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Ivan VI - Emperor of All Russia (1740-1741) from the Romanov dynasty.
After the death of Empress Anna Ioannovna, the son of Anna
Leopoldovna (Anna Ioannovna's niece), two-month-old Ivan Antonovich was proclaimed emperor under the regency of Duke Biron.
Formally, he reigned for the first year of his life under the regency of first Biron, and then his own mother Anna Leopoldovna. The infant emperor was overthrown by Elizabeth Petrovna, spent almost all his life in solitary confinement and already in the reign of Catherine II was killed by guards at the age of 23 while trying to free him.
After the death of Empress Anna Ioannovna, the son of Anna
Leopoldovna (Anna Ioannovna's niece), two-month-old Ivan Antonovich was proclaimed emperor under the regency of Duke Biron.
Formally, he reigned for the first year of his life under the regency of first Biron, and then his own mother Anna Leopoldovna. The infant emperor was overthrown by Elizabeth Petrovna, spent almost all his life in solitary confinement and already in the reign of Catherine II was killed by guards at the age of 23 while trying to free him.
IVAN VI
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1740-1764
Years of government: 1740-1741 гг.
Anna Leopoldovna, Duke Biron, Juliana Mengden (left to right)
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- The reign of Ivan Antonovich was only 404 days. The burial place of the deposed emperor was still unknown.
- In Russia, Anna Leopoldovna lived in the house of her grandmother, Tsarina Praskovya Fyodorovna, then in Moscow, then in St. Petersburg, then in the vicinity of the capitals.
- Juliana Mengden (1719 - 1787) was a lady-in-waiting and the closest friend of the ruler Anna Leopoldovna. In the 1740s, Sklyaev's house, the St. Petersburg house of Biron, was rebuilt for Juliana Mengden. (Dvortsovaya nab., 30).
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Palace of Peter I in the Summer Garden (Anna Leopoldovna's residence)
