Biography Peter2

The biography of Peter II is the early years. A few days after the birth of Peter, his mother died, and three years later his father died. The education of the child both under Peter the Great and under Catherine I were given very little attention. They taught the prince mathematics, history, geography and Latin. After the death of the son of Peter I, political forces began to consider the boy’s candidacy as a contender for the throne.

Finally, in the year, A. Menshikov managed to convince Catherine I to leave a will, which stated that the throne went to Peter II and that he should take the wife of Menshikov Maria as his wife. After the death of Catherine I and the formation of Peter the emperor, Menshikov settled him in his house and followed all his actions. In connection with the celebrations regarding the coronation of the emperor in Moscow, Governor-General F.

Romodanovsky was ordered to build and decorate three gates on Tverskaya Street: in China-Gorod-at the expense of the Synod, in the White City, in an earthen city-at the expense of the treasury. Peter II was crowned on February 25 in the Assumption Cathedral of the Kremlin. All celebrations lasted for three days and passed in the granuted chamber of the Kremlin Palace. Since the spring of the year, the emperor’s residence was the Lefortovo Palace, the court and all state institutions moved to Moscow.

Tsarevich often left Moscow, going hunting in the estates of the Moscow Region. After some time, Prince Menshikov began to hurt a lot, his opponents took advantage of this, and under the influence of the princes of Dolgoruky and A. the biography of the great emperor says that Peter II grew up a very smart, but stubborn and wayward boy. The disposition he looked like his grandfather Peter I, but unlike him did not want to study.

By virtue of his young age, he practically did not deal with state affairs and almost never appeared at meetings of the Supreme Privy Council. Thanks to this, the management system came to the collapse, as officials were afraid to take responsibility for any decisions.

The Russian fleet was abandoned, the Supreme Council fell, since Peter II was not interested in this. The young emperor with great reverence belonged to his grandmother Queen Evdokia, who was tonsured in the nun and during the power of Peter II transferred from the Ladonezh Monastery to the Novodevichy Monastery. The biography of Peter II is mature years. The biography of the emperor says that his favorites were the father and son of the prince Dolgoruky, for whom only their personal interests were important.

Under the influence of Ivan Dolgoruky, who led a rampant lifestyle, Peter was on various feasts most of his time, spent time for games in cards, often in the same society with girls of easy behavior, and began to abuse alcoholic beverages early. In November, the princes Dolgoruky persuaded Peter to engage in the famous Princess Catherine Dolgoruka. In the biography of the emperor there is evidence that by this moment he was already burdened by the society of his father and son Dolgoruky and began to show interest in state affairs.

Osterman, who was very attached to the king, he promised repeatedly to start studying, but could not realize his plans Peter II, since in January, on the eve of his wedding, he became seriously ill. Rumors of his possible ambulance crawled in Russia. The state of the emperor worsened greatly after he took part in the frosty baptismal water supply, the next day after which he was found OSPU.

The princes Dolgoruky tried to achieve the signing by the emperor of the will, in which his named bride became the heiress of the throne, but they were not allowed to be patient with a sick Peter. Ivan Dolgoruky even went to extreme measures, deciding to fake the handwriting of the emperor, but he could not have this trick, since Osterman was inseparably next to the dying Peter.

In a dying delirium, Peter II ordered him to give him horses in order to go to his sister Natalia, who had died two years ago, and after several tens of minutes died. This happened at the dawn of a new day, when the emperor had to take place with a wedding with Catherine Dolgoruka. She, saying goodbye to the deceased groom, jumped up with a crazy face, raising her hand with a nominal ring, exclaimed that Peter Alekseevich had just declared her an empress.

For this she was put under house arrest, and after a while they sent a link to Siberia to a lifelong exile, where Later Catherine died, like the first bride of the emperor Maria Menshikova. He was buried in the Arkhangelsk Cathedral of the Kremlin. After the death of Peter II, the male line of the Romanov dynasty was interrupted. The activities of Peter II, who died so early, cannot be called independent, he was all the time under guardianship and influence of strangers who used it as an instrument of control of the palace parties of those times.

Nevertheless, during its such short and unconscious reign, several laws and decrees were issued, which cannot be mentioned.This is a decree on the transfer of important cases to the Supreme Secret Council of May 24; Decrees of the same year on the abolition of the main magistrate and the correct collection of per capita taxes from the population; Decree on transferring from the Senate to the Foreign College of Little Russian Affairs of June 16; The bill charter of the year and the decree is curious about the prohibition of the clergy to wear the clothes of the laity of September 29.

Despite the fact that Peter II ascended the throne when he was only twelve years old, and that after three years he was gone, the role of the emperor’s reign for Russia cannot be underestimated. The young autocrat changed the main ways of conducting public affairs in Russia, he prevented the princes Dolgoruky, Osterman and Prince Menshikov from coming to power. See all portraits here.