The Head of the Russian Imperial House,
H.I.H. The Grand Duchess Maria of Russia,
H.I.H. The Heir, Tsesarevich, and Grand Duke George of Russia,
and his spouse, H.S.H. Princess Victoria Romanovna,
extend their heartfelt thanks to all their countrymen and to the friends of Russia around the world, who have sent them holiday greetings,
and likewise wish a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in 2022 to all.
May you enjoy health, happiness, strength of spirit, and God’s help in all your endeavours.
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Grand Duchess Maria of Russia also thanks all those who sent their congratulations on her birthday.
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In 2022, the Imperial House will mark the following anniversaries and annual commemorations
(Dates according to the Gregorian Calendar.)
January 9, 2022. The 945th anniversary of the birth of Grand Prince St. Sviatoslav II Yaroslavich (1076/1077), son of Grand Prince St. Yaroslav I the Wise and Grand Princess Irina (née Princess of Sweden)
January 12, 2022. The 650th anniversary of the birth of Grand Prince Vasilii I Dimitrievich (1371/1372), son of Grand Prince St. Dimitrii II Donskoi and Grand Princess St. Evdokia Dimitrievna (née Princess of Suzdal-Nizhnii Novgorod).
January 10, 2022. The 315th anniversary of the birth of Tsarevna Ekaterina Petrovna (1706/1707), daughter of Tsar Peter I the Great and Tsaritsa Catherine Alekseevna (née Skavronskaya) and the 215th anniversary of the birth of Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna (1806/1807), spouse of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich (née Princess of Württemberg), daughter of Duke Paul-Heinrich-Karl-Friedrich of Württemberg and Princess Katharina-Charlotte-Friederike-Sophie-Therese (née Princess of Saxe-Altenburg)
January 25, 2022. The 125th anniversary of the birth of Prince of the Imperial Blood Andrei Alexandrovich (1897), son of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna.
January 26, 2022. The 130th anniversary of the death of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich (1892), son of Emperor Nicholas I and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (née Princess of Prussia)
January 29, 2022. The 475th anniversary of the coronation of Grand Prince Ivan IV the Terrible as Tsar in the Dormition (Uspenskii) Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin (1547)
January 30, 2022. The 140th anniversary of the birth of Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna, Princess of Greece and Denmark (1882), daughter of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna the Elder, spouse of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark.
February 16, 2022. The 475th anniversary of the wedding of Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible and Tsaritsa Anastasia Romanovna (née Zakharina-Iurieva)
February 25, 2022. The 330th anniversary of the death of Tsarevna Maria Ioannovna (1692), daughter of Tsar Ivan V and Tsaritsa Paraskeva Feodorovna (née Saltykova)
March 5, 2022. The 80th anniversary of the death of Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich (1942), son of the Holy New Martyr Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich and Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna (née Princess of Greece and Denmark)
March 11, 2022. The 100th anniversary of the death of Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1922), daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich and Grand Duchess Olga Feodorovna (née Princess of Baden), spouse of Grand Duke Friedrich-Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
March 13, 2022. The 130th anniversary of the birth of Princess of the Imperial Blood Maria Petrovna (1892), daughter of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich and Grand Duchess Militsa Nikolaevna (née Princess of Montenegro)
And the 15th anniversary of the death of Princess of the Imperial Blood Catherine Ivanovna (2007), daughter of the Holy New Martyr Prince of the Imperial Blood Ivan Konstantinovich and Princess of the Imperial Blood Elena Petrovna (née Princess of Serbia)
March 23, 2022. The 310th anniversary of the death of Tsarevna Evdokia Alekseevna (1712), daughter of Tsar Aleksei I Mikhailovich and Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna (née Miloslavskaya)
March 27, 2022. The 855th anniversary of the death of Grand Prince St. Rostislav I Mstislavich (1167), son of Grand Prince St. Mstislav I the Great and Grand Princess Christina (née Princess of Sweden)
March 28, 2022. The 190th anniversary of the death of Grand Duchess Alexandra Mikhailovna (1832), daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich and Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna (née Princess of Württemberg)
