Title: Officer's Uniform Description: A picture of an officer's uniform of the Preobrazhenskii Guards of Peter III (Peter Fyodorovitch; February 21, 1728-July 17, 1762), emperor of Russia for six months in 1762; the guards were named after a small village near Moscow, Russia; Peter III was reportedly mentally immature and very pro-Prussian which made him an unpopular leader; assassinated in a conspiracy led by his wife, Catherine II of Russia (AKA: Catherine the Great; May 2, 1729-November 17, 1796) who succeeded him to the throne; Category: Russia Topic: Catherine the Great Keywords: assassinations, eighteenth Century Russia, emperors, empresses, military uniforms of eighteenth century, Preobrazhenskii Guards, Russia. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1875 x 3634 (6.81 MPixels) (1.94) Print Size: 15.9 x 30.8 cm; 6.3 x 12.1 inches File Size: 19.52 MB (20,467,256 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000259206c Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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