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Grand Duchess Natalia Petrovna of Russia (20 August 1718 – 15 March 1725) was the youngest daughter of Peter the Great and his second wife, Catherine I. Life. Natalia was born in St. Petersburg, on 20 August 1718, during the peace negotiations with Sweden (Åland Congress).
Grand Duchess Natalia Petrovna of Russia was the youngest daughter of Peter the Great and his second wife, Catherine I. Born in St. Petersburg, on 20 August 1718, during the peace negotiations with Sweden (Aland Congress).
This is a list of those members of the Russian Imperial House who bore the title velikaia kniaginia (Russian: великая княгиня) or velikaia knazhna (Russian: великая княжна) (usually translated into French and English as grand duchess, but more accurately grand princess).
NameFatherBornDied17081728Elizabeth Petrovna later, Elizabeth, ...170917621714172817181746In 1741, the 13-year old son of Charles Frederick and Anna Petrovna, Duke Charles Peter Ulrich, went to Russia. Elizabeth Petrovna, Anna’s sister, became the Russian Empress – and she wanted...
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Born on 27 January 1708 in Moscow, Russia, Anna Petrovna was the fourth child of the future Catherine I of Russia and Peter the Great. Although Anna was the fourth child and second daughter born to the couple, none of her older siblings survived infancy. In 1709, Anna was joined by a sister, Elizabeth, who eventually became Empress of Russia. Anna ...
On 17 March 1721, Karl Friedrich arrived in Imperial Russia to get acquainted with his future wife and father-in-law. He aspired to use the marriage in order to ensure Russia's support for his plans of retrieving Schleswig from Denmark. He also entertained hopes of being backed up by Russia in his claims to the Swedish throne. Under the terms of th...
After the accession of her mother Catherine I, a grand wedding was held for Anna in Trinity Cathedral, Saint Petersburg on 21 May 1725. The wedding party then crossed the River Neva to the Summer Garden, where Mikhail Zemtsovhad designed a special banqueting hall for the occasion. The tables were set with all sorts of delicacies, including enormous...
On 25 July 1727, Anna and her husband left Saint Petersburg for Kiel. When they arrived in the capital of Holstein, the duke underwent a personality change. Merry and gallant in Saint Petersburg, he was now a rude, drunken boor. He spent his time in the rowdy company of friends and other women, leaving his wife, now pregnant, entirely on her own. I...
On 21 February 1728, Anna gave birth in Kiel Castle to sons named Carl Peter Ulrich, the future Peter III of Russia and Mikail Romanov, the abandoned son. Peter would found the House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov that would go on to rule Russia until the early 20th-century. A few days after his birth, the barely twenty-year-old duchess caught puerper...
Through her marriage with the Duke Karl Friedrich, she had one son 1. Prince Peter Feodorovich, Hereditary Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (21 February 1728 – 17 July 1762). In 1739, Peter's father died, and he became The Duke of Holstein-Gottorp as Karl Peter Ulrich. He could thus be considered the heir to both thrones (Russia and Sweden). After the deat...
The Order of Saint Anna(Russian: Орден святой Анны) was a Holstein and then Russian order of chivalry established by Anna's husband on 14 February 1735, in honour of Anna. The motto of the Order wa...Through her son she is an ancestor of Maria Vladimirovna of Russia, Head of the House of Romanovand Heir to the Former Russian Throne (disputed).Anna with her sister, Grand Duchess ElizabethPeter I; Catherine I; Alexei, Tsarevich of Russia; Anna behind her sister Elizabeth and Peter Petrovich (1715 – 1719)Anna's only child, the future Peter III of RussiaThe Order of Saint Anna First ClassHenry Gardiner Adams, ed. (1857). "Anna Petrovna". A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography. Wikidata Q115749716.(in Russian) BiographyThis article includes content derived from the Russian Biographical Dictionary, 1896–1918.Catherine was the first woman to rule Imperial Russia, opening the legal path for a century almost entirely dominated by women, including her daughter Elizabeth and granddaughter-in-law Catherine the Great, all of whom continued Peter the Great's policies in modernizing Russia.
Grand Duchess Natalia Petrovna II - Family of Peter I and Catherine I - Romanov - Russian Rulers - Biographies - Grand Duchess Natalia Petrovna II was the tenth child and sixth daughter of Peter the Great and Catherine I. She was born in St Petersburg on
