Sophia of Byzantium (1448–1503) Russian empress, niece of the last two Byzantine emperors, and second wife of Ivan III, grand prince of Moscow. Name variations: Sofia or Sophie Paleologa, Paleologue, or Paleologos; Sophia Palaeologus; Zoë or Zoe Palaeologus. Born Zoë Paleologus in Byzantium in 1448; died in Moscow on April 7, 1503; daughter of ...

10/07/2018 · The 16-year-old Sophia Dorothea was pleased with the prospect of becoming Empress of All Russia. She arrived in Russia in August 1776. On September 14, 1776, Sophia Dorothea converted from Lutheranism to Russian Orthodoxy and …

30/10/2021 · Catherine the Great of Russia - aka Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst, or Catherine Alekseevna, Empress Catherine II of Russia was the wife of Peter III of Russia. Became estranged from Peter soon after their marriage.

Following Paul's assassination in 1801, Sophia Dorothea became a formidable dowager empress and a force for conservatism in Russia until her own death in 1828. Sophia Dorothea was born in 1759 in Stettin, Pomerania, the daughter of Frederick II Eugene, duke of Wurttemberg, and Sophia Dorothea of Brandenburg. She was brought up in a close-knit and happy family living in the …

10/12/2012 · Sophia and Catherine December 10, 2012. ... the dark baroque colours which certainly don’t reflect Catherine as the most powerful woman in Russia by 1762, but rather a German princess plucked from municipal obscurity by Empress Elizabeth, and certainly someone who would not have dared aggravate other more powerful individuals, earlier on in ...

Catherine the Great, Russian Yekaterina Velikaya, also called Catherine II, Russian in full Yekaterina Alekseyevna, original name Sophie Friederike Auguste, Prinzessin von Anhalt-Zerbst, (born April 21 [May 2, New Style], 1729, Stettin, Prussia [now Szczecin, Poland]—died November 6 [November 17], 1796, Tsarskoye Selo [now Pushkin], near St. Petersburg, Russia), German-born …

10/10/2016 · The future Empress Elizabeth of Russia was born on 29 December 1709 as the daughter of Peter the Great and Catherine I of Russia. She and her sister Anna were the only two children of their parents to survive to adulthood. They had one half-sibling, Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, born from their father’s first marriage to Eudoxia Lopukhina.