Peter II
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1715 – 1730 · 15 years · Moscow · Eastern Europe & Russia
Reign: 1727 – 1730 (Rus and Russia)
Grandson of Peter the Great, he took the throne at eleven. He toppled Menshikov and moved the court to Moscow, where the Dolgorukov princes held sway; he died of smallpox at fourteen, ending the male Romanov line.
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