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• Katarzyna I http://genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00006725&tree=LEO

Catherine I (Russian: Екатерина I Алексеевна; Yekaterina I Alekseyevna (born Marta Helena Skowrońska, Latvian: Marta Elena Skavronska, later Marfa Samuilovna Skavronskaya)

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The life of Catherine I was said by Voltaire to be nearly as extraordinary as Peter the Great himself. There are no documents that confirm the ascent of Catherine. The commonly accepted version is that Catherine was born in Ringen (Rõngu), in present-day Estonia. At the time this area was the Swedish province of Livonia. Originally named 'Marta Skowrońska', she was the daughter of Samuel Skowroński, later Samuil Skavronsky, a Latvian peasant of Polish origin, most likely a Catholic, and who was already a widower of one Dorothea Hann. Her mother has been listed on at least one site as Elisabeth Moritz, whom her father married at Jakobstadt in 1680. There is some speculation that her parents were runaway serfs. Some sources state her father was a gravedigger. Samuil and her mother died of plague around 1684 or 1685, leaving five children. She was taken by an aunt who sent her to be raised by Ernst Glück, the Lutheran pastor and educator who first translated the Bible into Latvian, in Marienburg. She was essentially a house servant. No effort was made to teach her to read and she remained illiterate throughout her life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_I_of_Russia

Johann Ernst Glück (Latvian: Ernsts Gliks; 10 November 1654 – 5 May 1705) was a German translator and Lutheran theologian active in Livonia, which is now in Latvia.

Glück was born in Wettin as the son of a pastor. After attending the Latin school of Altenburg, he studied theology, rhetoric, philosophy, geometry, history, geography, and Latin at Wittenberg and Jena.

Glück is renowned for translating the Holy Bible into the Latvian language, which he carried out in its entirety in Marienburg (Alūksne) in Livonia, in the building now the Alūksne Museum, established to honour his work. He also founded the first Latvian language schools in Livonia in 1683. He died in Moscow.

He had four daughters, a son, and a foster-daughter Marta Skavronska who married Peter I and is mainly known as Catherine I. From 1725 until 1727 she was empress of Russian Empire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Gl%C3%BCck

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{geni:about_me} Царица Российская с 19 февраля 1712 года по 20 октября 1721 года. Первая Императрица и Самодержица Всероссийская с 28 января 1725 года по 6 мая 1727 года.

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Catherine I, real name Marta Skavronskaya (1682?-1727), empress of Russia (1725-27). Of peasant origin, she was born in Jakobstadt (now Jèkabpils, Latvia) but was orphaned early in life and reared by a pastor in Marienburg (now Malbork, Poland). When the Russians captured Marienburg in 1702, she was taken prisoner by the Russian commander, who sold her to Prince Aleksandr Menshikov (1673-1729), a close adviser of Peter the Great. She soon became Peter's mistress and most influential counselor. Peter, who had divorced his first wife in 1699, married Catherine in 1712. After his son Alexis (1690-1718) died, Peter issued an ukaz (imperial order) declaring his right to name his own successor; he died in 1725 without doing so. Catherine, however, had been crowned empress-consort in 1724, and on Peter's death she was proclaimed his successor; the claims of Alexis's son (later Peter III) were bypassed. Shrewd and courageous, Catherine defended Peter's advisers against his rages, and in her own reign she established, and concentrated power in, the supreme privy council. Two of her eight children by Peter survived, Anna (mother of Peter III) and Elizabeth Petrovna (empress 1741-62).

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LATER "CATHERINE/YEKATERINA I"; TSARESS/EMPRESS 1725-1727

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Catherine I of Russia (1683-1727) aka Martha Skavronskaya - daughter of a Lithuanian peasant named Skavronsky who died when she was a child. She became a servant in the home of Pastor Gluck of Marienburg district, and then married a Swedish dragoon named Johan. When the Swedes evacuated Marienburg, she became a prisoner of war of Marhsal Sheremetev, who sold her to Prince Menshikov. At his home Martha became the lover and mistress of Peter the Great. She and Peter were later married. She joined the Russian Orthodox church and was baptised Catherine Alexeyevna, the tsarevich Alexius was her Godfather. After Peter divorced his 1st wife, Eudoxia, they were married in 1711. She accompanied him during his war campaigns, and he attributed his success to her courage and sang-froid. She acted as a buffer between him and his advisors and his rages. She was proclaimed Peter's successor, and solomenly crowned empress-consort in the Upensky cathedral at Moscow on 7 May 1724. Her husband died a few months later, Jan 28, 1725. Though illiterate, she was uncommonly shrewd, sensisble, good-tempered, but lashishly extravagant. She died 16 May 1727.

