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It was joyful, desperate, worrying and chaotic all in one go - with quiet just about the only thing Vladimir Romanov’s era at ... Here are 12 defining photos from that era.

The Romanov family ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917 ... known as the Time of Troubles (1589 Ü 1613). The last tsar of the previous dynasty, a weak son of Ivan the Terrible, died in 1589.

The Romanov sisters were the most photographed princesses of their day, yet the world knew very little of the four girls in the official portraits. The daughters of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of ...