Nikolay III Romanov

Pretender to the Russian throne, known as heir apparent of Imperial Throne of Russian Empire Nikolay the III Romanov with his wife August Czarina Natalia the I leave the UNIAN agency, in Kyiv, after the press-conference on Thursday, July 13, 2000. Nikolay Romanov-Dalskyi, a native of Saratov, introduces himself as grandson of Nikolay the I and son of Czarevitch Alexey , who, according to him, had escaped from execution. Natalia Evgenievna is countess Musina-Pushkina by birth. The couple was crowned in December of 1996 in t. Bogorodske, Russia. On the press-conference the apparent expressed readiness to help to Ukraine out of the Czar's family heritage, which is still kept in that western banks and which, according to him, makes up some 700 trillions of American dollars. In the course of their private visit in Ukraine Nikolay Alekseevich plans to meet with Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma. Photo by Victor Pobedinskyi/ UNIAN