Sources of Fundamental Laws

Confirmation Charter of the Great All-Russian Church Council and Assembly of the Land of 1613, Concerning the Ascension to the Throne of the House of Romanoff

Decree on the Succession to the All-Russian Imperial Throne, Confirmed on April 5, 1797 by Emperor Paul I on the Day of His Holy Coronation and Placed by Him for Safe Keeping on the Altar of the Cathedral of the Assumption, January 4, 1788

Reply of Emperor Alexander I to Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich, Consenting to the latter’s Abdication of his Rights to the Succession, 2 February 1822.

Letter of Tsesarevich and Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich to Emperor Alexander I regarding the Grand Duke’s Abdication of his Right of Succession to the Throne.

Excerpt from the Manifesto of the Emperor Alexander I of 20 March 1820 on the Dissolution of the Marriage of the Tsesarevich and Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich with the Grand Duchess Anna Feodorovna, and on a Supplemental Provision to the Statute on the

Manifesto of Emperor Alexander I, Confirming the Abdication of Tsesarevich and Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich and Designating Grand Duke Nicholas Pavlovich as Heir, 16 August 1823

Letter of Tsesarevich and Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich to Emperor Nicholas I, Affirming His Abdication of Rights to the Succession, 26 November 1825.

Letter of Tsesarevich and Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich to the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna Confirming His Abdication of Rights to the Succession to the Throne, 26 November 1825

Manifesto on the Ascension to the Throne of Emperor Nicholas I, 12 December 1825

From the Archives of the Minsk Ecclesiastical Consistory: The Celebration of the Birth of Grand Duke Kirill Wladimirovich

From the Manifesto of Emperor Alexander II on the Marriage of Grand Duke Wladimir Alexandrovich and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, 16 August 1874.

Manifesto of Emperor Alexander II Announcing the Birth of Grand Duke Andrei Wladimirovich, 2 May 1879

Decree of Emperor Nicholas II Concerning the Recognition of the Wedding of Grand Duke Kirill Wladimirovich and Granting to His Wife and Descendants Those Rights Belonging to Members of the Russian Imperial House, 15 July 1907.

Decree of Emperor Alexander III, which was attached to the New Statute on the Imperial Family, Confirmed on 2 July 1886.

Manifesto of Emperor Nicholas II on Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna’s Conversion to the Orthodox Faith, 10 April 1908.

Letter of Emperor Kirill I to the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna concerning His Adoption of the Imperial Title, September, 1924.

Decree of Emperor Nicholas II on Princess Tatiana Konstantinovna’s Renunciation of Her Right of Succession to the Throne, 24 August 1911.

Manifesto on the Assumption by the Grand Duke Kirill Wladimirovich, Curator of the Imperial Russian Throne, of the Title of Emperor of All the Russias, 31 August/13 September 1924.

Announcement of Emperor Kirill I concerning the Published Letters of the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna and of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, Commenting on the Adoption by Kirill of the Title of Emperor, 12/25 October 1924

Manifesto of Emperor Kirill I on the Majority of the Heir, Tsesarevich, and Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich, 17/30 August 1933.

Decree of Emperor Kirill I on Titles for the Morganatic Wives of Members of the Imperial House and their Posterity, 15/28 July 1935.

A Declaration by the Senior Members of the Imperial House of Russia on the Assumption by Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich of the Rights and Duties of Emperor of All the Russias, 11/24 October 1938.

An Announcement by the Office of the Head of the Russian Imperial House on the Decision by the Head of the Russian Imperial House, Wladimir Kirillovich, to Retain the Title of Grand Duke, 18/31 October 1938.

Decree of the Head of the Russian Imperial House, H.I.H. Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich, on the Recognition of the Royal Rank of the House of Bagration, 22 November/5 December 1946.

Manifesto of the Head of the Russian Imperial House, Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich, on the death of Emperor Kirill I and on His Assumption of the Rights and Duties of Emperors of All the Russias, 31 October 1938.

Decree of the Head of the Russian Imperial House, H.I.H. Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich, concerning His Marriage to H.R.H. Princess Leonida Georgievna, the Daughter of the Head of the Georgian Royal House, H.R.H. Prince George Alexandrovich Bagration of

Decree of the Head of the Russian Imperial House, H.I.H. Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich, to the Head of the His Imperial Highness’s Chancellery Concerning the Entry of the Name of the Newborn Grand Duchess Maria Wladimirovna into the Genealogical Book of

Decree of the Head of the Russian Imperial House, H.I.H. Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich, on the Birth of His Most August Daughter, H.I.H. Grand Duchess Maria Wladimirovna, 10/23 December 1953.

Page in the Genealogical Book of the Russian Imperial Family Containing the Entry for the Birth and Baptism of Grand Duchess Maria Wladimirovna, 22 January/4 February 1954.

Message of the Head of the Russian Imperial House, H.I.H. Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich, to the Peoples of Russia in Connection with H.I.H. Grand Duchess Maria Wladimirovna’s Legal Majority, 10/23 December 1969.

Decree concerning the Curatorship of the Imperial Throne of All the Russias in the Event of the Death of the Head of the Russian Imperial House, H.I.H. Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich, 10/23 December 1969.

An Announcement from the Chancellery of the Head of the Imperial House of Russia on the Dynastic Oath taken by H.I.H. Grand Duchess Maria Wladimirovna on the Occasion of her having reached Her Majority, 6/19 January 1970.

An Announcement of the Head of the Russian Imperial House, H.I.H. Grand Prince Wladimir Kirillovich, on the Marriage of H.I.H. Grand Duchess Maria Wladimirovna with H.R.H. Prince Franz-Wilhelm of Prussia (in Holy Orthodox Baptism, H.I.H. Grand Duke Mikhai

Message of H.I.H. Grand Duchess Maria Wladimirovna to Her Countrymen in Russia and Abroad in Connection with Her Marriage, 10/23 September 1976.

Paschal Message to the Russian people from the Head of the Russian Imperial House, H.I.H. Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich, Containing an Announcement on the Birth of H.I.H. Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich, 13/26 April 1981.

Decree of the Head of the Russian Imperial House, H.I.H. Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich, on His Permission for the Marriage of H.I.H. Grand Duchess Maria Wladimirovna and H.R.H. Prince Franz-Wilhelm of Prussia (who, in Holy Orthodox Baptism, is named Mik

An Announcement of the Head of the Russian Imperial House, H.I.H. Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich, on the Death of H.H. Vasilii Alexandrovich, Prince of the Imperial Blood, and, in Connection with His Passing, the Resulting Direct Transference of the Righ

Paschal Message of the Head of the Russian Imperial House, H.I.H. Grand Duchess Maria Wladimirovna, to all the Russian People on the Death of Her Most August Father, the Head of the Russian Imperial House, H.I.H. Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich, and Her A

An Announcement to the Russian People from the Head of the Russian Imperial House, H.I.H. Grand Duchess Maria Wladimirovna, on the Dynastic Oath taken by H.I.H. the Heir, Tsesarevich, and Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich in Jerusalem, 27 March/9 April 1998

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