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The Life of Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna, Princess of Oldenburg
On December 27, 1812, a young man called Prince George Petrovich Oldenburgsky, died in Tver at the age of twenty-eight. He had been born Peter Frederick George, a younger son of Peter I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, but went by the name George, and in the way of younger sons, understood that he had little chance of inheriting the Oldenburg dukedom and would…
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