Were the Tsars Franks, Habsburgs, Norse, or Slavs? Were the Romanovs Franks, Normans, or Habsburgs?

Question

Were the Tsars Franks, Habsburgs, Norse, or Slavs? Were the Romanovs Franks, Normans, or Habsburgs?

Answer 1

Ivan the Terrible (the first Tsar if I remember correctly), was half Tartar and half Russian.  I think Anastasia was from local Russian "minor" nobility.  She wasn't a peasant, but she was looked down upon before she became the queen.  Their descendants held power until communism, so there you go.

Part 2 I don't remember.

Answer 2

Hard question...I believe the Tsars were mostly a Slavic line, which means that in the earliest days of the monarch, they were Norse.  However, when Nicholas II married Alexandra, he married into the house of Queen Victoria, who I believe was a Hapsburg.

Answer 3

The Romanovs were Russian, therefore Slavs. The ruling title was Tzar/Czars (after Cesar) The male was Tzar the female Tzarina. The Hapsburgs were the Austrian ruling house and they were Franks

Skip who married who, it is the line itself with the title

Answer 4

The Romanov dynasty, who were Tsars of Russia from  1613 to 1917, were native Russian (therefore Slav) in origin. Certainly not Norse (the kingdom of Kiev in the Ukraine was originally founded by Vikings but that was eight centuries earlier). Like all the other royal families in Europe they soon took to marrying foreign royalty, mostly German ones, so their genetic makeup in later generations wasn't particularly Slav.

The poster who said Queen Victoria was a Habsburg should wash his or her mouth out! She was a respectable Protestant Hanoverian, and she despised the Catholic, Austrian Habsburgs.

Answer 5

The Tsars were Romanovs.  At least the last ones were.  You are mixing metaphors, here.  You can't ask if a person is of a certain familial line as opposed to a nationality.  One can be both a Habsburg, and a Frank, for instance.  The later ones were both.  Charles V would have had both backgrounds, as both a Habsburg by name, and a descendant of Charlemagne.  

I believe, given your list of choices, that they had mostly slavic derivation, and probably had married the Habsburgs several times, but not knowing which women were their queens, nor where they were from, I couldn't really say.  

Nicholas (and Alexandra)  was related to Queen Victoria, making them both of the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gothe, and I'm sure they were also related to the French/Spanish/Viennese line, as well.