Stock Photo - Peter III (1728 – 1762) (Pyotr III Fyodorovich); emperor of Russia for six months in 1762. He was born in Kiel as Karl Peter Ulrich, the only child of Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and Anna Petrovna, the elder surviving daughter of Peter the Great. He was deposed and possibly assassinated as a result of a conspiracy led by his German wife Princess Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg, who succeeded him to the throne as Catherine II.

Stock Photo: Peter III (1728 – 1762) (Pyotr III Fyodorovich); emperor of Russia for six months in 1762. He was born in Kiel as Karl Peter Ulrich.

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