The father of the family, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, was a prosperous American businessman and political figure. The children did not let their father down and went far ahead on the career ladder. We will follow the history of the Kennedy family in this news.

1. The Kennedy family (from left to right) Joseph Kennedy, his wife Rose and their children Patricia, John, Jean, Eunice, Robert, Kathleen, Edward, Rosemary and Joseph Jr. The photo was taken in 1937 in Washington.

2. Joseph Patrick Kennedy was a prosperous American businessman and political figure. Joseph Kennedy served as United States Ambassador to Great Britain from 1938 to 1940, where he was awarded the title "Sir".

3. John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouwer Kennedy at their wedding in Newport, Rhode Island, 1953.

4. February 1958, Washington County: Three brothers. Future American President John F. Kennedy poses with his brothers Edward and Robert.

5. John, Edward and Robert Kennedy in Hyanisport, Massachusetts. The photo was taken in July 1960.

7. President John F. Kennedy is on the phone with astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth. The photo was taken on February 20, 1962.

8. 1963: in the White House. Senator Edward Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and President John F. Kennedy.

9. July 26, 1963 US President John F. Kennedy reads his address to the people of West Berlin. Twenty-two months earlier, East Germany had erected the Berlin Wall. To further inspire the crowd, Kennedy even recited the poem "I am a Berliner" in German.

10 November 22, 1963 President John F. Kennedy takes on Jackie. On this day, he was mortally wounded by a hitman's bullet during his trip to Dallas, Texas.

11. November 24, 1963 Jack Ruby shoots Lee Garvey Oswald at the Dallas police station.

12. November 25, 1963 Three-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr. says goodbye to his father's coffin. The funeral took place in Washington. The widowed Jacqueline and her daughter Caroline are accompanied by the President's younger brothers Edward and Robert.

13. July 9, 1964 Senator Edward Kennedy tries to smile, waving his bandaged hand. He is taken away in an ambulance from the crash site of a private jet.

14. Developing a common tactic: Senators Edward and Robert Kennedy sit side by side during a session of the subcommittee on labor under the US Parliament. The photo was taken in Washington DC in 1967.

15. June 5, 1968 Robert Kennedy falls dead to the floor at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where he was shot.

16. June 5, 1968 Sirhan Sirhan, who shot Kennedy, is arrested at the scene of the crime.

17. June 8, 1968 The widow of the murdered Ethel Kennedy, accompanied by the brother of the late Senator Edward Kennedy, during a funeral ceremony at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.

18. October 18, 1968 Millionaire and shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis accompanies Jackie Kennedy. Two days after this photo was taken, the couple had a lavish wedding on Aristotle's private island of Skorpios.

19. It is not known when this photo was taken, but we see Mary Kopechne, who died when Senator Edward Kennedy's car drove off a bridge into a river on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts.

20. July 19, 1969 Edward Kennedy's car being pulled out of the water. Mary Kopechne's body was found on the seat next to the driver's seat.

21. July 19, 1969 A diver dives towards a car belonging to Senator Edward Kennedy during a rescue operation. The senator himself was seriously injured in the accident, and his passenger died.

22. July 25, 1969 Senator Edward Kennedy leaves the courthouse in Edgarton, Massachusetts, accompanied by the military. Edward was charged with leaving a person in danger - Mary Kopechne died in a car accident. Edward Kennedy was driving.

23. July 20, 1999. The Kennedy family flew the US national flag to half-mast at their home in Massachusetts in mourning for John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Caroline Bissette Kennedy and her sister Lauren Bissett, who died in a private jet crash over the Atlantic Ocean. At the helm was John Kennedy Jr.

24. November 7, 2006 Newly appointed Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger dances for joy with his mother-in-law Eunice Kennedy Shriver after he just learned that he beat Democrat rival Phil Angelides in the gubernatorial race.

25. August 29, 2009, Boston, Massachusetts. Former US President Bill Clinton expresses his condolences to Senator Edward Kennedy's widow Vicki Reggie Kennedy. And her son Edward Kennedy Jr. talks with current US President Barack Obama.

The Kennedy family was one of the strongest clans in America. Presidents, senators, prominent politicians - members of the clan could boast of an excellent career. But, alas, Kennedy's career did not go for the future. Family members died in car accidents, at the hands of murderers, under other unexpected circumstances. It was as if a curse had come over them. According to rumors, it was the head of the clan, Joe Kennedy, who insulted the old rebbe, who cast the spell. And since then, Kennedy did not know happiness.

