Peter III of Russia
The seventh Emperor of Russia (1762)
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He ruled Russia for 186 days before his wife staged a coup and took the throne. Within weeks he was dead under circumstances so murky that Catherine's official explanation—hemorrhoids—drew mockery from Voltaire.
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Born a German duke as Charles Peter Ulrich of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, he lost his mother to childbirth fever and inherited Holstein-Gottorp after his father's death. In 1742 he was named heir to both the Russian and Swedish thrones, but his forced conversion to Russian Orthodoxy disqualified him from Sweden. He married his second cousin Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst in 1745; she became Catherine, and they had one surviving son, Paul. When Peter succeeded his aunt as Emperor of Russia on 5 January 1762, he pushed through notable reforms but enraged the military by ending the Seven Years' War and…
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