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: Being tall and well build has always been
: attributed to the Wurttemberg influence of
: Sophia Dorothea/Maria Feodorovna. Peter III
: and Paul I were short and slight in build,
: however Peter's grandfather Peter the Great
: was tall and well build so the genes could
: simply have skipped a few generations. I
: don't believe that Paul was the son of one
: of Catherine the Great's lovers. I think he
: was her husband's. His sister the tsarevna
: Anna Petrovna was most likely the result of
: one of Catherine's affairs. With the birth
: of Paul she had done her main duty as seen
: by the then Empress Elisabeth Petrovna.
I thought Paul was the son of Catherine II (the Great) and Peter III. Anna Petrovna was the daughter of Catherine I and (maybe) Peter the Great and mother of Peter III, husband of Catherine II.
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