1. A tsarina from Mirkutsk.

2. A tsarina from Mirkutsk, and a decorated war hero.

3. The Tsarina of Russia immediately marched her regiments into Poland to support her candidate.

4. Indeed, the Crimean peninsula has loomed large for Russian leaders ever since Russian Tsarina Catherine the Great annexed it from the Ottoman …

5. The 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, great niece of Russia’s last Tsarina, first cousin to Prince Philip and the daughter of Britain’s last Viceroy of India, the late Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten was born in 1924 into a dynasty of royal and political relations