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Young Elizabeth in the 1720s, painted by Ivan Nikitich Nikitin. Elizabeth was born at Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, Russia, on 18 December 1709 ( O.S. ). Her parents were Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia and Catherine. [2] Catherine was the daughter of Samuel Skowroński, a subject of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
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Elizabeth (born December 18 [December 29, New Style], 1709, Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, Russia—died December 25, 1761 [January 5, 1762], St. Petersburg) was the empress of Russia from 1741 to 1761 (1762, New Style). The daughter of Peter I the Great (reigned 1682–1725) and Catherine I (reigned 1725–27), Elizabeth grew up to be a beautiful ...
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Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia (born Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine; 1 November 1864 – 18 July 1918) was a German Hessian and Rhenish princess of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, and the wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, the fifth son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine.
The second-eldest daughter of Tsar Peter the Great ( r. 1682–1725 ), Elizabeth lived through the confused successions of her father's descendants following her half-brother Alexei 's death in 1718. The throne first passed to her mother Catherine I of Russia ( r. 1725–1727 ), then to her nephew Peter II, who died in 1730 and was succeeded by ...
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia (26 May 1826 – 28 January 1845) was the second child and daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich of Russia and Princess Charlotte of Württemberg who took the name Elena Pavlovna upon her conversion to the Orthodox faith. [1] [2] Through her father, Elizabeth was a granddaughter of Tsar Paul I of ...