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Rosemary Kennedy- lobotomy

Rosemary, daughter of Joe Kennedy and sister of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was born with serious mental problems. Since childhood, she lagged behind her peers in development. Rosemary spent her childhood in hospitals and boarding schools, and then was sent to a monastery. However, she behaved violently, and constantly ran away from the monastery. When she was 23, her father, Joe Kennedy, decided to resort to the last resort and allowed her daughter to have a lobotomy. However, the effect was negative: Rosemary lost the ability to move and speak. Gradually, the ability to stand on her feet returned to her, but her hands still remained inactive. Rosemary Kennedy lived out her days in strict isolation and died in 2005.

Joe Kennedy Jr.- exploded plane

Joseph Patrick Kennedy was the eldest son of Joe and Rose Kennedy, and the elder brother of the future president. In 1942, after dropping out of law school, he volunteered for the army, becoming a pilot in the navy. Alas, in 1944, during the execution of another mission, lightning hit Joe Kennedy's plane. The pilot is dead.

Kathleen Kennedy- plane crash

Kathleen Kennedy, the elder sister of President John F. Kennedy, from childhood dreamed of joining the family of British aristocrats. Shortly after her London debut, she met Billy Hartington, the future Duke of Devonshire. They got married, despite the opposition of the Kennedy family: after all, the groom was a Protestant, and they were Catholics. Alas, soon Hartington died, participating in the fighting in France. Immediately after that, Kathleen began an affair with the next aristocrat, Count Peter Fitzwilliam, who was married and was going to leave his family for Kathleen. However, the wedding never took place: when the couple flew from Paris to Cannes on Fitzwilliam's private plane, the plane crashed due to bad weather conditions. Kathleen and her fiancé are dead.

Patrick Bouvier Kennedy- died 2 days after premature birth

President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline had problems having children. In 1955, Jacqueline had a miscarriage, in 1956 she gave birth to a dead child. Two successful pregnancies followed. In 1963 she was pregnant for the third time. However, the pregnancy failed again. The boy, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, was born in August 1963, three weeks premature and died two days later from respiratory failure.

John Kennedy- murder

In November 1963, John F. Kennedy actively campaigned for the presidency, seeking reelection for a second term. But this did not happen. On Friday, November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas. The assassination of the president shocked all of America and subsequently became one of the most striking evidence of the existence of the "curse of the Kennedy clan."

Ted Kennedy- random rescue

Senator Ted Kennedy, younger son of Joe Kennedy and younger brother of the president, lived to a ripe old age. But the curse followed close behind him. In 1964, the private plane in which Ted was flying crashed. The pilot and assistant to Kennedy died, but he himself survived, although he spent many months in the hospital. And five years later, in 1969, Ted Kennedy's car fell off the bridge. His passenger died, but Ted himself managed to swim out. Looks like Ted Kennedy is one of the few family members who knows how to cheat death.

Robert Kennedy- murder

Robert Kennedy, John's brother, was the US Attorney General and the nation's youngest senator. In 1968, he announced his candidacy for the presidency. On June 5, 1968, he won a resounding victory in the California presidential primaries. However, he could only enjoy this for a few hours: on the same day, he was shot dead by a 22-year-old Palestinian Seran Serhan, who said that in this way he took revenge on Robert Kennedy for his public support of Israel.

Joseph P. Kennedy II- car accident

Joseph Patrick Kennedy, son of Robert and Jacqueline Kennedy, had a terrible accident in 1973. Oddly enough, he himself got out of it unharmed, but his passengers were badly injured. His brother David Kennedy was seriously injured, because of which he got hooked on painkillers and soon died, and passenger Pamela Berkley remained completely paralyzed for life. It is difficult to say how lucky Joseph himself was. Perhaps the thought that he had ruined the lives of two people, including his brother, with his clumsiness behind the wheel, became his worst curse.

