Peter von Biron
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Peter von Biron was the last duke of Courland and Semigallia from 1769 to 1795, when it was annexed by the Russian Empire.
Jesters of empress Anna Ioannovna. Duke Peter is sitting in the middle in a blue suit with a stick. Painting by Valery Jacobi (1872)
Katharina Friederike Wilhelmine Benigna, Princess of Courland, Duchess of Sagan; died 29 November 1839 in Vienna, Austrian Empire was a German noble from the ruling family of Courland and Semigallia a
Peter von Biron
…Countess Dorothea von Medem (a member of the old Courland nobility) in 1779. They had six children, of whom two died in infancy. The remaining four were: Princess Wilhelmine, Duchess of Sagan; on Peter's death, it was she who inherited the duchy of Sagan in Silesia and the Herrschaft of Náchod in Bohemia. Princess Pauline…
Portrait by Joseph Maria Grassi, 1799
Princess Wilhelmine, Duchess of Sagan by Bertel Thorvaldsen 1818, Albertinum, Dresden