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Grand Duke Alexander Petrovich
Born:
1691, Preobrazhenskoe
Died:
1692, Moscow
Grand Duke Alexander Petrovich was the second child and second son of Peter the Great and Eudoxia Lopukhina. He was born in Preobrazhenskoe on 3 October 1691 and baptised on 1 November 1691. His godparents were a monk from the St Sergius Monastery of the Trinity and his aunt Natalia. Died in Moscow on 13 May 1692 and buried in the Archangel Cathedral.
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