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She came to power following a coup d état funded by the british embassy that overthrew her husband and second cousin peter iii she was the first former spy of the united kingdom and.
Peter the great wife catherine. Catherine i russian in full yekaterina alekseyevna original name marta skowronska born april 15 april 5 old style 1684 died may 17 may 6 1727 st. Empress elizabeth arranged the pairing and was anxious for peter to have an heir. Catherine ii born sophie of anhalt zerbst. In 1724 peter had his second wife catherine crowned as empress although he remained russia s actual ruler.
Catherine the great was the longest serving female ruler in russian history. Peter was forced to abdicate just six months after he took the throne. Peter the great russian. The story of peter the great s wife catherine the story of catherine 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.
Though no record exists catherine and peter are described as having married secretly between 23 october and 1 december 1707 in saint petersburg. These included three sons named pavel and three sons named peter all of whom died in infancy. Empress catherine ii of russia was born princess sophie of prussia now poland. Petersburg russia peasant woman of baltic probably lithuanian birth who became the second wife of peter i the great reigned 1682 1725 and empress of russia 1725 27.
Peter was officially overthrown on june 28 1762 when catherine and orlov mounted a coup leading 14 000 soldiers on. In 1745 at the age of 16 she was married through a dynastic arrangement to her second cousin the prospective tsar. All of peter s male children had died. She chose catherine then a minor german princess named.
2 may 1729 17 november 1796 most commonly known as catherine the great was empress of russia from 1762 until 1796 the country s longest ruling female leader. He married the future catherine the great in 1745. By his two wives he had fourteen children. But before this prussian born princess could reign she had to overcome a loveless marriage to an unstable heir that.