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Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia (Russian: А́нна Петро́вна; 27 January 1708 – 4 March 1728) was the eldest daughter of Emperor Peter I of Russia and his wife Empress Catherine I. Her younger sister, Empress Elizabeth, ruled between 1741 and 1762.
Three months after his birth his mother died; and soon after, in 1736, the widower instituted, in her honour, the order of St. Anne, which has been adopted in Russia, and is now the fourth order of knighthood in that empire. Anna Petrovna was the favourite daughter of Peter, whom she greatly resembled.
Because Anna’s letters show she died in May 1728, three months after childbirth. Could she have been poisoned? Or was it the consequences of childbed fever, very common indeed in those days?
Name variations: Anna Petrovna. Born on March 9, 1708; died on June 1, 1728; daughter of Catherine I (1684–1727), empress of Russia (r. 1725–1727) and Peter I the Great, tsar of Russia (r. 1682–1725); sister of Elizabeth Petrovna (1709–1762); married Charles Frederick (1700–1739), duke of Holstein-Gottorp (r. 1702–1739), on June 1 ...
Tsarevna Anna Petrovna - Family of Peter I and Catherine I - Romanov - Russian Rulers - Biographies - Anna Petrovna was the fourth child and second daughter of Peter the Great and Catherine I. She was born in Moscow on 27 January 1708.
Is Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia still alive? No, she died on 03/04/1728, 295 years ago. She was 20 years old when she died. Cause of death: puerperal disorders. She died in Kiel and buried in Peter and Paul Cathedral. Family
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It was here that Anna died on 4 March 1728, within several days of giving birth to Peter, the future Emperor of Russia and progenitor of all the 19th-century Romanovs. She had barely turned 20 years old.
