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Anna Leopoldovna was born in Rostock on 7 October 1718. She was the daughter of Duke Carl Leopold of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Ekaterina Ioannovna, elder sister of Anna Ioannovna and niece of Peter th...
Tsarevna Sophia Alexeyevna was the sixth child and fourth daughter of Alexis Mikhailovich and Maria Miloslavskaya. She was born in Moscow on 17 September 1657. She received an excellent education fro...