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What European country was successfully ruled by an impostor who pretended to be the surviving Emperor Peter III?

After the palace coup, as a result of which Emperor Peter III was killed, and power went to his wife Catherine II, many impostors appeared, declaring themselves a miraculously saved monarch. In Russia, historians counted about forty of them, and the most famous was Emelyan Pugachev. However, neither he nor other Russian impostors achieved success, but there were cases of the appearance of false Peters abroad. In 1766, the missing emperor was "recognized" in a Montenegrin village healer, and the elders asked him to ascend the throne of this country. The healer agreed that he was Peter III, although he ruled under the name of Stefan the Small. While on the throne, Stephen stopped internecine strife in the state, successfully defended himself from the Venetians and Turks, even established good relations with Russia, but was killed in 1773.

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