Peter II of Russia
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Peter II Alexeyevich was Emperor of Russia from 1727 until 1730, when he died at the age of 14. He was the only son of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich and Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg. After C
Portrait, 1720s
The birth of Peter II of Russia, by Peter Schenk (1715)
Menshikov was the de facto ruler of Russia when Peter II came to the throne
Peter II's coat of arms of Russia (1727–1728)
Alexei Petrovich Romanov, was the Tsarevich of Russia, the eldest son of Tsar Peter I and his first wife, Eudoxia Lopukhina.
Peter II of Russia
…Alexeyevich (23 October 1715 – 30 January 1730) was Emperor of Russia from 1727 until 1730, when he died at the age of 14. He was the only son of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich and Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg. After Catherine I's death, Alexander Menshikov controlled Peter II, but was thwarted by his opponents…
Portrait of Alexei by Johann Gottfried Tannauer, c. 1712–1716
Charlotte Christine, Tsarevna of Russia
Portrait by Christoph Bernhard Francke, undated
Peter the Great Interrogating the Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich at Peterhof, by Nikolai Ge, 1871, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow