The future Empress Elizabeth of Russia was born on 29 December 1709 as the daughter of Peter the Great and Catherine I of Russia. She and her sister Anna were the only two children of their parents to survive to adulthood. They had one half-sibling, Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, born from their father’s first marriage to [read more]
To understand the situation Anna Leopoldovna’s daughters, or rather yet all four of her children, ended up in, we must begin at the beginning. In this case, the beginning is Ivan V of Russia. He had been born in 1666 and was the elder half-brother of Peter the Great. Ivan suffered from physical and mental [read more]
I recently received this book, Royal Love Stories, by Gill Paul from Ivy Press. It has the amazing Princess Grace of Monaco on the cover, so I was quite excited. The book talks about 14 love stories, some recent and some not so recent. From history it mentions Peter I of Portugal & Inez de [read more]
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