![]() ![]() ![]() "He was glad to see her, because she was German and he was German," Massie says. Peter played with little toy soldiers all the time - and wasn't particularly interested in his wife. "He was childish into his late adolescence, and he was strange throughout his life." "Peter was a very strange man, to put it mildly," Massie says. Her nephew, who became Peter III, was raised in Germany, so Elizabeth reached out to his distant cousin - young, German Catherine - to be Peter's wife, Massie explains. Empress Elizabeth - daughter of Peter the Great - couldn't have children. "That is what makes this such a great story," Massie tells NPR's Scott Simon. So how does a German teenager become the empress of Russia? ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Catherine The Great Subtitle Portrait Of A Woman Author Robert K. ![]()
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