Ted Kennedy Jr.- leg amputation

Ted Kennedy Jr., son of Edward, nephew of John and Robert Kennedy, developed osteosarcoma at the age of 12. There was almost no hope, and they agreed to subject the boy to experimental treatment with methotrexate. He became a guinea pig, on which doctors selected the correct dosage of the drug. Fortunately, Ted Jr. was lucky - he managed to survive, however, having lost one leg. Of course, he had to forget about the traditional career of a public politician for the Kennedy family, but he managed to become a good lawyer and even took part in political activities - but, of course, not as brightly and actively as his relatives.

David Kennedy- died of a drug overdose

David Anthony Kennedy was the fourth son of President Robert Kennedy. It was he who was in the car with Joseph Kennedy II when he had an accident. David was seriously injured, and doctors gave him drugs to numb the pain. Soon he could no longer do without them. After the hospital, he quickly switched from painkillers to heroin. In 1976 and 1978, doctors struggled to pump it out after overdoses. In 1985, another heroin overdose became fatal for David.

Michael LeMoyne Kennedy- death on the ski slope

Michael LeMoyne Kennedy was the sixth child of Robert Kennedy and the nephew of President John F. Kennedy. In December 1997, 39-year-old Michael went to the prestigious Aspren ski resort in Colorado. He did not expect that he would find his death here. On December 31, 1997, while skiing, LeMoyne ran into a tree at high speed. He was taken to the hospital, where he soon died from his injuries.

John F. Kennedy, Jr.- plane crash

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., a well-known journalist and lawyer, by 1999 was the only living child of President John F. Kennedy. On July 16, 1999, he took the wheel of his private jet, along with his wife Caroline and her sister, on their way to the wedding of his cousin Rory Kennedy. But the plane did not make it to its destination, crashing off Martha's Vineyard, on the Atlantic coast of Massachusetts. None of those on board survived.

Kara Kennedy- heart attack

Kara Ann Kennedy was the eldest daughter of Senator Ted Kennedy. In 2002, at the age of 42, she was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. Kara was preparing to die, but her father Ted Kennedy, who knew how to defeat the old woman with a scythe, found a surgeon who agreed to operate on Kara. He risked not in vain - the woman survived and even got rid of cancer. And yet, Kara died a few years later - in 2011, she died from an unexpected heart attack. This time, her father did not have time to come to her aid.

May 29 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the most famous American presidents, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He led the country for just over two years, but managed to be remembered for both brilliant victories and deafening failures. Kennedy became not only a model of a political leader, but also an icon of style. After the president's assassination, his relatives continue to influence American politics. traced the history of the legendary dynasty and its most stellar representative.

Potato Famine Refugees

It was the invisible Phytophthora infestans in 1845 that potato tubers all over Ireland began to rot right in the ground, depriving the peasants enslaved by the British of the only source of income. At first, the government tried to provide assistance to the victims, but the money ran out almost immediately.

Deprived of income from potatoes, English and Scottish landowners inflated the rental prices of their Irish land. The cold winter aggravated the situation: the hungry and freezing peasants were literally mowed down by epidemics of scurvy, typhus and dysentery. Tens of thousands of Irish people fled the country. Among those who left was and.

He got to American Boston, where he got a job as a cooper (barrel maker) - the work allowed him to maintain a tolerable standard of living.

clipped wings

Patrick's son already owned three saloons, but his grandson, Joseph, achieved impressive success: he actively invested in stocks, real estate, cinema and became fabulously rich. Rumor has it that he even supplied bootleggers with alcohol during the Prohibition years.

Joseph married the daughter of the mayor of Boston and met the president. This allowed him to enter big politics: Kennedy became the first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the US ambassador to the UK.

Everything seemed to be going well, but Joseph was summed up by his position during the Second World War. He opposed US intervention in the conflict and pushed for better relations with Nazi Germany. In addition, the ambassador extremely resented the British prime minister, tirelessly predicting defeat for the kingdom.

Photo: J. A. Hampton / Topical Press Agency / Getty Images

His diplomatic career was interrupted, his political reputation was undermined, but Joseph did not give up: the children - four boys and five girls - became his instruments of influence. From childhood, they were taught to stick to each other and remember that the family is above all.

Joseph encouraged the spirit of competition between the boys and hoped that the eldest son, Joe, would make a political career. But Joe, who served as a naval pilot, died in the war - they say that he took on increasingly difficult tasks precisely because of a childish desire to prove his superiority over his sailor brother. After the tragedy, Joseph decided that it was John who should become an influential politician.

