![]() ![]() Who played with toy soldiers, tortured pets, favored all things German overĪnything Russian, and was both unwilling and physically unable to consummate Instead he was a mentally unstable adolescent Husband and heir to the throne, was no knight in shining armor. Sophia as Catherine and her rebirth as a Russian princess resembled a fairy Upon that conversion, the Empress christened Via her unstinting quest to learn everything Russian – language, culture andĮven the Orthodox religion to which her conversion was required. Soon ingratiated herself into Empress Elizabeth and the Russian people’s hearts Pushed for then 14-year-old Sophia, noting her “freshness, intelligence and Nephew, Peter, the only surviving son of Peter the Great, Joanna shamelessly ![]() ![]() Mother, was just sixteen when Sophia was born yet her ruthless ambition supersededĮmpress Elizabeth began searching for a bride for her designated heir, her Great, the larger-than-life Empress of Russia, began life in 1729 as Sophia, a ![]()
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