Charlotte (1694-1715) was the wife of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich (1690-1718), and mother of two children Grand duchess Natalia Alexeienva (1714-1728), and Emperor Peter II of Russia (1715-1730) (r.1727-1730). Charlotte was the 2nd daughter of Duke Louis Rudolph of Brunswick-Lunenburg, and his wife Christine Louise. Charlotte grew up in the Polish court of August II, whose consort, Christiane, was a distant relative and Godmother of Charlotte. Growing up in this environment have Charlotte a great education for that time, as well as the opportunity to meet who would be her future husband, Tsarevich Alexei. Politically she was a good match for Alexei, with her sister being married to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. The pair was married on October 25, 1711 making her the first woman to a foreign born Princess, breaking the tradition of Romanovs marrying from the Russian Nobility. Charlotte was the only Romanov consort to keep her own Lutheran religion, though her children had to be raised Orthodox. Charlotte lived quite an isolated love at court, only enjoying the company of her father-in-law. The first years of marriage to Alexei were happy, until his drinking began to strain their relationship, and caused him to openly take a mistress. Still Charlotte gave him two children, Natalia and Peter. Charlotte died only a few days after the birth of her son Peter. After her death, her children were left to fend fir themselves, as their father had no interest in raising, or even caring for them. Some of the places and people were abusive towards the children causing them to only care about one another. Peter later became Emperor of Russia after the death if his step grandmother Empress Catherine I in 1727, he only lived for three more years dying at the age of 14. Natalia was always by her brother's side constantly caring for him until her early death in 1728 leaving her brother alone.