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Sophie Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst (9 March 1663 – 14 September 1694), was a German noblewoman member of the House of Ascania and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weimar . Born in Zerbst, she was the eleventh of fourteen children born from the marriage of John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst and Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp.
Sophie Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst (9 March 1663 – 14 September 1694), was a German noblewoman member of the House of Ascania and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weimar.
When "Empress Catherine the Great" Sophia Augusta Frederika von Anhalt Zerbst was born on 2 May 1729, in Stettin, Pomerania, Prussia, her father, Prince Christian August von Anhalt-Zerbst, was 38 and her mother, Princess Johanna Elisabeth zu Holstein-Gottorp, was 16.
Known as Catherine the Great of Russia, she was born Princess Sophie Friederike Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst in Stettin, a military town in Prussia. She was brought to Russia in 1744 at the behest of ruling Tsarina Elizabeth I to marry Elizabeth's nephew Peter. She was given a new Russian name, Ekaterina,...
Sophie Friederike Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst, later Empress Catherine II of Russia and called Catherine the Great, was born in Stettin, Prussia (now Szczecin, Poland), on May 2 (April 21, old style), 1729, and died in Tsarskoye Selo, near St. Petersburg, on November 17 (November 6, O.S.), 1796.
Father. Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels. Mother. Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Sophia of Saxe-Weissenfels (also: Sophie; 23 June 1654 in Halle an der Saale – 31 March 1724 in Zerbst) was a member of the Albertine branch of the House of Wettin, and a princess of Saxe-Weissenfels and Querfurt by birth and by marriage Princess of Anhalt ...
Oct 17, 2016 · The future Empress Catherine II of Russia was born as Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg as the daughter of Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst and Princess Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp on 2 May 1729. She arrived in Russia in 1744 as the prospective bride of the future Peter III of Russia.
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