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Russian Princes
() was the title introduced in the Russian Empire in 1886 for distant descendants of the emperor. The title was granted to great-grandchildren and their descendants (and their wives) instead of the more honorable "Grand prince/Grand Duke" (; for children and grandchildren). It was introduced due to a significant increase in the number of members of the House of Romanov, in order to cut the expenses required by the law for Grand Princes/Princesses. Story In 1885 Alexander III of Russia, Emperor Alexander III formalised the use of titles in the Imperial House by amendment to the succession laws. Grand prince belonged henceforward only to sons and paternal grandsons of the Emperors of Russia, and Grand princess correspondingly only to daughters and paternal granddaughters, as well as to legitimate wives of Grand princes. One male infant only 9 days old at the time of Alexander's edict thus lost the title. Those Russian dynasts who genealogically were distant from Emperors (as not t ...
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughly one-sixth of the world's landmass, making it the list of largest empires, third-largest empire in history, behind only the British Empire, British and Mongol Empire, Mongol empires. It also Russian colonization of North America, colonized Alaska between 1799 and 1867. The empire's 1897 census, the only one it conducted, found a population of 125.6 million with considerable ethnic, linguistic, religious, and socioeconomic diversity. From the 10th to 17th centuries, the Russians had been ruled by a noble class known as the boyars, above whom was the tsar, an absolute monarch. The groundwork of the Russian Empire was laid by Ivan III (), who greatly expanded his domain, established a centralized Russian national state, and secured inde ...
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