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A '''bridge railing style''' is a design that was used on [[bridges]]. |
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[[Image:Ivan6russia1740.jpg|thumb|Ivan VI with his mother [[Anna Leopoldovna]]]] |
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== Ascension to the throne == |
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'''Ivan VI of Russia''' (Иоанн Антонович), ([[August 23]], [[1740]] - [[July 16]], [[1764]]), reigned as Emperor of [[Russia]] 1740 - [[1741]], was the son of Prince [[Antony Ulrich]] of [[Brunswick-Lüneburg]] and of the princess [[Anna Leopoldovna]] of [[Mecklenburg]]. His great-aunt the empress [[Anna I of Russia]] adopted the eight-week-old boy and declared him her successor on 5 October 1740. On the death of Anna ([[17 October]] of the [[Julian Calendar]]/[[28 October]] of the [[Gregorian Calendar]], [[1740]]) Ivan was proclaimed emperor, and on the following day [[Ernst Johann von Biron]], duke of [[Courland]], became regent. On the fall of Biron (November 8th), the regency passed to the baby tsar’s mother, though the capable vice-chancellor, [[Andrei Osterman]] conducted the government. |
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== Fall from the Throne and Imprisonment == |
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Thirteen months later a [[Coup d'état]] placed the tsarevna [[Elizabeth of Russia | Elizabeth]] on the throne ([[December 6]], 1741), and Ivan and his family were imprisoned in the fortress of Dunamunde ([[Ust-Dvinsk]]) ([[December 13]], [[1742]]) after a preliminary detention at [[Riga]], from whence the new empress had at first decided to send them home to Brunswick. In [[June]] [[1744]] they transferred to [[Kholmogory]] on the [[White Sea]], where Ivan, isolated from his family, and seeing nobody but his gaoler, remained for the next twelve years. Rumours of his confinement at Kholmogory having leaked out, he was secretly transferred to the fortress of [[Schlisselburg]] ([[1756]]), where he was still more rigorously guarded, the very commandant of the fortress not knowing the identity of "a certain arrestant". |
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On the accession of [[Peter III of Russia | Peter III]] ([[1762]]) the condition of the unfortunate prisoner seemed about to improve, for the kind-hearted emperor visited and sympathised with him; but Peter himself lost [[ power (sociology) | power]] a few weeks later. In the instructions sent to Ivan’s guardian, Prince Churmtyev, the latter received orders to chain up his charge, and even to [[scourge]] him should he become refractory. |
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== Death == |
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On the accession of [[Catherine II of Russia | Catherine II]] (summer [[1762]]) still more stringent orders were sent to the officer in charge of "the nameless one". If any attempt were made from outside to release him, the prisoner was to be put to death; in no circumstances was he to be delivered alive into anyone’s hands, even if his deliverers produced the empress’s own sign manual authorising his release. By this time, twenty years of solitary confinement had disturbed Ivan’s mental equilibrium, though he does not seem to have been actually insane. Nevertheless, despite the mystery surrounding him, he was well aware of his imperial origin, and always called himself ''gosudar'' (sovereign). Though instructions had been given to keep him ignorant, he had been taught his letters and could read his Bible. Nor could his residence at Schlusselburg remain concealed for ever, and its discovery was the cause of his ruin. A sub-lieutenant of the garrison, Vasily Mirovich, found out about him, and formed a plan for freeing and proclaiming him emperor. At midnight on [[July 5]], [[1764]], Mirovich won over some of the garrison, arrested the commandant, Berednikov, and demanded the delivery of Ivan, whom his gaolers on orders of their commander Lt. Chekin, murdered there and then, in obedience to the secret instructions already in their possession. |
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* R. Nisbet Bain, ''The Pupils of Peter the Great'' ([[London]], [[1897]]) |
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* M. Semevsky, ''Ivan VI Antonov’ich'' (in Russian) ([[St. Petersburg]], [[1866]]) |
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* A. Bruckner, ''The Emperor Ivan VI and his Family'' (in [[Russian language|Russian]]) ([[Moscow]] [[1874]]) |
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* V. A. Bilbasov, ''Geschichte Catherine II'' (vol. ii., [[Berlin]], [[1891]]—[[1893]]). |
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[[pl:Iwan VI Antonowicz]] |
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Revision as of 03:37, 8 April 2005
A bridge railing style is a design that was used on bridges.