Peter II of Russia
Emperor of Russia (1715-1730) · Russia · On the map · Politicians · Died at 14
Russia's youngest emperor died at fourteen before his wedding, ending the male Romanov line. His three-year reign was a power vacuum filled by courtiers who exiled rivals and neglected the state while the boy-tsar hunted.
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Peter II Alexeyevich became Emperor of Russia in 1727 at age eleven, the only son of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich and Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg. After Catherine I's death, Alexander Menshikov seized control of the child emperor, but opposing factions outmaneuvered him and Peter ordered Menshikov exiled. The young tsar then fell under the sway of Prince Aleksey Dolgorukov and other favorites who steered him toward indulgence and hunting while state affairs decayed and serfdom tightened. By 1730 he was engaged to Ekaterina Dolgorukova, but on 30 January, days before the wedding, he died suddenly of smallpox at fourteen. With him went the last male agnatic heir of the House of Romanov.
