Twilight
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Nicholas' paternal line was German; the dukes of Holstein-Gottorp; his paternal ancestor Carl Frederick (1700-1739) married Anna, the daughter of tsar Peter I.
afterwards, the Holstein-Gottorp line became known as Romanov, but its a recent German line.
Still, it comes to show that German groups were present in Russia. ^_^
I don't think my DNA is not native to the Caucasus where there are still numerous ethnic groups who are not closely related to each other. I didn't get what you mean by the word Europoid, but my ancestors, Circassians, come from the Northwestern part of the region, and we are not Asian.
The north of the country was held by the European Circassians while the Asiatic Avars invaded from the east, and a number of other smaller Turkic invaders penetrated the region, especially during the era of the great Muslim invasions of the Middle East.
The Circassians were in fact a tribe from North West Caucasus, but their name became interchangeable with Caucasian. Beauty treatments such as ‘The Bloom of Circassia’ lotion were bestsellers in Europe and the US throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Blue-eyed Caucasian regiments today form the cream of the Sultan’s army. Circassian beauties are admired for their abundant and luxuriant yellow hair and blue eyes.
The daughter of a Circassian was a dazzling beauty with the complexion of a German blonde.
https://circassianbeauties.wordpress.com
The link that you provided includes some other interesting quotations. I have just seen another one from the book entitled Gothonic Nations which talks about the Circassian Giants. The full name of the book is Our forefathathers: The Gothonic nations: A manual of the ethnography of the Gothic, German, Dutch, Anglo-Saxon, Frisian and Scandinavian peoples. It is interesting to read these, but I don't think my ancestors were Germanic people who got assimilated in the Caucasus. I don't think we have any relationship except for some ancient links and physical characteristics that are similar to a certain extent. Both groups are known for their fair features and tall height. Thor and Tho means God in Circassian language as well, and I see there are similarities between Circassian and Germanic mythologies if this is what you're referring to the links below. Yet, this doesn't suggest that we are Germanic. Circassian language is regarded as an isolated language with no known relatives, so it's not Germanic.
(1984, c) Parallels between the Circassian Nart Sagas, the Rg Veda, and Germanic Mythology, in V. Setty Pendakur (ed.), South Asian Horizons, vol. 1, Culture and Philosophy, pp. 1-28. Ottawa: Carleton University, Canadian Asian Studies Association.
http://johncolarusso.net/pdf/Prometheus_among_the_Circassians.pdf
These are very interesting, indeed.
I think Goga is referring to the Caucasian race. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race
Fair enough ^_^, good luck in your reaserch.