April 7, 2022. The 95th anniversary of the death of Grand Duchess Elisabeth Mavrikievna (née Princess of Saxe-Altenburg) (1927), spouse of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, and daughter of Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg and Princess Marie-Louise of Saxe-Altenburg (née Princess of Saxe-Meiningen)
April 9, 2022. The 560th anniversary of the death of Grand Prince Vasilii II the Blind (1462), son of Grand Prince Vasilii I and Grand Duchess Sophia Vitovtovna (née Princess of Lithuania)
April 11, 2022. The 110th anniversary of the death of Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna, Duchess of Württemberg (1912), daughter of Grand Prince Konstantin Nikolaevich and Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna (née Princess of Saxe-Altenburg), spouse of Duke Wilhelm Eugen August Georg of Württemberg
April 21, 2022. The 30th anniversary of the death of the Head of the Imperial House of Russia, Grand Duke (de jure Emperor) Vladimir Kirillovich (1992), son of Emperor-in-Exile Kirill I Vladimirovich and Empress-in-Exile Victoria Feodorovna (née Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, and of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha)
April 21, 2022. The 30th anniversary of the accession to the rights and duties of Head of the Imperial House of Russia (de jure Empress) by Maria I Vladimirovna, daughter of Grand Duke (de jure Emperor) Vladimir Kirillovich and Grand Duchess (de jure Empress) Leonida Georgievna (née Princess Bagration-Mukhrani and Georgia) (1992)
April 23, 2022. The 175th anniversary of the birth of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich (1847), son of Emperor Alexander II the Tsar-Liberator and Empress Maria Alexandrovna (née Princess of Hesse and the Rhine)
April 28, 2022. The 890th anniversary of the death Grand Prince St. Mstislav I Vladimirovich (1132), son of Grand Prince St. Vladimir Monomakh and Grand Princess Gytha, daughter of Harold Godwyinson, King of England.
And the 810th anniversary of the death of Grand Prince St. Vsevolod III Iurievich the Big Nest (1212), son of Grand Prince Iurii I Dolgorukii and Grand Princess Helene (of the Byzantine House of Komnenus)
May 5, 2022. The 395th anniversary of the birth of Tsarevna Irina Mikhailovna (1627), daughter of Tsar Mikhail I Feodorovich and Tsaritsa Evdokia Lukianovna (née Streshneva)
May 10, 2022. The 340th anniversary of the death of Tsar Feodor III Alekseevich (1682), son of Tsar Aleksei I Mikhailovich and Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna (née Miloslavskaya)
May 12, 2022. The 165th anniversary of the birth of the martyr Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich (1857), son of Emperor Alexander II the Tsar-Liberator and Empress Maria Alexandrovna (née Princess of Hesse and the Rhine)
May 18, 2022. The 40th anniversary of the birth of H.S.H. Princess Victoria Romanovna Romanoff (née Bettarini), spouse of H.I.H. The Heir, Tsesarevich, and Grand Duke George of Russia (1982), daughter of His Excellency Ambassador Robert Bettarini and Carla Virginia Bettarini (née Cacciatore)
May 19, 2022. The 295th anniversary of the death of Empress Catherine I (1727), wife of Emperor Peter I the Great (née Skavronskaya), then later Empress
May 26, 2022. The 330th anniversary of the death of Tsarevich Alexander Petrovich (1692), son of Tsar Peter I the Great and Tsaritsa Evdokia Feodorovna (née Lopukhina)
June 7, 2022. The 150th anniversary of the birth of the Holy Royal Passion-Bearer Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (née Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt) (1872), spouse of the Holy Royal Passion-Bearer Emperor Nicholas II, and daughter of Grand Duke Ludwig IV of Hesse-Darmstadt and Grand Duchess Alice (née Princess of Great Britain and Ireland)
June 10, 2022. The 360th anniversary of the birth of Tsarevna Feodosia Alekseevna (1662), daughter of Tsar Aleksei I Mikhailovich and Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna (née Miloslavskaya)
June 11, 2022. The 125th anniversary of the birth of the Holy Royal Passion-Bearer Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna (1897), daughter of the Holy Royal Passion-Bearer Emperor Nicholas II and Holy Royal Passion-Bearer Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (née Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt)
June 12, 2022. The 350th anniversary of the birth of Emperor Peter I the Great (1672), son of Tsar Aleksei I Mikhailovich and Tsaritsa Natalia Kirillovna (née Naryshkina)
June 13, 2022. The 465th anniversary of the birth of Tsar St. Feodor I Ivanovich (1557), son of Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible and Tsaritsa Anastasia Romanovna (née Zakharina-Iurieva)
