How far back can the Romanov family be traced?

Question

Please give me the earliest recorded ancestor of the Romanov Dynasty of Russia. Thanks!!

Answer 1

"The House of Romanov was the second and last imperial dynasty of Russia, which ruled the country from 1613 to 1761."

Direct quote from Wikipedia

Answer 2

It depends on which branches you'd like to search. The Romanovs were significantly intertwined with the other royal houses of Europe. Czarina Alexandria was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria of England. Catherine the Great was a Prussian (German) princess with cousins on the thrones of Sweden and Austria.

If you're only tracing the male lineage, you can go back to the 900s. If you're tracing all of the lines, you can go back to the 600s. The more you look at the historical records, the more you'll appreciate the inability of certain families to give up power. They just married their own cousins to keep from sharing power with other families. In this case, it makes the tracing of the lines pretty simple...it's like a macrame plant hanger that ties itself in knots rather than being a tall, statuesque tree with each branch separate and distinct.

Answer 3

You might find this website interesting.

http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/