She arrives at the Russian court a ... afflicted," referencing his smallpox scarring and possible, much-speculated-over emotional or psychological condition. Peter III had little interest in ...

Her husband Peter III suffered from a heavy smallpox in his childhood – his ... was one of the most beautiful ladies-in-waiting in the Russian court and also engaged to Nikita Panin, the head ...

While the CDC is located on the fringes of bustling Atlanta, the Russian smallpox repository ... cut my teeth working on BSL-4 viruses,” says Peter Jahrling, director of the National Institute ...

It is true that Catherine was betrothed to Peter III of Russia as a ... was an early adopter of smallpox vaccination; and that though German by birth felt Russian in her soul.

heir to the Russian throne. Shortly before their wedding, Peter caught smallpox; he survived but, Catherine wrote, ‘he had become hideous’. He was a sadist too, whose favourite hobby was ...

French King Louis XV and Tsar Peter II of Russia all died of the disease, the latter on the eve of his wedding. Perhaps the most defenseless victims of smallpox were the Aztec and Inca Indians of ...

and the world was declared free of smallpox in 1980. The disease that killed Queen Mary II of England, Tsar Peter II of Russia, King Louis XV of France and hundreds of millions more during the ...