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Feb 7, 1693 - Oct 28, 1740. Anna Ioannovna, also russified as Anna Ivanovna and sometimes anglicized as Anne, served as regent of the duchy of Courland from 1711 until 1730 and then ruled as Empress regnant of Russia from 1730 to 1740. Much of her administration was defined or heavily influenced by actions set in motion by her uncle, Peter the ...
Mar 1, 2019 · Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna was born on 9 December 1757 as the daughter of the future Empress Catherine the Great. Anna was born between 10 and 11 o’clock in the Winter Palace on the Nevsky Prospect with the Empress Elizabeth and Catherine’s husband Peter present. The following day, her birth was announced to the city with a 101 gun salute ...
Young Elizabeth in the 1720s, painted by Ivan Nikitich Nikitin. Elizabeth was born at Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, Russia, on 18 December 1709 ( O.S. ). Her parents were Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia and Catherine. [2] Catherine was the daughter of Samuel Skowroński, a subject of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Anna of Russia is the 503rd most popular politician (up from 525th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Russia (up from 68th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Russian Politician. Anna of Russia was most famous for being the wife of Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia.
Specifically, Empress Anna Ivanovna (r. 1730-40) remains one of the most overlooked and underappreciated sovereigns of the interim between the “Greats”. Understanding Russia’s change in the eighteenth century is to understand the decade-long tenure of the Empress Anna and the ways she mediated the space between past and future.
Anna Sorokin ( Russian: Анна Сорокина; born January 23, 1991), also known as Anna Delvey, is a con artist and fraudster who posed as a wealthy heiress to access upper-class New York social and art scenes from 2013 to 2017. Born to working-class parents in the Soviet Union (now Russia ), Sorokin emigrated from Russia to Germany with ...
Jun 21, 2019 · Anna: Directed by Luc Besson. With Sasha Luss, Helen Mirren, Luke Evans, Cillian Murphy. Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
