The newly awakened patriotism turned instinctively toward that, as the highest expression of their hopes; and Mikhail Romanoff, a youth of 16, was elected Tsar.
It was in 1547 that Anastasia, of the House of Romanoff, had married Ivan IV.

At about the same time her brother was married to a Princess of Suzdal, a descendant of the brother of Alexander Nevski.

This Princess was the grandmother of Mikhail Romanoff, and the source from which has sprung the present ruling house in Russia..