Show ANCESTRY OP OF THE CZAR first romanoff mounted ru euln throne in 1613 aa in the middle of the fourteenth cen on tury kobyla a chieftain of lithuania was driven from his own country for holding last tast to paganism and refus log ing christianity fleeing to Mua 1 s envy covy hie his abilities as a warrior were e we wel corned coined by the czar ivan I 1 so promie promis 1 ing a career c opened before him that kobyla renounced the heathen wor ship hip IR tor for which ch ho he had ha a a buffered u M ered exile and waa as baptized into the chur church un cour der tho the name of andre in li course ot of events his family became kno known n a 8 the Roma noma and in 1547 7 ivan IV took anastasia romanoff to wife the tile ro in thus became beca in e a bre party in the court of the czar with the death of ban hau tho the 70 taft rt bles son feodor and the ussa selna tion of the rightful successor Diml Dlin trl itri in id 1591 the house of rurik came to an end after reigning over russia for yeara years anarchy then rent russia asunder poles swedes and muscovite nobles for fol and success ively usurped the throne dy by virtue of hia his relationship with the late czar feodor romanoff waa was one of the claimants hid his ability and wisdom so enhanced his claims that hia big rival boris Godo Go donoff nott compelled him to become a priest and so debarred him from the throne profiting by theae these internecine struggles the poles seized mosco in despair the russians were about to ac capt the king of poland s sovereignty when a butcher of Nov gorod raised the people in a patriotic effort which drove out the invaders the nobles clergy and burgesses were summoned to moscow to elect a czar the assem bly met in lent 1613 after stormy debates michael romanoff was elected klag king ho ile was a youth of 17 and the sole bearon of bla his election baj that he was the son of his father feodor thus began tho the reign of the Roma |