Peter The Great First Wife

Peter had 13 half brothers and sisters to his father s first wife.

Peter the great first wife. His older sister his first wife and now his late son. Peter was born in moscow the only son of czar alex to his father s second wife natalia narishkina. A few years later peter crowned her as empress of russia and when he died he named her as the fittest person to be his successor on the throne. Peter s mother selected his first wife eudoxia lopukhina with the advice of other nobles in 1689.

Catherine was the first woman to rule imperial russia opening the legal path for a century almost entirely dominated by women including her daughter elizabeth and granddaughter in law catherine the great all of whom continued peter the great s policies in modernizing russia. Unlike his half brothers sons of his father s first wife mariya ilinichna miloslavskaya peter proved a healthy child lively and inquisitive. Although peter the great is an emperor known for implemented sweeping reforms to modernize russia he also had a dark side that caused him to send his first wife away to a nunnery and torture his own son to death. Peter the great had two wives with whom he had fourteen children three of whom survived to adulthood.

Thus the peasant girl of livonia who was made a captive in war and a servant rose by her genius and courage to be the sole ruler of a great empire the first woman who ever reigned over russia. Peter s first marriage was an unhappy one and he ended it by forcing his wife to become a nun. Peter was the son of tsar alexis by his second wife natalya kirillovna naryshkina. Peter i better known as peter the great is generally credited with bringing russia into the modern age.

Peter the greats first marriage or the first wife it should say was sent to a nunnery along with his half sister for sympathizing with the streltsy which he had 1000 of them put to death. Unfortunately grandson reminded peter of the disgraced prodigal son alexei. He prepared to marry anna despite her lowly birth but the discovery that she was having affairs with other men destroyed the relationship and resulted in anna being placed under house arrest. By 1715 peter the great had managed to alienate or kill most of his close family members.