Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
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Holstein-Gottorp is the historiographical name, as well as contemporary shorthand name, for the parts of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, also known as Ducal Holstein, that were ruled by the duk
Gottorf Castle, after which the house of Holstein-Gottorp is named
Peter III of Russia
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Peter III Fyodorovich was Emperor of Russia from 5 January 1762 until 9 July of the same year, when his wife, Catherine II, overthrew him in a palace coup d'état. He implemented many notable reforms d
Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
…In fact, to gain a port on the coast of the Northern sea, Russia needed not Schleswig but the friendship of dukes. But from this marriage was born Charles Peter Ulrich, who succeeded to Holstein-Gottorp in 1739, and became an heir to the Russian throne according to the will of Catherine I and especially upon the…
Portrait by Lucas Conrad Pfandzelt, c. 1761
Engraving of Peter as a child in the 1730s.
Portrait of Grand Duke Pyotr Feodorovich by Georg Christoph Grooth, 1743
Peter's 1746 letter to his wife in French, the language of the Russian aristocracy