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      • On 22 November 1724, the marriage contract was signed between Karl Friedrich and Peter. By this contract, Anna and Karl Friedrich renounced all rights and claims to the crown of the Russian Empire on behalf of themselves and their descendants.
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  1. 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.

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  3. St. Petersburg, Charles Frederick fell in love with the tsar’s daughter Anna. Anna Petrovna and Elizaveta Petrovna, daughters of Peter the Great, circa 1717. Louis Caravaque. Shortly before his...

  4. Anne married Charles Frederick, duke of Holstein, and went to live at his estate in Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, where she would soon die shortly after giving birth in 1728 to the future Peter III (r. 1761–1762).

  5. Duke Charles Frederick was married to Anna Petrovna, Tsesarevna of Russia and elder daughter of Tsar Peter I and Marta Skavronskaya (who would later become Empress Catherine I of Russia). As Charles was the Swedish heir, Peter saw the marriage as politically useful.

  6. Anna Petrovna (aged 16) was to marry Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, who was then living in exile in Russia as Peter's guest after having failed in his attempt to succeed his maternal uncle as King of Sweden and whose patrimony was at that time under Danish occupation.

  7. ANNA PETROVNA, Was the eldest daughter of Peter the Great, by his second wife Catharine; she was born on the 27th. of February, 1708, and married, on the 28th. of May, 1725, a few months after the death of her father, to Charles Frederick, duke of Holstein-Gottorp, who not only lost his chance of succession to the crown of Sweden, to which he ...

  8. Born Mar 9, 1708; died June 1, 1728; dau. 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); m. Charles Frederick (1700–1739), duke of Holstein-Gottorp (r. 1702–1739), June 1, 1725; children: Peter III (b. 1728), tsar of Russia ...