June 14, 2022. The 140th anniversary of the birth of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna (1882), daughter of Emperor Alexander III and Empress Maria Feodorovna (née Princess of Denmark)
July 7, 2022. The 115th anniversary of the birth of Prince of the Imperial Blood Vasilii Alexandrovich (1907), son of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna
July 14, 2022. The 160th anniversary of the birth of Grand Duke Viacheslav Konstantinovich (1862), son of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich and Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna (née Princess of Saxe-Altenburg)
July 16, 2022. The 135th anniversary of the birth of Prince of the Imperial Blood (from 1939, Grand Duke) Gabriel Konstantinovich (1887), son of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich and Grand Duchess Elisabeth Mavrikievna (née Princess of Saxe-Altenburg)
July 19, 2022. The 260th anniversary of the martyrdom of Emperor Peter III Feodorovich (1762), son of Tsarevna Anna Petrovna and Duke Karl-Friedrich of Holstein-Gottorp
July 24, 2022. The 230th anniversary of the birth of Grand Duchess Olga Pavlovna (1792), daughter of Emperor Paul I and Empress Maria Feodorovna (née Princess of Württemberg)
August 1, 2022. The 315th anniversary of the death of Tsarevna Marfa Alekskeevna (the nun Margarita) (1707), daughter of Tsar Aleksei I Mikhailovich and Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna (née Miloslavskaya).
August 8, 2022. The 100th anniversary of the publication by Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of the Address “To the Russian People,” declaring his assumption of the title Curator of the Imperial Throne, in accordance with Fundamental Laws, and of the Address “To the Russian Army,” in which he called for the unification of all “White” and “Red” forces to oppose the godless regime then in power in Russia (1922)
(See the article, in Russian, “Stanovlenie dinastii Romanovykh v izgnanii [The Establishment of the Romanoff Dynasty in Exile],” in Istoricheskii vestnik, nos. 3 and 6 (2013), at http://imperialhouse.ru/rus/monograph/articles/3977.html).
August 29, 2022. The 195th anniversary of the birth of Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1827), daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich and Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna (née Princess of Württemberg), spouse of Duke Georg-August of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
August 30, 2022. The 105th anniversary of the birth of the Head of the Imperial House of Russia, Grand Duke (de jure Emperor) Vladimir Kirillovich (1917), son of Emperor-in-Exile Kirill I Vladimirovich and Empress-in-Exile Victoria Feodorovna (née Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, and of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha)
August 31, 2022. The 180th anniversary of the birth of Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna (1842), daughter of Emperor Alexander II the Tsar-Liberator and Empress Maria Alexandrovna (née Princess of Hesse and the Rhine) (whose parents had the titles Tsesarevich and Tsesarevna at the time of their daughter’s birth)
September 8, 2022. The 370th anniversary of the birth of Tsarevna Marfa Alekseevna, the nun Margarita (1652), the daughter of Tsar Aleksei I Mikhailovich and Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna (née Miloslavskaya)
September 8, 2022. The 55th anniversary of the death of Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna, Princess (de jure Empress and Queen) of Germany and Prussia (1967), daughter of Emperor-in-Exile Kirill I Vladimirovich and Empress-in-Exile Victoria Feodorovna (née Princess of Great Britain and Ireland and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha), spouse of the Head of the German Imperial and Prussian Royal House Prince (de jure Emperor and King) Louis-Ferdinand
September 12, 2022. The 200th anniversary of the birth of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, Queen of Württemberg (1822), daughter of Emperor Nicholas I and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (née Princess of Prussia), spouse of King Charles I of Württemberg
September 22, 2022. The 195th anniversary of the birth of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich (1827), son of Emperor Nicholas I and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (née Princess of Prussia)
September 25, 2022. The 410th anniversary of the death of Tsar Vasilii IV Ivanovich Shuiskii, the monk Varlaam (1612), son of the boyar Prince Ivan Andreevich Shuiskii and Princess Anna Fedorovna (the nun Anna)
