| 41. | Like parents of all the 17th century Tsarinas, they did not belong to the highest aristocracy.
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| 42. | The new Tsarina outraged many Russians by refusing to convert from Catholicism to the Russian Orthodox faith.
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| 43. | The royals who held genealogical claims to the throne overtly devised plots to replace the new Tsarina.
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| 44. | George Terter seized the throne and Kira Maria was proclaimed the new " tsarina ".
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| 45. | Both Empress Catherine and Tsarina Praskovia Saltykova asked Peter for mercy on her account but without result.
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| 46. | In Imperial Russia, a Grand Duke was a son or patrilineal grandson of the Tsar or Tsarina.
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| 47. | The Tsarina and Grigori Rasputin had the opinion it was not necessary for St�rmer to change his name.
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| 48. | The investigator concluded that she was too naive and unintelligent to have had any influence over the Tsarina.
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| 49. | Marina soon left to join her husband in Moscow, where she was crowned a Tsarina in May.
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| 50. | Apraksin was a well-connected diplomat in the tsarina's court with little true military experience.
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