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Ivan VI Antonovich ( Russian: Иван VI Антонович; 23 August [ O.S. 12 August] 1740 – 16 July [ O.S. 5 July] 1764), also known as Ioann Antonovich, [a] was an infant emperor of Russia from October 1740 until he was overthrown by his cousin Elizabeth Petrovna in December 1741. He was only two months old when he was proclaimed ...
- 28 October 1740 – 6 December 1741
- Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna of Russia
Ivan VI was an infant emperor of Russia in 1740–41. The son of Prince Anton Ulrich of Braunschweig-Bevern-Lüneburg and Anna Leopoldovna, the niece of Empress Anna (reigned in Russia 1730–40), Ivan Antonovich was named heir to the throne by the empress on Oct. 16 (Oct. 27), 1740, and proclaimed
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Sep 25, 2023 · Ivan VI: The Russian “Man in the Iron Mask”. The 18th century in Russia is known as “the era of palace coups,” and it started with Peter the Great coming into power at the end of the 17th century. Peter the Great came to rule following a brutal series of coups, which ended with Peter and his brother Ivan V co-ruling until Ivan died in 1696.
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Ivan Tvorozhnikov, 1884. Public domain. Follow Russia Beyond on Rumble. The youngest of Russian emperors, Ivan VI, spent most of his life forgotten in solitary confinement in a dank prison. His ...
Jun 3, 2020 · Ivan VI of Russia (Ivan Antonovich) was the youngest Russian tsar in history. He was proclaimed emperor when only two months old, and his 22-year-old mother, Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna, took the title of Regent; but, barely one year of Ivan’s reign had passed before Tsarevna Elisabeth Petrovna (the daughter of Peter the Great) seized the throne.The next years of Brunswick family exile ...
May 23, 2018 · IVAN VI. (1740 – 1764), emperor of Russia, October 28, 1740 to December 6, 1741. Ivan was born in August 1740, the son of Duke Anton-Ulrich of Brunswick and Anna Leopoldovna (1718 – 1746), niece of the childless Empress Anna (reigned 1730 – 1740), who nominated Anna's as yet unborn child as her heir. The infant Ivan succeeded Anna in ...
Ivan VI Antonovich, also known as Ioann Antonovich, was an infant emperor of Russia from October 1740 until he was overthrown by his cousin Elizabeth Petrovna in December 1741. He was only two months old when he was proclaimed emperor and his mother, Anna Leopoldovna, named regent, but the throne was seized in the coup after a year. Ivan and his parents were imprisoned far from the capital ...
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