Arrival and the Peter III Rumour
- When
- 1766–1767
- Where
- Montenegro
Šćepan arrived in Montenegro in autumn 1766 and spread hints he was the dead Russian emperor Peter III.
The earliest record of Šćepan is his arrival in the village of Maine in the autumn of 1766. Of unclear origins, he became ruler of Montenegro through a rumour that he was in fact the deposed Russian emperor Peter III, who had died several years before Šćepan surfaced in the Balkans. Throughout 1767 he offered vague hints of this supposed identity, and as time went on most of Montenegro became convinced of it, though he never formally proclaimed himself to be Peter.
Sources
- Šćepan Mali Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-23
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