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