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She was of peasant origin and orphaned. She was taken prisoner by a Russian commander and sold to an advisor to Peter, becoming his mistress and most influential counselor. Peter, having divorced his first wife in 1699, married Catherine in 1712. Catherine was shrewd and courageous; In time, succeeding Peter as Empress of Russia having been crowned Empress-consort 1724. They would have 8 children, with 2 of them surviving: Anna and Elizabeth Petrovna, later Empress 1741-1762.

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mer berömd som Katarina I

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katarina_I_av_Ryssland

Wikipedian ruostsinkielisessä versiossa on hyvin todentuntuinen kirjoitus Marta Skavronskajan ensimmäisestä aviomiehestä, joka kirjoituksen mukaan oli Johan Kruse (Cruhs), ruotsalainen sotilas, ratsumies Liivinmaan aatelislippueessa mennessän naimisiin 1702 Marieburgissa Liivinmaalla Marta Skavronskajan kanssa.

[Allaolevan huomautuksen kirjoitti Raila Lyytikäinen]
Tieto siitä, että Katarina I olisi Johan Argillanderin tyttären Katarinan pojantytär voi olla legendaa (tai sitten ei). Enemmän tästä voi lukea seuraavista lähteistä:
Paikkala Jarmo: Pappi, lukkari, talonpoika I, II - Kauhanen-Argillander_Skopa- suku, Kauhasen sukuseura ry 1989, sivut 22-24
Juhan suku-uutiset-blogi 5.1.2009: Suomalainen keisarinna Kauhanen?
https://juhansuku.blogspot.com/2009/01/suomalainen-keisarinna-kauha...

Kuopio maaseurakunta syntyneet, 1690-1751 https://www.sukuhistoria.fi/sshy/kirjat/Kirkonkirjat/kuopio/syntyne...

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• Katarzyna I http://genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00006725&tree=LEO

Catherine I (Russian: Екатерина I Алексеевна; Yekaterina I Alekseyevna (born Marta Helena Skowrońska, Latvian: Marta Elena Skavronska, later Marfa Samuilovna Skavronskaya)

http://runeberg.org/tieto/4/0279.html

Marta of Muscovy: The Fabulous Life of Russia's First Empress... (FreeGoogleE-book)

Links

• The Peerage
• Geneall
• Empress of Russia Reign 1725-1727 Predecessor: Peter I Successor: Peter II
• Wikipedia
• The real history of Rõngu Marta (in Estonian) - as she was born in Governorate of Livonia, in parrish Rõngu kihelkond (Kirchspiel Ringen) as serf's daughter, later czar's court rewrote her genealogy to fit into blue-blooded

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The life of Catherine I was said by Voltaire to be nearly as extraordinary as Peter the Great himself. There are no documents that confirm the ascent of Catherine. The commonly accepted version is that Catherine was born in Ringen (Rõngu), in present-day Estonia. At the time this area was the Swedish province of Livonia. Originally named 'Marta Skowrońska', she was the daughter of Samuel Skowroński, later Samuil Skavronsky, a Latvian peasant of Polish origin, most likely a Catholic, and who was already a widower of one Dorothea Hann. Her mother has been listed on at least one site as Elisabeth Moritz, whom her father married at Jakobstadt in 1680. There is some speculation that her parents were runaway serfs. Some sources state her father was a gravedigger. Samuil and her mother died of plague around 1684 or 1685, leaving five children. She was taken by an aunt who sent her to be raised by Ernst Glück, the Lutheran pastor and educator who first translated the Bible into Latvian, in Marienburg. She was essentially a house servant. No effort was made to teach her to read and she remained illiterate throughout her life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_I_of_Russia

Johann Ernst Glück (Latvian: Ernsts Gliks; 10 November 1654 – 5 May 1705) was a German translator and Lutheran theologian active in Livonia, which is now in Latvia.

