Duke Constantine Petrovich of Oldenburg
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| Duke Constantine Petrovich of Oldenburg | |||||
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9 May 1850 St. Petersburg, Russian Empire |
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| Died | 18 March 1906 (aged 55) Nice, France |
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| Spouse | Agrippina Japaridze, Countess von Zarnekau | ||||
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Aleksandra Konstantinovna, Princess Yurievsky Countess Ekaterina Konstantinovna von Zarnekau Count Nikolai Konstantinovich von Zarnekau Count Aleksai Konstantinovich von Zarnekau Count Petr Konstantinovich von Zarnekau Countess Nina Konstantinovna von Zarnekau |
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| House | House of Holstein-Gottorp | ||||
| Father | Duke Peter Georgievich of Oldenburg | ||||
| Mother | Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg | ||||
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| Konstantin Friedrich Peter of Holstein-Gottorp |
Konstantin Friedrich Peter von Holstein-Gottorp, Duke of Oldenburg(9 May 1850 - 18 March 1906) was a son of Duke Peter Georgievich of Oldenburg and his wife Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg Known in the court of Tsar Nicholas II as Duke Constantine Petrovich of Oldenburg, he was the father of the Russian Counts and Countesses von Zarnekau.
As the seventh-born child in his family, Duke Constantine Petrovich was a junior member of a cadet branch of the House of Holstein-Gottorp, a small ducal house based on Germany's border with Denmark.
During the 18th Century, the Dukes of Holstein-Gottorp gained influence through a carefully planned series of marital alliances with the royal houses of Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Prussia. The childless Empress Elizabeth of Russia proclaimed her nephew, Charles Peter Ulrich of Holstein-Gottorp heir to the throne and when he became Tsar Peter III of Russia in 1762, the Holstein-Gottorps, themselves a cadet branch of the House of Oldenburg, became the Imperial house of Russia, which they ruled until 1917 under the name of Romanov.
Tsar Peter III of Russia married on 21 August 1745 to his second cousin, the Prussian princess Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg, better known as Catherine II or Catherine the Great. The couple had one son, Paul, who, after the death of Empress Catherine in 1796, ruled as Emperor Paul I of Russia until his assassination in 1801. Paul and his wife, Maria Feodorovna, Duchess of Württemberg, had 10 children. Their eldest son ruled as Emperor Alexander I of Russia between 1801 and 1825, the period of the Napoleonic Wars.
In 1808, when Oldenburg was overrun by French and Dutch troops, Peter I, the Grand Duke of Oldenburg and Prince-Bishop of Lübeck, sent his second-eldest son, Duke George of Oldenburg, to stay in Russia with his relatives, the Russian Imperial Family.
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