Editing House of Romanov (section)

==Surname usage==
Legally, it remains unclear whether any ''[[ukase]]'' ever abolished the surname of Michael Romanov (or of his subsequent male-line descendants) after his accession to the Russian throne in 1613, although by tradition members of reigning dynasties seldom use surnames, being known instead by dynastic titles ("Tsarevich Ivan Alexeevich", "Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich", etc.). From {{OldStyleDateDY|January|1762|December 1761}}, the monarchs of the [[Russian Empire]] claimed the throne as relatives of [[Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia]] (1708–1728), who had married [[Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp]]. Thus they were no longer Romanovs by [[patrilineality|patrilineage]], belonging instead to the Holstein-Gottorp [[cadet branch]] of the German [[House of Oldenburg]] that reigned in Denmark. The 1944 edition of the ''[[Almanach de Gotha]]'' records the name of Russia's ruling dynasty from the time of Peter&nbsp;III (reigned 1761–1762) as "Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov".<ref name="gotha">{{cite book | title= Almanach de Gotha | publisher=[[Justus Perthes]] | year=1944 | location=Gotha, Germany | pages=103–106| title-link=Almanach de Gotha }}</ref> However, the terms "Romanov" and "House of Romanov" often occurred in official references to the Russian imperial family. The coat-of-arms of the Romanov [[boyar]]s was included in legislation on the imperial dynasty,<ref>
Compare {{ill|Romanov coat-of-arms|ru|Герб Романовых}}.
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and in a [[Romanov Tercentenary|1913 jubilee]], Russia officially celebrated the "300th Anniversary of the Romanovs' rule".<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.king-family.ru/romanovi/familiya.php|title= Origins of Romanov surname. Russian royalists site|access-date= 30 November 2016|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://archive.today/20130706085235/http://www.king-family.ru/romanovi/familiya.php|archive-date= 6 July 2013}}</ref>

After the [[February Revolution]] of 1917, a special decree of the [[Provisional Government of Russia]] granted all members of the imperial family the surname "Romanov".{{citation needed|date= May 2013}} The only exceptions, the [[morganatic marriage|morganatic]] descendants of the [[Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia|Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich]] (1891–1942), took (in exile) the surname [[:ru:Ильинские|Ilyinsky]].<ref name="gotha"/><ref>
{{cite web| url = http://www.hrono.ru/proekty/romanov/kostroma-romanovskie_chtenija-1.zip| title = Romanovs lectures. The history of the Russian state and the Romanov dynasty: current problems in the study. Kostroma. 29–30 May 2008.}}
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