Romanow-Holstein-Gottorp After today, I don't think my life will be the same. Surfing through the internet, I have been recommended by YouTube a video about Russian history from the 18 century till the beginning of the 20 century. There was said that all Russians emperors (Russia was an empire then) were ethnic Germans during that period. To be absolutely clear - each member of the imperial family from this point of time had both German mother and German father. My first thought was it couldn't be the truth! Of course, I remembered something from the history school lessons namely Russia had foreigners on the throne... but not all of them. Most of the time nowadays we go to Wikipedia for checking information. So did I. I looked through pages of every emperor and was amazed. The information I came across was fully true. However, this isn't the only information that shocked me. In short, Britain's queen also has strong German roots and nearly all monarchs of big countries were relatives. I was reading these fascinating entries for about 2 or 3 hours and that time really changed me.