Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia

Anna Petrovna (born 27 Januarjul / February 7 1708greg in Moscow, .. † May 15, 1728 in Kiel ) was a daughter of Peter the Great and the mother of Peter III.

Anna, the eldest daughter of Tsar Peter the Great and Catherine I, was the wife of Duke Karl Friedrich of Holstein (1700-1739), with whom she was betrothed in recent times the government Peters. During the reign of Catherine I., the couple suffered from Menshikov's intrigues and had immediately after the death of the Empress, who had appointed the son of her deceased stepson Tsarevich Alexei, who later became Peter II 's successor under disregard of their daughters Anna and Elizabeth, leave Russia.

Soon after the birth of their son Karl Peter Ulrich of Holstein- Gottorp, the 1762 Peter III. ascended the Russian throne, died Anna 1728.