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  Anna Leopoldovna - LoveToKnow 1911
ANNA LEOPOLDOVNA, sometimes called Anna Carlovna (1718-1746), regent of Russia for a few months during the minority of her son Ivan, was the daughter of Catherine, sister of the empress Anne, and Charles Leopold, duke of MecklenburgSchwerin.
She then assumed the regency, and took the title of grand-duchess, but she knew little of the character of the people with whom she had to deal, was utterly ignorant of the approved Russian mode of government, and speedily quarrelled with her principal supporters.
Anna and her husband were banished to a small island in the river Dvina, where on the 18th of March 1746 she died in childbed.
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 Anna Leopoldovna Information
Anna Leopoldovna (А́нна Леопо́льдовна) (1718 – 18 March, 1746), also known as Anna Karlovna (А́нна Ка́рловна), regent of Russia for a few months (1740 - 1741) during the minority of her baby son Ivan, was the daughter of Catherine (sister of the empress Anne) and of Charles Leopold, the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
She then assumed the regency, and took the title of Grand-Duchess, but she knew little of the character of the people with whom she had to deal, knew even less of the conventions and politics of Russian government, and speedily quarrelled with her principal supporters.
Anna eventually died on 18 March 1746 during childbirth.
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 State and Power in Russia
Therefore Anna made a very clever 'move of the knight": in 1739 she married her niece (the daughter of sister Catherine-Elizabeth-Christina, who was named in orthodoxy "Anna" and later became Anna Leopoldovna Meklenburgskaya) to prince Anton-Ulrich-Braunschweig-Luneburgsky, hoping, that this marriage would give the future successor to the throne.
Anna Leopoldovna did not want to marry Anton-Ulrich, as she loved another man, she was weeping during all wedding.
Anna Leopoldovna was buried in Alexandro-Nevskaya lavra without any monument or inscription on the tomb.
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The direct blood ties between the two dynasties arose in the beginning of the XIX century that is firstly due to the appropriation of Royal regalia to the House of Orange.
A square with the monument of Anna Paulovna and one of the streets in The Hague were named after her.
Anna Paulovna is the greatgrandgrandmother of the current Queen Beatrix.
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 Ivan VI of Russia
Ivan VI of Russia, (1740 — 1764), reigned 1740-1741, was the son of Prince Antony Ulrich of Brunswick and of the princess Anna Leopoldovna[?] of Mecklenburg.
His great-aunt the empress Anna I of Russia adopted him and declared him her successor on 5 October 1740, when he was only eight weeks old.
On the fall of Biron (November 8th), the regency passed to the baby tsar’s mother, though the government was in the hands of the capable vice-chancellor, Andrei Osterman.
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Anna is een meisjesnaam, alhoewel afgeleide Anne in Nederland ook wel voor jongens wordt gebruikt.
Anna (or Ti'ana (D'ni: Tee'ahnah/[Ti'ana]), as the D'ni preferred to call her, as it was more convenient for them to pronounce), was Aitrus' wife and the first human to descend to the D'ni city proper.
Anna is a 1987 film which tells the story of a Czech actress, looking for work in New York City, who sees her protege shine while she herself struggles.
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 Anna Leopoldovna - Encyclopedia.com
Anna Leopoldovna or Anna Karlovna, 1718-46, duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, regent of Russia (1740-41); daughter of Charles Leopold, duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and of Catherine, sister of Czarina Anna of Russia.
She married the prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and their son, Ivan VI, succeeded (1740) Anna as czar.
After the deposition of Ivan by Czarina Elizabeth, Anna Leopoldovna and her husband were imprisoned.
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 Anna
Anna, Empress of Russia, second daughter of Tsar Ivan V, Peter the Great's imbecile brother, and Praskovia Saltuikova.
Her girlhood was passed at Ismailovo near Moscow, with her mother, an ignorant, bigoted tsaritsa of the old school, who neglected and even hated her daughters.
The last days of Anne were absorbed by the endeavor to strengthen the position of the heir to the throne, the baby tsarevich Ivan, afterwards Tsar Ivan VI, the son of the empress's niece, Anna Leopoldovna, against the superior claims of her cousin the cesarevna Elizabeth.
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 Russian Brides : Famous Russian women
Anna Ioannovna (Anna I), a daughter of Ivan V and a niece of Peter the Great, ruled Russia from 1730 to 1740.
