Non-Russian Russians. The History of Service to Russia. Foreign Representatives of the Romanov Family

Being a representative of the royal family is a huge responsibility. It can be said without any exaggeration that the Romanovs were great workers. A keen sense of duty was common to almost all Romanovs. Each of them knew that high birth not only guarantees them material wealth but also imposes serious obligations.
Among the biographies of the members of this family, there are not stories of frivolous spendthrifts, but rather histories of service to the country - in public office, on battlefields, in the field of charity... It is precisely about the Romanovs' service to Russia, service despite their own passions, that this book tells.
It begins not with the founder of the dynasty, Mikhail Fyodorovich, but with his grandson Peter I. This approach is explained by the specifics of the task set by the author. It is not about revealing the political and private secrets of the family. The secrets of the Romanovs will be considered inasmuch as they will serve the main intention of the book, which aims to debunk the common myth of the alien nature of the Royal House to the country it ruled. At the core of this myth are speculations about the predominance of foreign blood in the representatives of the ruling dynasty over Russian blood.