Peter Antonovich of Brunswick [SEP] father
Peter Antonovich of Brunswick
Peter Antonovich of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1745–1798), was the second son of Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick and Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna of Russia, and younger brother of Ivan VI.
The siblings were kept prisoner because their right to the Russian throne, according to the succession of Empress Anna, made them potential political threats to Empress Elizabeth, Emperor Peter III, and eventually Empress Catherine the Great. In contrast to their elder brother, the deposed Ivan VI, who was placed in solitary confinement
of them ever married or left progeny.
Family.
Anna Leopoldovna had the following children:
- Ivan VI (1740–1764) (reigning Emperor 1740-1741)
- Catherine Antonovna of Brunswick (1741–1807) (released to house arrest in Horsens in Denmark in 1780)
- Elizabeth Antonovna of Brunswick (1743–1782) (released to house arrest in Horsens in Denmark in 1780)
- Peter Antonovich of Brunswick (1745–1798) (released to house arrest in Horsens in Denmark in 1780)
- Alexei Antonovich