After the war, using connections and money, the patriarch of the Kennedy family achieved wide coverage of John's military exploits: the story of how the sailors of the torpedo boat sunk by the Japanese escaped under his command was printed by the New Yorker magazine and sold 100,000 copies. Kennedy Jr. constantly appeared on TV, showed his family to voters, became a kind of star. “The Kennedy family forever blurred the line between politician and celebrity,” said writer Vincent Bzdek.

Joseph's calculation was justified: John F. Kennedy was elected to the House of Representatives, then to the Senate, in 1960 he defeated, which, against the background of a young and radiant Democrat, seemed to be an artifact of a bygone era, and finally took the Oval Office in the White House.

Legendary person

"The Greatest President", "Best Man Ever", "God, how we miss him!" - such inscriptions are most often found in the memorial book of the Sixth Floor Museum in the same building in Dallas, Texas, from which Lee Harvey Oswald shot at President Kennedy.

Kennedy was indeed the first in many ways: the first president born in the 20th century, the first young World War II veteran in the White House, the first Catholic president, the youngest head of state in history. He came to power with a promise to break with the stagnation of the previous eight years, which had passed under the sign of a military-glorious but passive Republican general.

Kennedy had had enough of failures: a failed invasion of Cuba, a lot of stalled bills in Congress. Meeting with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in 1961 in Vienna is still considered a model of national humiliation in the United States. “Worst event in my life. He just tore me, ”the president himself recalled.

Nevertheless, he was remembered not for failures and not even for indisputable successes, such as ending the Caribbean crisis, when the world risked plunging into the abyss of nuclear war. As The Atlantic writer Alan Brinkley writes, "Kennedy reminds us of a time when the possibilities of the nation seemed limitless, when the future seemed bright, when Americans believed they could solve difficult problems and do great things."

It was during his reign that he formulated: “The United States needs Great Purpose. We act as if our goal is to sit by the pools and contemplate our swollen bellies. The main thing is not that Great Purpose was correctly formulated, the main thing is that it exists and we go towards it.” This point of view was fully consistent with Kennedy's attitude: in 1961, in his famous speech, he announced the entry of the United States into the space race, the final point of which was to send an expedition to the moon.

It was under him that many of the Great Society laws were formulated, which put an end to segregation and allowed the United States to become a modern multicultural and multiethnic society. His sayings - such as "Don't ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" - quickly became winged.

From the previous owners of the White House, Kennedy differed even in appearance. His dressing skills have been admired since his first appearance on TV: John looked great in the Oval Office, on the golf course, and surrounded by family.

"The phrase 'style icon' is hackneyed, but in Kennedy's case, it's practically part of his name," wrote Mr. porter. “Try to find a bad photo of Kennedy. Come on, we'll wait. Well, see? None!" - admired the author.

No matter how paradoxical it may sound, but Kennedy was finally immortalized by his assassination in 1963: 60 percent of Americans still believe that the president fell victim not to a lone Lee Harvey Oswald, but to mysterious conspirators. Gossip about the causes of his death is still ongoing.

Endurance and the Curse of an Eternal Dynasty

After John's death, the attention of the nation was riveted on his younger brother Robert, who was Attorney General during the presidency of a relative. In 1968, he was on the verge of winning the primaries and had every chance to lead the country, but was killed by a Palestinian, Serhan Serhan Bishara, who was dissatisfied with the politician's pro-Israeli views.

After the death of naval pilot Joe and the assassinations of John and Robert, people started talking about the "Kennedy curse", which even has a separate page on the English Wikipedia: from 1944 to the present day, eight members of a famous family died an unnatural death.

In 1969, Ted Kennedy, the only surviving son of the patriarch of the Joseph family, fell into the abyss from a bridge while driving a car. He miraculously survived, and the girlfriend who was sitting next to him died. He was further pursued by failures: an unhappy marriage, amputation of the leg of one of his sons due to a cancerous tumor, alcoholism and drug addiction of another. Nevertheless, he spent 47 years as a senator, lived until 2009, and by the end of his life became a prominent voice of American progressivism.

The younger generation is also following in the footsteps of their ancestors: John F. Kennedy's 36-year-old great-nephew Joseph III was elected Congressman from Massachusetts, 24-year-old Jack Schlosberg, the great-grandson of the legendary president, also hints at a desire to enter politics. It is possible that in the future America will still hear the slogan "Kennedy for President!", and the representative of the famous dynasty will once again rise to the top of the American political Olympus.

