So enlightened was Peter the Great that he divorced his first wife, a noblewoman with whom he had a son named Alexei, to marry a peasant maid who later took the Russian Orthodox name Catherine ...
grandson of Peter the Great and heir to the Russian throne. The marriage was unhappy, but the couple did produce one son, Paul. In 1762 Catherine's husband became Tsar Peter III but he was soon ...
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