Peter The Great Wives

He prepared to marry anna despite her lowly birth but the discovery that she was having affairs with other men destroyed the relationship and resulted in anna being placed under house arrest.

Peter the great wives. Peter ii alexeyevich russian. In 1689 peter wed eudoxia but the marriage ended in 1698. The story of catherine. Peter the great had two wives with whom he had fourteen children three of whom survived to adulthood.

19 january 1730 reigned as emperor of russia from 1727 until his untimely death. Said to have been born on 15 april 1684 o s. пётр ii алексеевич pyotr ii alekseyevich 23 october o s. This was consistent with previous romanov tradition by choosing a daughter of a minor noble.

5 april she was originally named marta helena skowrońska marta was the daughter of samuel skowroński later spelt samuil skavronsky a roman catholic peasant from the. There are no documents that confirm her origins. Life as a servant. They married in 1712 and in 1724 she was crowned empress consort.

Peter s first marriage was an unhappy one and he ended it by forcing his wife to become a nun. Peter the great the emperor who in a few years changed russia from a country of half savage tribes into a great european nation was one day visiting one of his officers and saw in his house a young girl who attracted his attention by her beauty and her graceful manners. 12 october 1715 30 january o s. Who were peter the great s wives.

After peter died in 1725 she became empress. His older sister his first wife and now his late son. He later became involved with the future catherine i a baltic woman who had been taken prisoner during the second northern war. The life of catherine i was said by voltaire to be nearly as extraordinary as that of peter the great himself.

In the 1780s catherine the great the wife of peter the great s grandson spotted it by mary hamilton s head on a dusty shelf while walking by with a friend. By 1715 peter the great had managed to alienate or kill most of his close family members. Peter the greats first marriage or the first wife it should say was sent to a nunnery along with his half sister for sympathizing with the streltsy which he had 1000 of them put to death. He was the only son of tsarevich alexei petrovich son of peter the great by his first wife eudoxia lopukhina and of charlotte christine of brunswick lüneburg.

He was the grandson of tsar michael romanov and was made tsar.