Happy Birthday Peter III of Russia
Peter III was born on 21 February 1728, the only child of Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and Anna Petrovna, one of Peter the Great’s older daughters. Anna Petrovna died just a few months after her son’s birth. The baby, who was baptized Karl Peter Ulrich, was heir to Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and probable heir… Read more Happy Birthday Peter III of Russia