grandson of Peter the Great and heir to the Russian throne. The marriage was unhappy, but the couple did produce one son, Paul. In 1762 Catherine's husband became Tsar Peter III but he was soon ...

Taken from Catherine at birth and raised by his great aunt, Empress Elizabeth ... He is also the man responsible for killing Catherine’s deposed husband Peter III in a drunken brawl. While he poses a ...

"He did not have an entirely bad heart," Catherine the Great wrote of her wastrel husband, Czar Peter III, "but a weak man usually does not." That was her nice way of saying he was pitiable as ...