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1160:Duke George
1306:Categories
956:References
426:Later life
261:Early life
112:Duke Peter
43:9 May 1784
39:1784-05-09
449:in 1816.
432:Oldenburg
409:Alexander
379:Yaroslavl
188:‹See Tfd›
155:Oldenburg
131:‹See Tfd›
46:Oldenburg
1121:in 1774.
460:Ancestry
436:Napoleon
383:Novgorod
331:Marriage
321:Governor
298:Scotland
229:Augustus
191:German:
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325:Estonia
294:England
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275:regent
271:Lübeck
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161:Father
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417:Peter
309:Dutch
150:House
122:Names
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