The article examines the attitude of members of the Russian Imperial family in the matrimonial policy of the dynasty in the late 19th – early 20th centuries. During this period, the most acute questions arose about morganatic marriages and intra-dynastic unions. The article assesses both the individual perception of the Romanovs processes in the field of matrimonial politics, and the established views on the problems of marriages. The sources of the article are correspondence, diaries and memoirs of representatives of the Imperial family.

The article examines the formation, development and essential characteristics of the mutual denial of royal intermarriage and morganatic marriages of the House of Romanov in the 19th – early 20th centuries. The phenomenon of the growing prevalence of morganatic marriages over dynastic marriages, their direct dependence on social processes in Russian society and their impact on the situation within the dynasty are assessed.