Journalists called the chain of tragic deaths of members of an influential American clan "the Kennedy curse." Four of the nine children of Joseph Kennedy Sr., a businessman and politician, and his wife, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, died young. The couple's firstborn, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., was a military pilot who crashed in the sky during World War II. John F. Kennedy, who became the 35th President of the United States, was shot dead in Dallas on November 22, 1963, and many mysteries and hypotheses arose around the assassination attempt.

By the way, two of the four children of President Kennedy himself and his wife Jacqueline died immediately: the first-born girl was born stillborn, and the last baby lived for two days. John F. Kennedy Jr., the couple's third child, died at 39 in a plane crash over the Atlantic Ocean, and Caroline Kennedy, a lawyer and writer, is now the president's heiress.

Returning to the tragic fate of the first generation of Kennedys, one cannot fail to mention Rosemary Kennedy, the president's younger sister. At 23, the girl underwent a lobotomy and remained disabled, having spent her whole life in a psychiatric hospital. Kennedy's fifth child, Kathleen, died in a car accident at age 28.

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Attorney General and US Senator Robert Kennedy, like his older brother, was shot dead under unclear circumstances 5 years after John's death. After the assassination attempt, the politician was alive for almost a day. He died as a result of the shutdown of the apparatus that kept him alive.

Robert Kennedy's son David, the fourth of his 11 children, died of a cocaine overdose at age 28.

Onassis

The Greek Onassis clan, to which Kennedy's widow joined in 1968, is also called cursed (and the authorship of the curse is attributed to the opera diva Maria Callas, who was Onassis's mistress, but learned from the newspapers about his wedding to Jacqueline Kennedy).

Athena Livanos, the first wife of billionaire shipowner Aristotle Onassis, died at 45. According to the official version, from a heart attack, but close families were sure that the woman committed suicide, unable to withstand the blows of fate: Aristotle's betrayal and divorce from him, two subsequent unsuccessful marriages, and most importantly, the death of 25-year-old son Alexander in a plane crash in January 1973 of the year. The daughter of Aristotle and Athena Christina was found dead in 1988. As with her mother, the 37-year-old woman was diagnosed with a heart attack. However, Christina has a history of two unsuccessful suicide attempts, so many journalists are convinced that the woman was poisoned after all.

Aristotle and Jacqueline Kennedy had no children, and now the only heiress of the Onassis family is 31-year-old Athena Roussel.

Hemingway

Nobel Prize winner in Literature Ernest Hemingway committed suicide at 61 after years of battling depression, which became the bane of the Hemingway family. The writer's father, despite a happy marriage and warm relations with children, committed suicide. All three children of the Hemingway family also committed suicide: Ernest and his sister Ursula - due to depression, and the writer's older brother Lester shot himself when he learned that his legs would have to be amputated due to diabetes.

The writer's granddaughter Margot Hemingway, a model and actress, also suffered from clinical depression and poisoned herself at 42.

Gandhi

The first female prime minister in Indian history and the second in world history. Indira Gandhi was killed by her own Sikh bodyguards, who took revenge on her for suppressing the unrest of her fellow believers. Indira's eldest son Rajiv was also the victim of an assassination attempt. In 1991, it was blown up by a suicide bomber in response to the entry of Indian troops into Sri Lanka. Gandhi's youngest son Sanjay died in a plane crash while the politician was still alive. In India, there is a legend about the curse of the Gandhi family, which incurred the wrath of fate by violating the caste law. Both Indira and both of her sons entered into “forbidden” marriages: the prime minister married an Indian Parsi (descendants of immigrants from Iran), the youngest son married the daughter of a Sikh, and the eldest married an Italian.

Lee

Martial artist and cult actor Bruce Lee has died at 33 after taking a headache pill that caused brain swelling. The circumstances of the death of the artist were not fully studied: according to one source, the tablet contained a dose of aspirin and meprobamate that was incomparable for the body, but there were also versions that the death was set up by his envious people.

Before his death, Bruce Lee set about making the film Game of Death. He not only played the main role, but also acted as a screenwriter, producer and director of the project. Due to a sudden death, the work was never completed, then Robert Clause, who had previously worked with Lee on Enter the Dragon, sat in the director's chair. Robert almost completely rewrote the plot, in which the hero of Bruce Lee also met death. Filming from the funeral of the actor was also inserted into the picture.