Glück was born in Wettin as the son of a pastor. After attending the Latin school of Altenburg, he studied theology, rhetoric, philosophy, geometry, history, geography, and Latin at Wittenberg and Jena.

Glück is renowned for translating the Holy Bible into the Latvian language, which he carried out in its entirety in Marienburg (Alūksne) in Livonia, in the building now the Alūksne Museum, established to honour his work. He also founded the first Latvian language schools in Livonia in 1683. He died in Moscow.

He had four daughters, a son, and a foster-daughter Marta Skavronska who married Peter I and is mainly known as Catherine I. From 1725 until 1727 she was empress of Russian Empire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Gl%C3%BCck

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{geni:about_me} Царица Российская с 19 февраля 1712 года по 20 октября 1721 года. Первая Императрица и Самодержица Всероссийская с 28 января 1725 года по 6 мая 1727 года.

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{geni:hair_color} Blond

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{geni:eye_color} Brown

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Catherine I, real name Marta Skavronskaya (1682?-1727), empress of Russia (1725-27). Of peasant origin, she was born in Jakobstadt (now Jèkabpils, Latvia) but was orphaned early in life and reared by a pastor in Marienburg (now Malbork, Poland). When the Russians captured Marienburg in 1702, she was taken prisoner by the Russian commander, who sold her to Prince Aleksandr Menshikov (1673-1729), a close adviser of Peter the Great. She soon became Peter's mistress and most influential counselor. Peter, who had divorced his first wife in 1699, married Catherine in 1712. After his son Alexis (1690-1718) died, Peter issued an ukaz (imperial order) declaring his right to name his own successor; he died in 1725 without doing so. Catherine, however, had been crowned empress-consort in 1724, and on Peter's death she was proclaimed his successor; the claims of Alexis's son (later Peter III) were bypassed. Shrewd and courageous, Catherine defended Peter's advisers against his rages, and in her own reign she established, and concentrated power in, the supreme privy council. Two of her eight children by Peter survived, Anna (mother of Peter III) and Elizabeth Petrovna (empress 1741-62).

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LATER "CATHERINE/YEKATERINA I"; TSARESS/EMPRESS 1725-1727

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Catherine I of Russia (1683-1727) aka Martha Skavronskaya - daughter of a Lithuanian peasant named Skavronsky who died when she was a child. She became a servant in the home of Pastor Gluck of Marienburg district, and then married a Swedish dragoon named Johan. When the Swedes evacuated Marienburg, she became a prisoner of war of Marhsal Sheremetev, who sold her to Prince Menshikov. At his home Martha became the lover and mistress of Peter the Great. She and Peter were later married. She joined the Russian Orthodox church and was baptised Catherine Alexeyevna, the tsarevich Alexius was her Godfather. After Peter divorced his 1st wife, Eudoxia, they were married in 1711. She accompanied him during his war campaigns, and he attributed his success to her courage and sang-froid. She acted as a buffer between him and his advisors and his rages. She was proclaimed Peter's successor, and solomenly crowned empress-consort in the Upensky cathedral at Moscow on 7 May 1724. Her husband died a few months later, Jan 28, 1725. Though illiterate, she was uncommonly shrewd, sensisble, good-tempered, but lashishly extravagant. She died 16 May 1727.

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She was of peasant origin and orphaned. She was taken prisoner by a Russian commander and sold to an advisor to Peter, becoming his mistress and most influential counselor. Peter, having divorced his first wife in 1699, married Catherine in 1712. Catherine was shrewd and courageous; In time, succeeding Peter as Empress of Russia having been crowned Empress-consort 1724. They would have 8 children, with 2 of them surviving: Anna and Elizabeth Petrovna, later Empress 1741-1762.

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mer berömd som Katarina I

Екатери́на I (Ма́рта Самуи́ловна Скавро́нская, в браке Крузе; после принятия православия Екатери́на Алексе́евна Миха́йлова; 5 [15] апреля 1684 — 6 [17] мая 1727, Санкт-Петербург) — российская императрица с 1721 года (как супруга царствующего императора), с 1725 года как правящая государыня; вторая жена Петра I, мать императрицы Елизаветы Петровны.

В её честь Петром I учреждён орден Святой Екатерины (1713) и назван город Екатеринбург на Урале (1723). Имя Екатерины I носит также Екатерининский дворец в Царском Селе (построенный при её дочери Елизавете Петровне).