Peter II.

Peter II. (ALEXEIEVICH) of Russia, was the sole male representative of Peter the Great, being the son of the unfortunate Alexei (see above), and was born 23d October 1715 at St Petersburg. On the death of the Czarina Catharine I. he ascended the throne (1727). Menschikoff, his guardian, affianced one of his daughters to the youthful czar, but his power was overturned by the Dolgorouki family; and the czar was seized with smallpox, and died at St Petersburg, January 29, 1730.