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RUSSIA.

(Empire of All the Russias.) Reigning Emperor.

Nicholas II., Emperor of All the Russias, born May 6 (18), 1868, the eldest son of ' the Emperor Alexander .II f. and of Princess Dagmar {Maria Fcodorovna), daughter of the late King Christian IX. of Denmark ; ascended the throne at the death of his father October 20 (November 1), 1894 ; married, November 14 (26), 1894, to Princess Alexandra Alix {Alexandra Feodorovna), daughter of Ludwig IV., Grand Duke of Hesse, born May 25 (June 6\ 1872.

Son and Daughters of the Emperor.

Grand-duchess Olga, born November 3 (15), 1895.

Grand-duchess Tatiana, born May 29 (June 10), 1897.

Grand-duchess Marie, born June 14 (26), 1899.

Grand-duchess Anastasia, born June 5 (18), 1901.

Grand-duke Alexis (heir apparent), born July 30 (August 12), 1904.

Mother of the Emperor. Empress Marie {Dafimar), widow of Emperor Alexander III., born November H (20), 1847.

Brother and Sisters of the Emperor,

I. Grand-duchess Xetiia, born March 25 (April (5), 1875; married to Grand-dnke Alexander Mikhailovich.

II. Qrand-duke Michael, born November 22-(December 4), 1878.

III. Grand-.Juchess Olga, born June 1 (13), 1882; married, July 27 (August P), 1901. to Peter Alexandrovich, Duke of Oldenburg.

Uncles and Aunts of the Emperor.

I. The children of the late Grand-duke Vladimir :— 1. Cyril, born September 30 (October 12), 187() ; married, October 8(21), 1905, to Princess Victoria Feodorovna of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (divorced Gi and Duchess of Hesse). Offspring : Marie, born January 20 (February 3). 1907, and Kira, born April 20 (May 9), 1909. 2. Boris, born November 12 (24), 1877. 3. Andreas, born May 2 (14), 1879. 4. Helene, born January 17 (29), 1882 ; married, August IG (29), 1902, to Prince Nikolaos of Greece {see Greece).

II. Grand-duohess Maria, born October 5 (17), 1853 ; married January 23, 1874, to the Duke of Edinburgh, son of Queen Victoria of Great Britain, who died July 30, 1900.

III. Grand-duke Paul, born September 21 (October 3,), 1800; -married (1) June 5, (17), 1SS9, to Princess Alexandra, daughter of the King of Greece, who died September 12 (24), 1891 ; (2) morganatically, September 27 (October 10), 1902, to Olga Valerianovna Karnovitch, Countess von Hohenfclsen. Offspring of the first marriage : Maria, born April t) (18), 1890; married, April 20 (May 3), 1908, to Prince "Wilhelm, Dukeof Scider- manland (Sweden); Dimitri, born September (18), 1891.

The reigning family of Russia descend, in the female line, from Michael Romanof, elected Tsar in 1613, after the extinction of the House of Rurik ; and

in the male line from the Duke Karl Friedrich of Holstein-Gottorp, born in