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Video: Who are the founder of Russia Rurik Barack Obama, Princess Diana and other famous personalities of our time
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It is known that the last monarchs from among the Rurikovichs were Tsars Fedor I Ioannovich and Vasily Shuisky. Further, the family of the first chronicle prince of ancient Russia was interrupted, but this applies only to the straight line. Rurik had many children, and calculations show that any person of the 9th century, whose family was not forcibly interrupted, today you can find at least 300 thousand descendants. Moreover, due to the practice widespread among ancient Russian rulers of giving sisters and daughters in marriage to foreign kings, traces of the Rurikids can be found today in different countries.
In our country
In Russia, there are several hundred genera originating from the legendary prince. Most of them are ancient noble families: Gagarins, Obolensky, Volkonsky, Dashkovs, Baryatinsky, etc. If at the beginning of the 20th century the Russian aristocracy had not undergone total destruction, there would be much more Rurik among us. However, you can find them now. For example, the famous TV presenter and politician Pyotr Olegovich Tolstoy is a representative of the senior county branch of the Tolstoy noble family, and therefore is not only the great-great-grandson of Lev Nikolaevich, but also an undoubted descendant of Rurik.
Another famous Rurikovich was Andrei Petrovich Gagarin. The great Russian physicist, an expert in the field of quantum electronics and physical optics, came from the family of the Gagarin princes and headed the St. Petersburg Provincial Noble Assembly. For many years he led not only scientific, but also educational activities.
Rurikovich in Europe
Thanks to the dynastic marriage, the youngest daughter of Yaroslav the Wise, Anna Yaroslavna, became Queen of France. So among the French nobility in the XI century, the genes of the first Russian prince also appeared. On this line, such famous Rurikovichs as Cardinal Richelieu, German Chancellor Bismarck, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and even Princess Diana (Spencer) remained in history. It turns out that even the heirs of the English crown are also Rurik.
Another famous descendant of the legendary ancient Russian prince is the English actor Benedict Cumberbatch. He derives his ancestry from Richard III Plantagenet, who, in turn, was the great-grandson of Edward III and Isabella of France from the Capetian dynasty, the direct successor of the family of Henry I and Anna Yaroslavna. However, this was not the only "way" of spreading the descendants of Rurik among the European aristocracy. Another Russian princess, Maria Dobronega, daughter of St. Vladimir, became the wife of the Polish prince Casimir the Restorer, and the Piast dynasty was extremely numerous and related to the rulers of many countries.
Descendants of Russian princes overseas
On the other side of the Atlantic, you can also find the famous Rurikovichs. The most unexpected example in this case is the first African American to serve as president of the United States. Barack Obama is a mulatto, his father is Kenyan, and his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, is a distant descendant of the Scottish king William I, the great-great-grandson of the same Anna Yaroslavna.
In fact, America's political elite is rather closed, so it is not surprising that among Stanley's distant relatives there were relatives of the President of the Confederation Jefferson Davis and several US presidents: James Madison, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush. Accordingly, all these politicians may also have Rurik's genes. This data comes from research by the Historical Genealogical Society of New England.
As you know, questions of blood are the most confusing in the world. Not everyone knows that Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain is related to Nicholas II, and Prince William is closer to Nicholas I
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