Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna of Russia

Anna Leopoldovna, actually Elisabeth Katharina Christine Duchess of Mecklenburg ( Schwerin ) ( born December 18, 1718, Rostock, † March 18, 1746 in Kholmogory on the Dvina ) was by marriage Princess of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel, and from 1740 to 1741 as Grand Duchess Regent of the Russian Empire. As a granddaughter of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, she was a maternal indirect successor to the Russian Tsar throne.

Anna Leopoldovna was a daughter of Duke Charles Leopold of Mecklenburg and his third wife Catherine Ivanovna, sister of Empress Anna Ivanovna. Her mother left her husband in 1722 and returned to Russia, where Elisabeth Katharina Christine grew up. The name Anna Leopoldovna she took during her facing downgrading to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1732. 1739 she was married to Saint Petersburg with Prince Anton Ulrich of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel. In 1740, she gave birth to a son, Ivan, who was appointed by the Tsarina at the instigation of her favorites Ernst Johann von Biron as his successor on the throne tsar, thereby allowing Biron as regent for the minor.

After Biron, however - after Tsarina Anna's death - was overthrown on 19 November by Field Marshal Munnich in agreement with Anna Leopoldovna, declared himself this, now under the title of a Grand Duchess, as regent of her minor son. They appointed Munnich first prime minister, but soon fell out with him, as a result, he resigned his office on March 13 in 1741.

The regent showed their position not grown, dealt very little with the affairs of state and maintained a love affair with the Saxon envoy Karl Moritz to Lynar they had become engaged to a relative Münnichs sham. It soon formed a conspiracy with the aim of Anna's half- aunt 2nd degree (ie the half- cousin of her mother ) and daughter of Peter the Great, Elizabeth Petrovna, to gain the Russian throne. The coup was in the night of 5 to 6 December 1741 - completed by the Life Guards regiment Preobraschensker and Elisabeth Petrovna as Elizabeth I ascended the throne of the Russian Tsar, while Anna Leopoldovna with her husband and their children first - with financial support from France was brought to Riga, then exiled to Kholmogory on the Dvina. Here she died on March 18, 1746 after the birth of her fifth child. Her son, the " unfortunate Czar " Ivan VI. , Was launched in 1756 by key castle and murdered there in 1764. Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig in 1774 was following her to the grave.

Progeny

  • Ivan VI. (1740-1764)
  • Catherine (1741-1807)
  • Elisabeth (1743-1782)
  • Peter (1745-1798)
  • Alexei (1746-1787)
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