Peter The Great And His Wife

Peter s first marriage was an unhappy one and he ended it by forcing his wife to become a nun.

Peter the great and his wife. After his divorce from his first wife it was believed peter would marry his longtime mistress anna mons. Progress through violence in russia routledge bain r. Life as a servant. 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.

When peter was just four years old his father czar alex died leaving a power vacuum over who would inherit the throne. 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. After peter divorced her in 1698 he married his second wife and the love of his life catherine i who went on to serve as the empress of russia after peter s death in 1725. In 1698 when peter was still getting a feel for his power as tsar the streltsy regiments a sort of medieval russian praetorian guard rebelled and made contact with his half sister sophia alkesyevna.

However by 1703 ana feared peter was falling out of love with her and therefore sought comfort in the arms of a prussian ambassador to make peter jealous. Said to have been born on 15 april 1684 o s. After all they had been together for 12 years. The life of catherine i was said by voltaire to be nearly as extraordinary as that of peter the great himself.

The story of catherine. It was not the first time peter the great had forced a woman in his family to stay close to the remains of her lover. During his time as czar from 1682 until his death in 1725 he implemented a variety of. 2015 the reforms of peter the great.

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. Archived from the original on 26 may 2007. Peter had 13 half brothers and sisters to his father s first wife. There are no documents that confirm her origins.

While married to peter catherine bore 12 children 10 of whom tragically died at an early age. 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.