alexander I onwards they were also grand dukes/princes of finland
thnak you!!!
Please consider doing a video on Monarchs of Sicily, starting with Count Roger I of Hauteville.
Good suggestions
I've always been interested in the Russian royals. Thank you for the video!
This is a very good video.
Good job
Wow. What a powerfull tree. These guys made big hisory.
2:02 Dimitry was An Imposter
Perfect that tsars are updated the week after Rurik dynasty
Nice
Fascinating.🤔
Another amazing video!
4:10 Imagine if Sigismund III was less of an uncompromising blockhead. History of Europe and the world could have been significantly different. People, including historians, have been downplaying the role of individuals in history for a century or so, as a pushback against the great man theory of history but I think we could consider the merits of an "individual f*uckups" theory of history, as I like to call it.
Also, imagine Empress Elisabeth not dying suddenly in 1762 or Catherine the Great dying a few years earlier, leaving the Commonwealth free to fully implement the reforms of the Great Sejm (1788-92) with neither the 1792 Russo-Polish War nor the subsequent Second and Third Partitions happening.
Poles were asking to kick their asses. Nothing would've changed. Russia was a victim of Poland and had to struggle its way to take their Russian population(Ukrainans+Byelorussians = Russians too, same thing) out of accursed Polish rule.
All Vazas in the Polish throne were kind of stubborn in a bad way
I still think Michael Alexandrovitch was the actual last legal Tsar
Or Nicholas’s son Alexei. Nicholas released two abdication statements, though his second one was the one publicly released and they were dated to have occurred at the same time. In his first, Nicholas simply abdicated, but in his second he disinherited his son in favour of his brother. If you don’t count the second abdication as legitimate, then Alexei was the last Tsar as Alexei II. If the second one is legitimate, Micheal was Tsar as Mikhail II for approximately a day, or until his death depending on your metric
Mikhail refused to take the throne unless he was voted through a referendum after the constitution was drafted, as you might be aware, Lenin got upset because the communists didn't get enough seats in the constitutional assembly so he began the October Revolution, and then Russia went to hell.
My uncle was working on a family tree unfortunately passed away before he could finish one thing he came across was my family who was related to a tzar
Stanislaw POTINSKI
Zygmunt POTINSKI. I’m trying myself to finish the tree !
their is a hell of a lot more then just those 10 branches.
hard to think that "modern day dictating" is isolated in a way that there can be... over 900 individuals unanimously raining over one land. not one, tho i guess if they think they are the only one... good for them.
It went out with a bang.
False Dimitry was the Impostor
0 impostors remain
False Dmitri I was the Impostor. 2 impostors remain
Peter The great founded St Petersburg, but it was not named after him like many think, it was named after Saint Peter, one of Jesus's Twelve Apostles
Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich didn't exactly refuse the throne on the death of Alexander I.
He had agreed in 1820 to be excluded from the throne as a condition of obtaining permission to marry (morganatically) Polish Countess Joanna Grudzinska. A cousin of mine was her sister-in-law.
The Emperor signed the Manifesto two or three years into the marriage, but it was never published to the Imperial Court. Konstantin published it only a few weeks after the Emperor died in 1825.
When is Italy family tree(savoy, bourbon, Anjou, Medici, Habsburg, este
Reminder: From Peter III onward, all of the emperors or czars of Russia were from the house of Holstein-Gottorp which is a branch of the Danish house of Oldenburg
To say Oldenburg is a Danish house is a bit of.
The house of Oldenburg is a German house which provided the kings of Denmark from 1448.
German house
I love how these are put together but this one was a little to dry and very confusing to follow 🤯
Catherine the Great - - - - - - Seabiscuit
Your map at 8:09 does not represent the extent of the empire at the time voiceover talks about. Finland would remain with Sweden after the Great Northern War until 1809.
0:46 The time of Troubles. Sounds nice.
Actually, this translation is awful. It's more like gamo of thrones, with local noble, skilled enough to break through 30-40 families from boyarskaya duma, who hold most of army, administrative and even court position. That was Boris Godunov, who died, because of too big pie pice ;)
After that, Impostor with polish wife became a tsar and Vasiliy Shyiskiy, who had at least 30 different relatives inside Moscow and army, and was a leader of Boyarskaya duma, organized a massacre, represented as a "revolt", and became Tsar. He also lost his position, there appeared the second fake Dmitriy, Polish king besieged Smolensk, and later, Moscow, and with this polish tsar, real power was under 7 most influential boyars - semiboyarshina, and one of them was.. Ivan Romanov, uncle of future Tsar. And father of Michael Romanov, Filaret, was captured by second impostor, and was widely known as a "robber's patriarch", because main supporters of impostors were.. Lawbreakers. It's like a wheel of unlimited kills, that finished only after Romanov's had changed their loyalty for the 5th time and supported not the polish successor, but rebellion lead by people from nizhniy Novgorod. And even they were deceived, and their leader's, prince Pozharskiy, palace was burned and most of his guards killed right before Zemskiy Sonor started to choose new Tsar. Isn't this a story for series?