A niece of Empress Anna (reigned 1730-40), Anna Leopoldovna married a nephew of the Holy Roman emperor Charles VI in 1739 and gave birth to a son, Ivan (Aug. 2 [Aug. 13], 1740), who was named heir to the Russian throne by Empress Anna in 1740, shortly before she died.
Anna Pavlova was born on January 31, 1881 in a suburb of St.
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 Russian Empire - History Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Regent Princess Sophia, Ivan V, Peter I, Catherine I, Peter II, Anna I, regent Biron, regent Princess Anna Leopoldovna, Ivan VI, Elizabeth I, Peter III and Catherine II.
Anna I had also decided that her lover Biron was the perfect one for being the regent.
Anna Akhmatova (Gorenko) was born in Ukraine, but Russian was her native language and she grew up within the Russian culture.
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 The Russian Monarchy   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Son of the niece of Empress Anna Ivanovna (1693-1740), Princess Anna Leopoldovna of Mecklenburg, and Prince Anton Ulrich Braunschweig of Luneburg.
In 1741 as a result of another coup, the sovereign Anna Leopoldovna and the young Emperor Ivan VI Antonovich were dethroned by Crown Princess Elizabeth (1709 -1761), the daughter of Petr I (1672-1725).
Son of Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Carl Friedrich, and Crown Princess Anna Petrovna (1708-1728), grandson of Emperor Petr I (1672 - 1725).
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 AllRefer.com - Anna Leopoldovna (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Anna Leopoldovna, Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biographies
Anna Leopoldovna[An´nu lyA´´upOl´duvnu] Pronunciation Key or Anna Karlovna[kAr´luvnu] Pronunciation Key, 1718–46, duchess of Brunswick-WolfenbUttel, regent of Russia (1740–41); daughter of Charles Leopold, duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and of Catherine, sister of Czarina Anna of Russia.
She married the prince of Brunswick-WolfenbUttel, and their son, Ivan VI, succeeded (1740) Anna as czar.
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 Anna_Leopoldovna, regent of Russia from November 1740 to November 1741
Munnich and Osterman appointed Anna Leopoldovna regent and assumed dominant positions in her government.
But they were unpopular among the Russians, and, when they weakened the administration by quarreling with each other, Anna's major rival, Elizabeth, the daughter of Peter I the Great (reigned 1682-1725), staged a palace revolution (Nov. 25 [Dec. 6], 1741).
Elizabeth imprisoned Anna and her family in 1742 and in 1744 exiled them to Kholmogory, where Anna died.
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 Search Results for "Anna"
Anna Leopoldovna, (an´n lya´pol´dvn) (KEY) or Anna Karlovna (kar´lvn) (KEY), 1718-46, duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, regent of Russia (1740-41); daughter of...
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 Goldbach biography
Peter II died of smallpox in January 1730 and Anna Ivanovna became empress of Russia.
In 1732 Anna moved the court back to St Petersburg and Goldbach returned there and again became active in the Academy as well as being heavily involved with the Russian government.
Anna Ivanovna died in 1740, having named Ivan, the son of her niece Anna Leopoldovna, as her successor with his mother as regent.
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 Ivan VI   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ivan VI Ivan VI was the son of the niece of Empress Anna Ivanovna of Mecklenburg and Anton Ulrich, Duke of Braunschweig.
The reign of Ivan VI and Anna Leopoldovna was extremely short.
The child and his family were exiled first to Riga, then to Rannenborg Castle and finally in 1744 to Kholmogory where, on March 7, 1746, Anna Leopoldovna died.
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 The St. Petersburg Academy
Before long, Peter died, and was succeeded by Anna Ivanovna, grand-niece of Peter I. Anna had lived most of her life in Courland (a German duchy on the Baltic Sea), and was largely disliked by the Russian public.
With Anna's death in 1740, the throne passed to her grand-nephew, Ivan VI, who was only an infant at the time.
Not long after, in December 1741, the Leopoldovna regency was overthrown and Peter I's daughter, Elizabeth, was declared Empress.
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 Russian Lacquer Box - Ivan VI Antonovich   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ivan VI Antonovich (1740-1764) was the son of Anna Leopoldovna (a niece to the former Empress Anna Ivanovna) from her marriage with Prince Anthony-Ulrich Braunschweig.
