RUSSIA.
IVAN III, Vassilievitch, 1462-1505, m.
Sophia, daughter of Thomas Palaeologus,
brother of Emperor Constantine XIII.
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+—BASIL IV, 1505-1533.
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+—IVAN IV,[1] 1533-1584,
| m.
| +—Anastasia
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| | HOUSE OF ROMANOFF
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| +—Nicetas.
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| +—Mary [4] (Marta the Nun), m.
| Theodore (Philaret the Metropolitan).
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| +—MICHAEL, 1613-1645.
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| +—ALEXIS, 1645-1676.
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| +—THEODORE, 1676-1682.
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| +—IVAN V, 1682-1689, resigned; d. 1696.
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| | +—ANNA, 1730-1740.
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| | +—Catharine m. Charles Leopold,
| | Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
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| | +—Anna, m. Antony Ulric, son of
| | Ferdinand Albert II,
| | of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel.
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| | +—IVAN VI, 1740-1741, deposed.
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| +—PETER I (the Great) 1689-1725, m.
| (1), Eudocia;
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| +—Alexis, executed 1718. m.
| Charlotte, d. of Lewis Rudolph,
| Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel
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| +—PETER II, 1727-1730.
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| (2), CATHARINE I, 1725-1727.
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| +—Anna, d. 1738, m.
| | Charles Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp.
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| | +—PETER III, January-July, 1762
| | (deposed, and died soon after) m.
| | CATHERINE II of Anhalt, 1762-1796.
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| | +—PAUL, 1796-1801.
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| | +—ALEXANDER I, 1801-1825.
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| | +—NICHOLAS, 1825-1855, m.
| | Charlotte, daughter of Frederick
| | William III of Prussia.
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| | +—ALEXANDER II, 1855-1881, m.
| | Mary of Hesse Darmstadt.
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| | +—ALEXANDER III, 1881- m.
| | Mary (Dagmar), daughter
| | of Christian IX of Denmark
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| +—ELIZABETH, 1741-1762.
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+—THEODORE, 1584-1598.
m.
+—Irene,[2]
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+—BORIS, Godounof, [3] 1598-1605.
1 First Czar. 2 Declined the crown on Theodore's death, which was seized by her brother. 3 Succeeded by an imposter pretending to be Demetrius, son of Ivan IV, who reigned for one year; then Basil V, 1606-1610; then chaos until 1613. 4 Said to be a descendent of the old royal house.
[Mainly from George's Genealogical Tables.]