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Also Known As Pyotr Alekseyevich
Born October 23, 1715 • St. Petersburg • Russia
Died January 29, 1730 (aged 14) • Moscow • Russia
Title / Office emperor (1727-1730), Russian Empire
House / Dynasty Romanov dynasty
Notable Family Members father Alexis

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Peter I
emperor of Russia
Catherine II
Catherine the Great
empress of Russia
Sergey Yulyevich Witte
Sergey Yulyevich, Count Witte
prime minister of Russia
Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev
Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev
Russian statesman
Nikolay Pavlovich, Count Ignatyev
Nikolay Pavlovich, Count Ignatyev
Russian statesman
Paul, emperor of Russia
Paul
emperor of Russia
Anna Ivanovna
Anna
empress of Russia
Peter III
Peter III
emperor of Russia
Catherine I
empress of Russia
Anna Leopoldovna, detail of an engraving by J. Wagner after a portrait by N.A. Venetus, 18th century
Anna
regent of Russia
Ernst Johann, Reichsgraf von Biron
duke of Courland
First False Dmitry
Russian pretender
Anatoly Chubais
Russian economist and politician
Vladimir A. Kryuchkov
Soviet politician
Second False Dmitry
Russian pretender
Third False Dmitry
Russian pretender
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
prime minister of Soviet Union
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin
president of Russia
Nicholas I
Nicholas I
tsar of Russia
Alexander I
Alexander I
emperor of Russia

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