Empress Natalia

I think a seriously neglected POD exists in 18c Russia. Natalia Alexeïevna was the daughter of Pyotr Velikiy's unloved son, Alexei Petrovich. She died at the age of 14 in 1728. However, varying sources say that she exerted a calming/soothing influence on her brother, Pyotr II. Say she had survived, and come 1730 when her brother dies, she ascends as Empress. Are we seeing someone more like Anna Ivanovna or as indolent as Anna Leopoldovna, or even as driven and ambitious as Ekaterina Velikaya?

Thoughts?
 
This is a really cool timeline from what google translate allows me to read.

But, I should imagine Prussia would find OTL Anna Leopoldovna a better match in this scenario than the Empress. It could lead to all sorts of weird and wonderful turnouts as far as the succession for both countries involved.

Also, Anna Leopoldovna was actually considered for Fritz. I can't remember who it was who offered the match, but I think it was also before Anna Ivanovna died, or refused to remarry (whoever proposed it, knew Biren from school/the army or something like that).

Any ideas as to who might make a decent alternative husband for Natalia? Foreign and domestic?

And what would she do about the princesses shagging guardsmen I wonder? She seems to have had a rather high moral code, so no death by stallion for her, but I wonder if (in order to give her court a sense of propriety) she won't still marry Anna I., Anna L. and Elizabeth P. off?
 
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