September 29, 2022. The 65th anniversary of the death of the Head of the Royal House of Georgia, Prince (de jure King) George Alexandrovich Bagration-Mukhrani of Georgia (1957), the grandfather of the Head of the Russian Imperial House, Grand Duchess Maria of Russia, and son of the martyred Prince Alexander Iraklievich Bagration-Mukhrani and Princess Maria Dimitrievna (née Golovacheva)
September 30, 2022. The 365th anniversary of the birth of Tsarevna Sophia Alekseevna, the nun Susanna (1657), daughter of Tsar Aleksei I Mikhailovich and Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna (née Miloslavskaya)
October 4, 2022. The 390th anniversary of the birth of Tsarevna Marfa Mikhailovna (1632), daughter of Tsar Mikhail I Feodorovich and Tsaritsa Evdokia Lukianovna (née Streshneva)
October 13, 2022. The 775th anniversary of the death of Grand Prince St. Yaroslav II Vsevolodovich (1247), son of Grand Prince St. Vsevolod III Iurievich the Big Nest and Grand Princess St. Maria (née Princess of Moravia, or, according to some sources, Princess of Ossetia)
October 16, 2022. The 60th anniversary of the death of Princess of the Imperial Blood Elena Petrovna (1962), spouse of the Holy New Martyr Prince of the Imperial Blood Ioann Konstantinovich, and daughter of King Peter I of Serbia and Princess Zorka of Serbia (née Princess of Montenegro)
October 26, 2022. The 190th anniversary of the birth of Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich (1832), son of Emperor Nicholas I and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (née Princess of Prussia)
October 31, 2022. The 130th anniversary of the death of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, Queen of Württemberg (1892), daughter of Emperor Nicholas I and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (née Princess of Prussia), and spouse of King Charles I of Württemberg
November 2, 2022. The 875th anniversary of the martyrdom of Grand Prince St. Igor II Olgovich, the monk Gabriel (1147), son of the Prince Oleg Sviatoslavich of Chernigov and his spouse, the daughter of the Polovtsian Khan Osuluk.
November 9, 2022. The 330th anniversary of the death of Tsarevna Anna Mikhailovna, the nun Anfisa (1692), daughter of Tsar Mikhail I Feodorovich and Tsaritsa Evdokia Lukianovna (née Streshneva)
November 24, 2022. The 120th anniversary of the birth of Prince of the Imperial Blood Rostislav Alexandrovich (1902), son of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna
November 25, 2022. The 145th anniversary of the birth of Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich (1877), son of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna (née Princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin)
November 27, 2022. The 175th anniversary of the birth of Empress Maria Feodorovna (1847), spouse of Emperor Alexander III, and daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and Queen Louise (née Princess of Hesse-Cassel)
November 28, 2022. The 130th anniversary of the birth of Prince of the Imperial Blood Oleg Konstantinovich (1892), son of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich and Grand Duchess Elisabeth Mavrikievna (née Princess of Saxe-Altenburg)
December 11, 2022. The 345th anniversary of the death of Tsarevna Feodora Alekseevna (1677), daughter of Tsar Aleksei I Mikhailovich and Tsaritsa Natalia Kirillovna (née Naryshkina)
December 22, 2022. The 265th anniversary of the birth of Grand Princess Anna Petrovna (1757), daughter of Emperor Peter III and Empress Catherine II the Great (née Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst) (at the time of her birth, her parents were titled Grand Duke and Grand Duchess)
December 24, 2022. The 125th anniversary of the birth of Prince of the Imperial Blood Feodor Alexandrovich (1897), son of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna.
December 25, 2022. The 245th anniversary of the birth of Emperor Alexander I (1777), son of Emperor Paul I and Empress Maria Feodorovna (née Princess of Württemburg) (at the time of his birth, his parents were titled Grand Duke and Grand Duchess)
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The Head of the Russian Imperial House, H.I.H. The Grand Duchess Maria of Russia, H.I.H. The Heir, Tsesarevich and Grand Duke George of Russia, and his spouse, H.S.H. Princess Victoria Romanovna, urge all their countrymen to pray for the repose of the souls of their deceased relatives, and call upon all who cherish the memory of Russia’s pious Emperors and Empresses, Grand Princes and Grand Princesses, Grand Dukes and Grand Duchesses, and Princes and Princes of the Imperial Blood, to mark the anniversaries of their births and deaths with good works for the benefit of the needy.
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For the Commemoration of Russia’s Rulers, see:
http://imperialhouse.ru/rus/imperialhouse/orthodox/prayer/pominovenie-pochivshikh-gosudarej.html