Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg
| Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg | |
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| Tsarevna of Russia | |
Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg
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| Born |
28 August 1694 Wolfenbüttel, Germany |
| Died | 2 November 1715 (aged 21) Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Burial | Peter and Paul Cathedral |
| Spouse | Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia |
| Issue |
Grand Duchess Natalia Alexeievna Peter II of Russia |
| House | Welf |
| Father | Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg |
| Mother | Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen |
| Religion | Lutheranism |
Charlotte Christine Sophie also known as Sophie Charlotte or simply Charlotte (28 August 1694, Wolfenbüttel – 2 November 1715, Saint Petersburg), was the wife of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia. She was the daughter of Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen. She was also the great aunt of Marie Antoinette.
Charlotte Christine was brought up at the court of the Polish King August II, whose consort Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth was her distant kinswoman and also her godmother. She received a good education for that time period. In late 1709, Tsar Peter I of Russia sent his son Alexei to Dresden to finish his education. There, he met Charlotte for the first time. She seemed a good match to Tsar Peter for his son because her elder sister Elizabeth Christine was married to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, and the support of Austria in the upcoming fight with the Turks was appreciated by Russian diplomats.
On 25 October 1711 at Torgau, Charlotte Christine married Tsarevich Alexei, eldest son and heir of Peter I of Russia by his first wife Eudoxia Lopukhina. She was allowed to keep her Lutheran faith, but any children would be raised as Russian Orthodox. This marriage was the first to break the old tradition of the Russian imperial family of only marrying women from the Russian nobility. Thus Charlotte was the first member of the Russian imperial family who came from a foreign European dynasty since Zoe Palaiologina. In 1713 she arrived in Russia.
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