so maybe parental alienation (both Alexeji->Peter and Peter->Alexeij) is going on here?
Oh, definitely, but since A's mother - Eudoxia - was in a monastary, he didn't see much of her, either, after the marriage was over. He was mostly raised by third parties. (Though that wasn't unusual for the nobility, let alone royals, at that time.)
Given that FW favored a very strict form of Protestantism, I don't think he would have been able to make himself believe God would ever forgive him for killing his son, no. Incidentally, while the idea of a daughter or grandddaughter of his ever getting on tohe Prussian throne would have horrified him, in all fairness, he did accept the Pragmatic Sanction when Maria Theresia's Dad asked him to. (And likely would not have broken his word afterwards. Not because he would have considered MT or any woman able to rule but because word of honor, etc.)
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Re: Peter
Date: 2019-09-23 10:00 am (UTC)Oh, definitely, but since A's mother - Eudoxia - was in a monastary, he didn't see much of her, either, after the marriage was over. He was mostly raised by third parties. (Though that wasn't unusual for the nobility, let alone royals, at that time.)
Given that FW favored a very strict form of Protestantism, I don't think he would have been able to make himself believe God would ever forgive him for killing his son, no. Incidentally, while the idea of a daughter or grandddaughter of his ever getting on tohe Prussian throne would have horrified him, in all fairness, he did accept the Pragmatic Sanction when Maria Theresia's Dad asked him to. (And likely would not have broken his word afterwards. Not because he would have considered MT or any woman able to rule but because word of honor, etc.)