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What if Peter II of Russia was educated by his grandfather Peter I the Great? If I'm not wrong Peter the Great was notoriously mercurial; is it possible that he would have taken to raising the boy himself as some sort of "penance" for killing his own son?

With Peter II's death the direct male line of the Romanov's ended. Following Catherine I's death, he ascended to the throne but was kept under the influence of many members of the nobility and led a leisurely lifestyle, eventually dying of smallpox (I think) only three years later.

If he survived his illness, and/or perhaps took a more active interest in affairs of state, and/or drew away from his indolent lifestyle which discouraged hopes that he could be a good ruler, what could have resulted from a longer reign of Peter II?

No one else interested? Maybe I should put this in CaliBoy1990's thread, which I would like to, but I don't even have the most basic ideas regarding this topic.
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