| |
| | Ivan VI of Russia White Sea Kholmogory December 6 Russian July 5 Death June Moscow Schlisselburg Berlin (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Thirteen months later a Coup d'?t placed the tsarevna Elizabeth on the throne (December 6, 1741), and Ivan and his family were imprisoned in the fortress of Dunamunde (Ust-Dvinsk) (December 13, 1742) after a preliminary detention at Riga, from whence the new empress had at first decided to send them home to Brunswick. |
 | | In June 1744 they transferred to Kholmogory on the White Sea, where Ivan, isolated from his family, and seeing nobody but his gaoler, remained for the next twelve years. |
 | | Rumours of his confinement at Kholmogory having leaked out, he was secretly transferred to the fortress of Schlisselburg (1756), where he was still more rigorously guarded, the very commandant of the fortress not knowing the identity of "a certain arrestant". |
| en.powerwissen.com /jj15fzAkcnBiJFNfM9Q7Cg%3D%3D_Ivan_VI_of_Russia.html (660 words) |
|