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\n \n PETER III (1728-1762, Ropsha, St. Petersburg Province), Emperor (from 1761). Born Prince (from 1739, Duke) Karl Peter Ulrich von Holstein-Gottorp. Grandson of Emperor Peter the Great. Named heir to the throne after the accession of his childless aunt, Empress Elizaveta Petrovna (1742), when he was taken to St. Petersburg, christened, and given the Orthodox name of Peter Fedorovich. He married the future Empress Catherine II (1747). From 1743, he owned Oranienbaum (where a park was reconstructed), the Novy Palace (1751-52), the Ekaterinburg Fortress (1746), the Peterstadt Fortress (1756-57), as well as other buildings constructed for him. When in St. Petersburg, he lived in Elizaveta Petrovna's palaces; in 1762, he moved to the yet-unfinished Winter Palace. He was dethroned on 28 June 1762 in a Palace coup headed by his wife, sent to Ropsha and killed soon after. He was originally buried in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, and, in 1796, reburied at the SS. Peter&Paul Cathedral by order of Pavel I.

References: Мыльников А. С. Он не похож был на государя...: Петр III: Повествование в док. и версиях. СПб., 2001.

G. V. Kalashnikov.\n
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Persons
\n \n \n Catherine II, Empress\n
\n \n \n \n Elizaveta Petrovna, Empress\n
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\n \n \n \n Peter I, Emperor\n
\n \n \n \n Peter III, Emperor\n
\n \n \n \n Potemkin Grigory Alexandrovich, Gracious Prince of Tauride\n
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