Lavish St Petersburg Wedding
11/11/1710 AD married
In 1710, Peter the Great had arranged for the 17-year-old Anna to marry Frederick William, Duke of Courland, who was about the same age as her.
The wedding is held on a grand scale, as per her own inclination; and her uncle gives her a fabulous dowry of 200,000 roubles.
At the feast which followed the wedding, two dwarfs performed a parody by jumping out of enormous pies and dancing on the tables.
The newly wedded couple spent several weeks in Russia before proceeding to Courland. Only twenty miles out of St. Petersburg, on the road to Courland, on 21 January 1711, Duke Frederick died.
Saint Petersburg
Lattitude: 59.9343° N
Longitude: 30.3351° E
Region: Russia and Eastern Bloc
Modern Day Russia
Lattitude: 59.9343° N
Longitude: 30.3351° E
Region: Russia and Eastern Bloc
Modern Day Russia
Subjects Who or What married?
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Frederick William, Duke of Courland (Friedrich Wilhelm Kettler) Duke of Courland a...
Objects To Whom or What was married?
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Anna of Russia (Anna Ioannovna) Empress of All Rus...
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