Romanov

Romanov or Ro·ma·noff [roh-muh-nawf, -nof, roh-mah-nuh f; Russian ruh-mah-nuh f] Examples noun

a member of the imperial dynasty of Russia that ruled from 1613 to 1917.
Mi·kha·il Feo·do·ro·vich [myi-khuh-yeel fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /myɪ xʌˈyil ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/, 1596–1645, emperor of Russia 1613–45: first ruler of the house of Romanov.

Examples from the Web for romanov Contemporary Examples of romanov

Nicholas II, the last Romanov, built the graceful Livadia Palace on top of a hill there.

Anna Nemtsova

September 8, 2014

The Romanov tsars imposed rigid serfdom just as that woeful institution was fading almost everywhere else.

P. J. O’Rourke

May 11, 2014

“Russia has at present less freedom than it had in the earliest days of Romanov rule,” he declared in 1923.

Wendy Smith

November 5, 2013

One of the last of the Romanov dynasty comes to dinner in Israel.

David Frum

May 2, 2013

And then The Romanov Prophecy came in 2004, and The Third Secret in 2005.

Noah Charney

July 11, 2012

Historical Examples of romanov

I told him flatly that I would take no part in any Romanov adventures.

Anton Ivanovich Denikin

Anastasia Romanova, daughter of Roman, hence the name by which the family was afterwards distinguished—Romanov.

Hector H. Munro

Public opinion is definitely and resolutely opposed to any members of the House of Romanov holding any office in the State.

Anton Ivanovich Denikin

Not only was the Romanov dynasty ended, but equally so was monarchical Absolutism itself.

John Spargo

The Romanov family in especial suffered severely from these delations.

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British Dictionary definitions for romanov Romanov noun

any member of the Russian imperial dynasty that ruled from the crowning (1613) of Mikhail Fyodorovich to the abdication (1917) of Nicholas II during the February Revolution