The death of Bruce Lee's son on the set of The Crow on March 31, 1993 can also be called a coincidence of fatal circumstances. Work was underway on the final episodes, when the hero Brandon Lee was supposed to be killed by his sworn enemy Fanboy, played by Michael Massey. By a fatal accident, the pistol, from which Michael shot Brandon, got a plug, which, when fired with a blank cartridge, hit the actor's stomach and mortally wounded him.

The actor's mother sued the film company for negligence and won the case. No charges were brought against Michael Massey, but this did not save him from a protracted depression. Out of respect for the Lee family, the murder scene was re-shot with a stunt double.

Brando

The mother of actor Marlon Brando suffered from alcoholism and died because of her addiction. The first wife of the actor, actress Anna Kashfi, was also an alcoholic and a drug addict. Their son Christian Dewi Brando, also a drug addict, shot the boyfriend of his sister Tarita, daughter of Brando and his third wife. After serving 5 years in prison, he died of pneumonia at the age of 49. Tarita herself, who developed schizophrenia, hanged herself at the age of 25.

Gucci

The history of the Gucci dynasty has one high-profile and tragic death, which gave rise to the legend of the curse. 45-year-old Maurizio Gucci, grandson of the founder of the House of Guccio Gucci, was shot dead in March 1995 in the center of Milan. At first, suspicion fell on the Italian mafia, but the assassin was ordered by the deceived wife of the heir, Patricia Reggiani, whom Maurizio cheated on with a young girl. Patricia was afraid that by marrying his mistress, the traitor would leave her two daughters without an inheritance. Patricia was sentenced to 29 years in prison. At the end of the term, the woman was offered to "cut off the term" with community service, to which she replied: "I'd rather mess around in prison than work at large. I have never done it and never will." But the curse did not affect either the eccentric widow or her daughters, who received their inheritance, but the lawyers who took on Patricia's case during numerous appeals. Everyone who touched the documents began to suffer from rashes, headaches, and nausea. Skeptics claim that ordinary microbes that have bred on old papers are to blame, but superstitious lawyers are still afraid to study the Gucci case.

Romanovs

The curse of the royal family of the Romanovs is a historical legend associated with the murder of the three-year-old son of Marina Mnishek, the wife of two False Dmitrys (imposters who pretended to be the son of Ivan the Terrible Dmitry, who died in his youth). The son of False Dmitry II, Ivan Vorenok, was executed (in order to avoid his uprising in the future), when in 1613 Mikhail Romanov, the founder of the family, was elected to the kingdom. According to legend, Mnishek predicted that the murders in the family would continue until all the Romanovs died.

In fact, the men of the genus were not distinguished by strong health. Mikhail himself, who died at the age of 49, was weak and spent the last years of his life moving around in a chair. Of his 10 children, six died in infancy and childhood. His heir Alexei had 16 children. None of the 10 daughters of the tsar married (however, three girls died in childhood), and of the three sons who survived until the period of his reign, only Peter I survived in the end (his older brother Fedor Alekseevich died at 20, leaving no heir , and Ivan V, who inherited the throne at the same time as Peter, died at the age of 30). Peter I, as you know, arrested his son Alexei for treason, and he died in captivity. Thus, Peter himself left himself without an heir, marking the beginning of the era of palace coups. The 19th century in the history of the Romanov family began with regicide: the son of Catherine II, Pavel, was beaten to death by officers in his own palace. Although his heir Alexander I did not take part in the conspiracy, he knew about the plans to overthrow his father.

Alexander I died without leaving an heir (the emperor had only two daughters who died in childhood), and his brother, brother Nicholas I, took the throne, whose son, Emperor Alexander II, died at the hands of terrorists (at the site of the explosion in St. Petersburg, his son Alexander III built the Church of the Savior on Blood). Alexander III himself, like many men of the family, did not live to be 50 years old, and the fate of his son Nicholas II is known ...

A number of coincidences are also called part of the curse: the history of the family began with the coronation of Mikhail in the Ipatiev Monastery in Kostroma, and ended in the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, where the Bolsheviks shot the royal family. Also, the clan began and ended with Michael (it is known that