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Peter the Great. Peter I ( [ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ]; Russian: Пётр I Алексеевич, romanized : Pyotr I Alekseyevich, [note 1]; 9 June [ O.S. 30 May] 1672 – 8 February [ O.S. 28 January] 1725), was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia, known as Peter the Great, [note 2] from 1721 until his ...
the Great c. 958 –1015 Grand Prince of Kiev r. 980–1015: Sviatopolk I the Accursed c. 979 –1019 Grand Prince of Kiev r. 1015–1019: Izyaslav 978–1001 Prince of Polotsk: Mstislav d. 1035 Prince of Chernigov: Yaroslav I the Wise c. 978 –1054 Grand Prince of Kiev r. 1019–1054: Boris 986–1015 Prince of Rostov: Gleb 987–1015 Prince ...
The birth of Peter II of Russia, by Peter Schenk (1715) Peter was born in Saint Petersburg on 23 October 1715. His father was the only living son of Peter the Great. His mother was well-connected to European royalty, and through her, Peter was a first cousin of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. Peter's mother died when he was only ten days old.
This is a list of all reigning monarchs in the history of Russia. The list begins with the semi-legendary prince Rurik of Novgorod, sometime in the mid-9th century, and ends with Nicholas II, who abdicated in 1917, and was executed with his family in 1918. Two dynasties have ruled Russia: the Rurikids (862–1598) and Romanovs (from 1613).
Catherine I died two years after Peter I, on 17 May 1727 at age 43, in Saint Petersburg, where she was buried at St. Peter and St. Paul Fortress. Tuberculosis, diagnosed as an abscess of the lungs, caused her early demise. Before her death she recognized Peter II, the grandson of Peter I and Eudoxia, as her successor.
Abram Petrovich Gannibal. Abram Petrovich [a] Gannibal, also Hannibal or Ganibal, or Abram Hannibal or Abram Petrov ( Russian: Абра́м Петро́вич Ганниба́л; c. 1696 – 14 May 1781 [1] ), was a Russian Chief Military Engineer, General-in-Chief, and nobleman of African origin. Kidnapped and enslaved as a child by Ottomans ...
Naryshkin family. The House of Naryshkin ( Russian: Нарышкины) is a noble Russian boyar family, [1] [2] going back to a certain Mordko Kurbat Naryshko, who moved to Moscow in the 15th century. [3] It became allied to the ruling house in 1671 when the great beauty Natalya Naryshkina (daughter of Kirill Poluektovich Naryshkin) married ...
Early years. Paul was son of Emperor Peter III of Russia, nephew and anointed heir of the Empress Elizabeth (second-eldest daughter of Tsar Peter the Great), and his wife Catherine II, born Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, daughter of a minor German prince, who married into the Russian Romanov dynasty and subsequently deposed Paul's father, Peter III, to take the Russian throne and become Catherine ...