Anna decided to pass the throne to him because she did not have any children herself.
Within a month, though, Biron was dismissed and banished by the mother of the infant, Anna Leopoldovna, who became the regent.
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 Czar Ivan VI, and his mother grandduchess Anna Leopoldovna
Although Biron was overthrown by the vice-chancellor, Andrei Osterman, and Field Marshal Burkhard Christoph, Count von Münnich, three weeks later, Ivan remained the nominal ruler of Russia, and his mother was installed as regent.
Münnich and Osterman appointed Anna Leopoldovna regent and assumed dominant positions in her government.
Elizabeth imprisoned Anna and her family in 1742 and in 1744 exiled them to Holmogory, where Anna died.
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 Ivan VI of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was born in Saint Petersburg to Prince Antony Ulrich of Brunswick-Lüneburg and the princess Anna Leopoldovna of Mecklenburg.
His great-aunt the empress Anna I of Russia adopted the eight-week-old boy and declared him her successor on 5 October 1740.
On the death of Anna (17 October of the Julian Calendar/28 October of the Gregorian Calendar, 1740) Ivan was proclaimed emperor, and on the following day Ernst Johann von Biron, duke of Courland, became regent.
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 Catherine the Great
Her sister Anna had married the Duke Karl Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp.
When Peter Ulrich was ten years old, his father died, and the claims to the throne of Sweden passed to his son.
In November 1741, Elizabeth seized the throne with the help of the Imperal Guards, overthrowing the Empress Anna Leopoldovna, who was regent for the infant Ivan VI.
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 ANNA LEOPOLDOVNA - Online Information article about ANNA LEOPOLDOVNA
ANNA LEOPOLDOVNA - Online Information article about ANNA LEOPOLDOVNA
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 Elizabeth Petrovna - Project SYW   (Site not responding. Last check: )
However, when the Dolgorukis took control of the government, she was practically banished from court.
During the regency of Anna Leopoldovna, after the death of her cousin Anna Ivanovna, Elizabeth was supposed to take the veil according to the wishes of the Regent.
Then Elizabeth captured Anna Leopoldovna and her children in their beds in the Winter Palace.
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 Anna Leopoldovna - Definition, explanation
Anna Leopoldovna (А́нна Леопо́льдовна) (1718 - 18 March, 1746), also known as Anna Karlovna (А́нна Ка́рловна), regent of Russia for a few months (1740 - 1741) during the minority of her baby son Ivan, was the daughter of Catherine (sister of the empress Anne) and of Charles Leopold, the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
The victorious regime threw the erstwhile baby Tsar Ivan into prison, where he afterwards perished.
Anna Leopoldovna and her husband suffered banishment to a small island in the Northern Dvina river, then to Kholmogory, where on 18 March 1746 she died in childbirth.
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 Zar IvanIV St. Petersburg
November 1740 vollendete seine Mutter, Anna Leopoldovna, einen Gerichtscoup und erklärte sich zur Monarchin Russlands.
Nach der Treue-Schwur der Garde ritt Sie mit den Soldaten zum Winterpalast, wo Anna Leopoldowa eine entfernte Verwandte der Romanow mit ihrem einundhalbjährigem Sohn dem Zaren Iwan VI lebte.
Anna und ihre Familie wurden ins Exil abgeschoben.
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 Amazon.com: "Anna Leopoldovna": Key Phrase page
On August 24, 1740, her niece, Anna Leopoldovna, Princess of Brunswick-WolfenbiittelBevern, had given birth to a son in St. Petersburg.
47 mother, the Princess Anna Leopoldovna, a woman of a remarkably kind and amiable disposition,...
But in 1741, after only a year, Biron was chased out of power by an opposing faction and Anna Leopoldovna, Ivan's mother, became regent.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Anna Leopoldovna (А́нна Леопо́льдовна) (1718 – 18 March, 1746), also known as Anna Karlovna (А́нна Ка́рловна), regent of Russia for a few months (1740 - 1741) during the minority of her baby son Ivan.
She was the daughter of Catherine (sister of Empress Anna) and of Charles Leopold, the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and born as Elisabeth Katharina Christine von Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
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 Anna Leopoldovna - AOL Research & Learn
, 1718–46, duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, regent of Russia (1740–41); daughter of Charles Leopold, duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and of Catherine, sister of Czarina Anna of Russia.
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