Pyotr I of Russia

Born Pyotr Alexeyevich Tsarevich of Russia; succeeded his half-brother Fyodor III as Tsar of All Russia in 1682 (ruled jointly with his brother Ivan 1682-1796); proclaimed himself Emperor of All the Russians in 1721

Son of Aleksey Mikhailovich, Tsar of All Russia (1629-1676) by his second wife Natalya Kirillovna Naryshkina (1651-1694)

Born: Moscow 30. May 1672

Baptized: Moscow 29. Jun 1672

Married:

1. Moscow 27. Jan 1689 (div. 1698) Yevdokija Fyodorovna Lopukhina (1672-1731) [of Russian nobility], daughter of Illarion (Fyodor) Avramovich Lopukhin (1638-1713) and Ustinya Bogdanovna Rtishcheva (d. 1691)
2. Allegedly, secretly 1707, officially St. Petersburg 19. Feb 1712 Marta Skawronska, who became Empress Yekaterina I in 1725 (1684-1727), daughter of Samue Skawronski and Dorothea Hahn

Issue of first marriage:

• Aleksey Petrovich Tsarevich of Russia (1690-1718, tortured to death) m. 1711 Charlotte (Natalya Petrovna) Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1694-1715)

• Aleksander Petrovich Tsarevich of Russia (1691-1692)

• [Pavel Petrovich Tsarevich of Russia(1693-1693), disputed]

Issue of second marriage:

• [Pavel Petrovich (1704-1707), disputed]

• [Pyotr Petrovich (1705-1707), disputed]

• Yekaterina Petrovna Tsarevna of Russia (1707-1708)

• Anna Petrovna Grand Duchess of Russia (1708-1728) m. 1725 Karl Friedrich Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1700-1739)

• Yelisavyeta Petrovna, Empress of All the Russians in 1741 (1709-1762) m. 1750 Aleksey Grigoryevitch Rozum, cr. Reichgraf Razumovsky in 1744 (1709-1771)

• Natalya Petrovna Tsarevna of Russia (1713-1715)

• Margarita Petrovna Tsarevna of Russia (1714-1715)

• Pyotr Petrovich Tsarevich of Russia (1715-1719)

• Natalya Petrovna Grand Duchess of Russia (1718-1725)

Died: Saint Petersburg 28. Jan 1725 from uremia following gangrene of the urinary bladder

Buried: Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg

Detlev Schwennicke “Europäische Stammtafeln. Neue Folge” Vol II; Vittorio Klostermann, 2005; www.ru.wikipedia.org