Yekaterina I of Russia
Born Marta Helena Skawrońska, later russianized as Marfa Samuilovna Skavronskaya. Declared co-ruler by her husband Peter I in 1724. When he died without naming a successor, she succeeded him as Empress Yekaterina I of All the Russians.
Daughter of Samuel Skawronski, a Polish peasant and Dorothea Hahn
Born: Rengen, Estonia 5. Apr 1684
Married: Allegedly, 1707, officially St. Petersburg 19. Feb 1712 Pyotr I Tsar of All Russia (1672-1725), son of Aleksey Mikhailovich, Tsar of All Russia (1629-1676) by his second wife Natalya Kirillovna Naryshkina (1651-1694)
Issue:
[Pavel Petrovich (1704-1707), disputed]
[Pyotr Petrovich (1705-1707), disputed]
Yekaterina Petrovna Tsarevna of Russia (1707-1708)
Anna Petrovna Grand Duchess of Russia (1708-1728) m. 1725 Karl Friedrich Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1700-1739)
Yelisavyeta Petrovna, Empress of All the Russians in 1741 (1709-1762) m. 1750 Aleksey Grigoryevitch Rozum, cr. Reichgraf Razumovsky in 1744 (1709-1771)
Natalya Petrovna Tsarevna of Russia (1713-1715)
Margarita Petrovna Tsarevna of Russia (1714-1715)
Pyotr Petrovich Tsarevich of Russia (1715-1719)
Natalya Petrovna Grand Duchess of Russia (1718-1725)
Died: Saint Petersburg 17. May 1727 from an abscess of the lungs
Buried: St Peter and St Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg
Detlev Schwennicke “Europäische Stammtafeln. Neue Folge” Vol II; Vittorio Klostermann, 2005; www.ru.wikipedia.org