The Romanov dynasty

French artist Jean Henri Benner
court portrait painter, miniaturist at the court of Alexander I, from 1817 to 1828.

Tsarina Evdokia Feodorovna nee Lopukhina (at birth Praskovya Illarionovna, in monasticism Helena; 1669-1731) - tsarina, the first wife of Peter I (from January 27, 1689 to 1698), mother of Tsarevich Alexei, the last Russian tsarina and the last reigning non-archaic spouse of the Russian monarch.

Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich (Alexei Petrovich Romanov 1690-1718) - the heir to the Russian throne, the eldest son of Peter I and his first wife Evdokia Lopukhina.

Catherine I (Marta Samuilovna Skavronskaya (Kruse), Ekaterina Alekseevna Mikhailova) 1684-1727) - Russian empress from 1721 as the wife of the reigning emperor, from 1725 as the ruling empress; second wife of Peter I the Great, mother of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna.

Peter II Alekseevich (1715-1730) - Russian emperor, who succeeded Catherine I on the throne.
Grandson of Peter I, son of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich and German princess Sophia-Charlotte of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, the last representative of the Romanov family in the direct male line.
He ascended the throne on May 6 (17), 1727, when he was only eleven years old, and died at the age of 14 from smallpox.

Anna Ioannovna (Anna Ivanovna; 1693-1740) - Russian empress from the Romanov dynasty.
The second daughter of Tsar Ivan V (brother and co-ruler of Tsar Peter I) and Tsarina Praskovya Fyodorovna. In 1710 she was married to the Duke of Courland Friedrich Wilhelm; widowed 2.5 months after the wedding, she remained in Courland. After the death of Peter II, she was invited to the Russian throne by the Supreme Privy Council in 1730 as a monarch with limited powers in favor of the aristocrats - the "supreme leaders", but, with the support of the nobles, restored absolutism by dissolving the Supreme Privy Council. The time of her reign was later called "Bironovshchina" after her favorite Ernst Biron.

Elizabeth I Petrovna (1709-1761) - Russian empress from the Romanov dynasty from November 25 (December 6) 1741, the youngest daughter of Peter I and Catherine I, born two years before their marriage.