What program do you use to make these family trees/charts? I’d love to use it to make my own family tree.
8:20 It is not Russian Empire on the map. This is USSR in 1946-borders plus Finland. Many territories that are showing here as russian were independent or belonged to other states in XVIII century, some of them became russian only after WW2.
Oh yes
2:01 SUS
Ok, I just found some info I had been given from my father! It states that my family are descendants from Charlemagne, my dad’s grandfather was elected the new czar by the Boliars so it was czar Kharlomovs!
Duchess of the Romonovs around WW1
From the Bolshevicks! Eugene Kharlomov Alexandervich, Wecheskav, Eugenevich Alexander wetcheslavavich the little empress! My mom was a French Queen from her heritage! This is some info that I was given from my father! They elected my family and were just about to make it more public than it already was and then all heck broke loose, apparently some very negative thinking people at that time period, felt that my family should be killed as well so they fled along with everyone else that fled and changed their name and grandma burned my grandpas papers without him knowing she was going to do it and then he died later...she died also...There is still my father & his sister, my aunt Natalea and she’s in New Jersey, my Grandparents lived in New Jersey! I was born in Virginia, I was given a gift from the Russian Embassy when I was born to my dad and mom and I still have it right now! It’s a Russian barrel and I have a Russian horse that was given to my brother.
I could have lived to see the Romanovs in action today.
Day 1 of asking you to do the Lithuanian leaders family tree
Im interested in the first monarchs in europe and where did they come from originally? Where was the first castle built? Which nation had the 'first king queen' in Europe?
Dmitry was The Imposter.
idk if there is a comment about this, but since there are 336 prior comments and i can't read all of them: Tsar Alexander II was the first son and Grand Duke Constantine was the second son of Tsar Nicholas I, respectively (and thus the ancestor of Prince Phillip and Charles). But otherwise: Love the Channel, Love Matt, Love Jack TTYL
My favourite one is Ekaterina or Catherine the Great
Video suggestion! Who would be king of England is oliver cromwell accepted the invitation to become king!
Ertugul family tree next please
Thoughts I just had:
If Feodor I and Irene had A child, and said child got married to a Romanov person (It'd be the House of Rurik-Romanov, I assume)
If Nicholas II wasn't killed in 1918 and if the Russian Revolution never happened at all.
UsfelCharts makes these into videos
So Hey there When do we get a House of Flanders and House of Reginar / House of Brabant Video?
but daughter of Catherine Ioannovna/Ivanovna in Othrodoxy was named as Anna Leopoldovna, not Carlovna
Nicolas II children didn't deserve that terrible fate.
No, but neither did kids who were starving and being worked to death. (Or adults, for that matter.) There wasn’t really another option though. The children (actually teens and young adults, not kids) would have been rallying symbols in an ongoing civil war. Alexei would have likely died of hemophilia had he been set free without his family. Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia would have probably fared better had they been allowed to become peasants in Siberia. But a) there was a war on and b) symbols are powerful. Making them martyrs was a preferable option to allowing them or any descendants the opportunity to return to power.
Plus none of the other young people on this chart who were imprisoned and killed deserved it either (like Ivan VI, who spent his whole life in prison). In a democracy, being a child protects you because you cannot vote and thus have no political power, and you do not have inherent right to power. You are just baggage of your powerful parent. This is not the case for monarchies or even other family businesses. Power is an inheritance and you have the right to it. Therefore children are not innocent or powerless.
@@katherinegilks3880 you don't come across as too bright!
@@katherinegilks3880 Neither did the millions that died under the Red Terror, the 21-22 famine, the Holodomor and the Great Purge. Just as a fact, the first famine under the soviets killed ten times more people than the last famine under the tsars.
@@danielforeroc Yes, what part of my comment made you think I would disagree with that? It isn't a competition for how many people died. No one who dies in famine (or a pandemic) deserves it, doesn't matter who the government is.
@@FloydMusic2011 How so? I offered a historical and political analysis explaining why the younger generation was not offered the protection and benefit of the doubt that our modern democratic society has come to confer on children of politicians. I believe that people who continue to call them children when a basic info search shows how old they actually were at the time are the less bright ones. (Not to mention an insult to their memory.)
There is one impostor among the tsars
Alexander the first?
The mother of Ivan VI is called "Anna Leopoldovna" in Russian tradition, not "Anna Carlovna"
I wonder why the Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov union was removed from the new chart (on the Western European chart)?
Just for simplicity. Russia & Denmark are mostly covered on the Eastern chart now.
Was gonna make a funni-clockman-Blessed-Tsar-Alexei-is-still-alive joke from TNO but neverminddd.
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I assume the Rocky and Bullwinkle show's character Boris Badunuv is based on Boris Godunuv.
Ah the Romanovs. I'm sure the dynasty won't end tragically. 😉😉😉