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Oct 4, 2022 · “[The Ice Palace wedding] is just part of the bizarre nature of [Anna’s] reign and of her personality: vindictive, cruel, idle,” says history writer Michael Farquhar, author of Secret Lives ...
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Sep 9, 2021 · by Kurt Readman September 9, 2021. 1. Anna Ivanovna, Empress regnant of Russia from 1730-1740 has been remembered by history as a cruel and mad woman. Her period in control has been referred to as the dark era of Russia, a period when a severe and universally unpopular government dictated by her personality flaws led to questionable acts ...
- A Widowed Queen
- From Prince to Fool
- Anna’s Ice Palace
- The Pearl Necklace
Anna Ivanovna, born in 1693 to Czar Ivan V, had a complicated love life. Like most young girls, especially young girls of royalty, she was beyond excited when her family married her off to Frederick William, the Duke of Courland. At the tender age of seventeen, she wrote the Duke that “nothing could delight me more than to hear your declaration of ...
After Anna cancelled Mikhail’s wedding, the Italian woman was either exiled or deported. Although Mikhail was devastated, the czarina did not take pity on him. Upon his return to Petersburg, she stripped him of his land and title and made him her new fool. From here on out, Mikhail was to be referred to by his first name and his first name only. Ev...
This palace was, as you might have guessed, made entirely of ice. It was a record-breakingly cold winter in Russia that year, and the mighty Neva River had completely frozen over. On Anna’s orders, military personnel spent days hauling blocks of ice from the riverbank. These were then used to build the castle. The end result of this seemingly impos...
With little to no narrative tinkering involved, the story of the ice palace and the jealous queen who built it seems to unfold much like something from a fairy tale. Fortunately, like any fairy tale, it too has a happy ending. As night settled over Petersburg, it did not take long for the imprisoned Mikhail to fall ill. His clown clothes might have...
Nov 13, 2015 · The 18 th-century Russian Empress Anna Ivanovna. Born in 1693, Anna was the daughter of Czar Ivan V, who is often referred to as “Ivan the Ignorant.” This descriptor makes him sound more ...
The Ice House ( Russian: Ледяной дом) was an palace built of ice in the winter of 1739–40 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The palace and the surrounding festivities were part of the celebration of Russia's victory over the Ottoman Empire. The Empress Anna Ivanovna ordered Alexis Tatishchev, a court functionary, to construct it on the ...
Early life. Anna was born in Moscow as the daughter of Tsar Ivan V by his wife Praskovia Saltykova.Ivan V was co-ruler of Russia along with his younger half-brother Peter the Great, but he was mentally disabled and reportedly had limited capacity of administering the country effectively, and Peter effectively ruled alone.
Mar 18, 2021 · Through an unlikely series of events, however, Anna Ivanovna became the Empress of Russia. She came to the throne embittered, lonely, and vindictive. Her 10-year reign is considered a “dark era” in Russian history — and included an elaborate ice palace meant to humiliate, torture, and kill a nobleman she didn’t like.
