Tsarevich

Tsarevich (Russian Царевич, " Tsarevich ", " Emperor's son ") was the title of nobility of the male descendants of the Russian Tsar. He has been since the adoption of the Czar title by Ivan the Terrible in 1547 to the abdication of Kaiser Nicholas II used 1917.

With the death of the conspiracy against his father, Peter the Great imprisoned Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich and heir to the throne in 1718, this title was temporarily out of use. Male descendants or relatives of the emperor or the empress were instead in the 18th century with the title " Grand Duke " ( Veliky Knyaz ) refers.

Younger male relatives of the tsar dynasty wore the other hand, since the 18th century continue the title of " Grand Duke ". Emperor Alexander III. (reigned 1881-1894 ) was limited in the face of meanwhile significantly increased dynasty in a reform of the Family Code of the Romanovs the Grand Duke titles on physical sons and grandsons of the emperor, while a more distant male relatives of the dynasty since then only the title of " prince " ( "Your Highness " / could lead Wyssotschestwo ). Today Romanovs are all just prince, with two exceptions: the Franz Wilhelm of Prussia married gewesenen daughter Maria Vladimirovna ( b. 1953 ) of the Grand Duke and heir apparent Vladimir Kyrillowitsch Romanov -Holstein -Gottorp († 1992) and her son Georgi Mikhailovich Romanov of Prussia (* 1981).

The female counterpart is called Tsarevna (Russian Царевна, " Tsarevna ").