Peter III was the Emperor of Russia who served for merely six months, before he was deposed in 1762. Born to Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and Anna Petrovna, he was the only child of the couple. He was the grandson of two Emperors, Peter the Great of Russia and Charles XII of Sweden. Upon the death of his parents, Peter was groomed to take up the Swedish throne in future. However, destiny had other plans for him. At the age of 14, he was taken to Russia by his aunt who pronounced him as her successor. Peter’s pro-Prussian policies and lack of Russian language made him unpopular amongst his subjects who tagged him as a betrayer for signing of the peace treaty. His personality and policies did not go well with the aristocrats and nobility who feared his modernized ways and techniques. It was due to his unpopularity that he was deposed from the seat of the Emperor. Astonishingly, it was his wife, Catherine who was the mastermind behind the conspiracy to depose him. It is rumoured that she not just conspired his dethronement but his assassination as well