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Renée Soutendijk as Anna Mons (Peter's Dutch mistress) Hanna Schygulla as Catherine Skavronskaya (Peter's 2nd mistress and later on wife) Christoph Eichhorn as Charles XII, King of Sweden; Lilli Palmer as Tsarina Natalya, mother of Peter the Great; Mel Ferrer as Frederick I, King in Prussia; Elke Sommer as Charlotte, Queen in Prussia; Jan ...
Possibly husband and father of illegitimate Elizabeth Grigorieva Temkina. [4] Pyotr Zavadovsky — official favourite in 1776—1777; Semyon Zorich — official favourite in 1777—1778; Ivan Rimsky-Korsakov — official favourite in 1778—1779; Alexander Lanskoy — official favourite in 1780—1784; Alexander Yermolov — official favourite ...
In 1707, Peter I married again, to Marta Helena SkowroĊska, later to become Catherine I of Russia, who dyed her hair black so she would not resemble flaxen hair-ed Anna Mons. [6] Anna's younger brother, Willem Mons, became secretary and friend of Catherine. He was an old friend of Peter's, having taken part in the Battle of Poltava.
Mary Hamilton, or Maria Danilovna Gamentova (died 14 March 1719), was the lady-in-waiting of Empress Catherine I of Russia and a royal mistress of Tsar Peter the Great of Russia. She was executed for abortion, infanticide, theft and slander of Empress Catherine. She is pointed out as one of the possible inspirations for the song "Mary Hamilton".
Peter was portrayed on BBC Radio 4 by Isaac Rouse as a boy, Will Howard as a young adult and Elliot Cowan as an adult in the radio plays Peter the Great: The Gamblers [125] and Peter the Great: The Queen of Spades, [126] written by Mike Walker and which were the last two plays in the first series of Tsar. The plays were broadcast on 25 ...
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Amid Prince Andrew's ongoing drama and in the aftermath of Harry and Meghan's royal exit, the queen's grandson, Peter, announced that he's separated.
Emperor Peter the Great died (28 January 1725 Old Style) without naming a successor. Catherine represented the interests of the "new men", commoners who had been brought to positions of great power by Peter based on competence. A change of government was likely to favor the entrenched aristocrats.