DBWI Queen Sophie goes to Russia and not Britain

I was reading a fairly lengthy biography of Queen Sophia of Great Britain and discovered that she was initially designated to be the wife of Karl Peter, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, who is better known of course as Tsar Pyotr III of Russia. After the untimely death of Frederick, Prince of Wales, in 1734, the British-Hanorverian court desperately needed a Protestant princess for his younger brother, William Augustus (later William IV of Great Britain), and Prussia decided to strengthen relations with Britain instead of Russia. The whole thing is quite complicated, but Sophia apparently could have just as easily become Tsarina of Russia instead of Queen of Great Britain.

Would Sophia have had just as big an impact on Russia as she did on Britain and America if it had been the Russian marriage that had gone through? To manage the butterflies, we will assume that Frederick dies on schedule but the marriage to William still falls through for other reasons.
 
Two Germans (okay, Prussians) ruling Russia? Something's going to go wrong....either with court or the people. I don't think the marriage will go well, either, with Pyotr's well-known preference for soldiers. Given Sophie's desire for a crown, she'll convert easily enough; but, wasn't she quite the flirt? She seemed to need the male attention to thrive.

And yeah, I know Pyotr's mom was Russian, but he preferred Germany.....
 
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