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Jul 6, 2018 · Why Peter the Great Tortured and Killed His Own Son. The terrified tsarevich volunteered to relinquish his claim to the throne, but that wasn't enough to appease his powerful father. By:...
- Jesse Greenspan
- 6 min
He was born in Moscow, the son of Tsar Peter I and his first wife, Eudoxia Lopukhina. Alexei despised his father and repeatedly thwarted Peter's plans to raise him as successor to the throne, to continue his policies.
Tsarevich Alexis Petrovich was the first child and first son of Peter the Great and Eudoxia Lopukhina. He was born in Moscow on 18 February 1690 and baptised on 23 February 1690. His godparents were Patriarch Joachim and his great-aunt Tsarevna Tatyana Mikhailovna.
Nov 21, 2016 · Someone who was constantly out of favor with Peter was his firstborn child Alexei, who was born in 1690. His mother, Peter's unloved wife, was sent to a convent, and he lived his first 19 years...
3 days ago · At Peter’s death his chief collaborators, who were headed by Prince Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov and were assisted by the guard regiments (the offshoots of the play regiments of Peter’s youth), put on the throne Peter’s widow—his second wife, Catherine I, the daughter of a Lithuanian peasant. Quite naturally, Menshikov ruled in her name.
Tsar Peter proclaimed his son Peter as the heir, but he died in 1719. Peter and his half-brother Ivan V had both produced many daughters, and the heir was not obvious. Peter’s grandson by Aleksei, Petr Alekseevich, was alive and healthy.
Saraf is the son of the late film producer and director, Irving Saraf. Irving Saraf, who was born in Poland and raised in Israel, won an Academy Award for the documentary film, In the Shadow of the Stars, in 1991. Peter graduated from Wesleyan University in 1988. He is married to Erika Greene and they have two children. References
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