Anna Petrovna
27 February 1708 — 4 May 1728
Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia was the eldest daughter of Emperor Peter I of Russia and Empress Catherine I. Her younger sister, Empress Elizabeth, ruled between 1741 and 1762 and her son Peter III became Emperor in 1762, succeeding Elizabeth.
She was Duchess Consort of Holstein-Gottorp by marriage. She was born in Moscow and died in Kiel in her youth at the age of 20.
Family
Rests in the family mausoleum of the House of Romanov. House of Romanov family tree
- Parents: Peter the Great, Catherine I of Russia
- Spouse: Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
- Children: Peter III of Russia
A family burial site on Digital Cemetery, an endless map you can explore. It stands at coordinates 1, 1.
More historical figures on Digital Cemetery:
- Ludwig Boltzmann
- Maria Anna of Bavaria (1574–1616)
- Ivan Turgenev
- Philip Roth
- Robin Williams
- Sitting Bull
- Robert Doisneau
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel
- Prince John of the United Kingdom
- Che Guevara
- Willa Cather
- Arthur Cayley
- Zeb-un-Nissa
- Charles Gounod
- Antoine Lavoisier
- Adam Mickiewicz
- Carlos, Prince of Asturias
- Jean Baudrillard
- Sergei Diaghilev
- Keith Haring
- Joan of Austria, Princess of Portugal
- Thomas Hunt Morgan
- George Gershwin
- John Calvin