petersburg, the german princess in the river, that was the name of her parents or ekaterina alekseevnay call her in russia, she dreamed, she was only 15 she was the bride of the heir to the russian throne, what she dreamed of should be like everyone else her girls about love. but her dreams were soon shattered in russia, i was not going to love anyone, and then she herself fell in love with russia this is not known, even by his close associates. the sovereign grimaces during ceremonies at leisure plays soldiers and publicly announces that he would prefer to rule civilized sweden than wild russia at birth, peter iii received the name karl peterlich, his father was the duke, holstein, the gotovian karl friedrich, the nephew of charles 12 of sweden, the mother of anna petrovna, the daughter of peter the great, the heir to both the russian and swedish throne at 11 completely orphaned at the age of 14 he was taken to russia by his aunt empress elizabeth he converted to orthodoxy with the name fedorovich hips 17 years old peter was married to a sixteen-year-old princess angard-serbian orthod