Dynasty
Holstein-Gottorp-Romanovs
The genealogical name of the later branch
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- 1762–1917
The male-line descendants of Anna Petrovna and Duke Charles Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp form the Holstein branch of the Russian Imperial House. The Romanov dynastic name was retained. Catherine II was born into the House of Anhalt-Zerbst and took the throne after a coup against Peter III.
- First member on the throne
- Peter III, 1762.
- Name
- A genealogical distinction within the history of the House of Romanov, not a change in the name of the state.
- Symbols
- For the later family coat of arms, see the House of Romanov card; no separate medieval coat of arms for this branch is reconstructed.