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RUSSIA -IVAN VI

(28/10/1740-06/12/1741)

Ivan VI was born in Saint Petersburg on August 23, 1740 and died on July 16, 1764 and was Emperor of Russia from 1740 to 1741. He is the son of Anna Leopoldovna and Antoine-Ulrich of Brünswick-Wolfenbüttel, and is designated as heir to the throne by his great-aunt Tsarina Anna Ivanovna. He was proclaimed emperor on October 17, 1740, under the regency of Count Ernst Johann von Biron, a former favorite of Anna Ivanovna; he was however removed from power on the following November 9 and Ivan's mother, Anna Leopoldovna, was proclaimed regent until her son reached the age of majority.. Anna Leopoldovna lets ministers rule, including Munnich's Field Marshal Burckhardt. This one enacts a Regulation of the factories fixing the relations between the owners and their workmen and regulating the day of work.. Nevertheless, dissensions appear between the ministers, compromising the stability and the credit of the government; moreover, the Russian nobility reproaches the regent for the too Germanic character of her entourage: an anti-German national feeling reappears. Public opinion turns to Elisabeth Petrovna, daughter of Peter the Great and considered more "Russian" than Anna Leopoldovna. On December 6, 1741, a military coup removed Ivan VI and his mother from the throne.. Anna Leopoldovna and her husband's family are imprisoned in Kholmogory. Anna Leopoldovna died there in 1746 and Ivan was then locked up in the Shlisselburg fortress, under the name of "Prisoner number 1".. In 1764, an attempted coup was directed against Empress Catherine II, then reigning, in order to restore Ivan VI, "the man in the iron mask", to the throne: he was then assassinated by one of his jailers. His remains were identified in 2010 by Russian archaeologists in a 200-year-old coffin outside the Church of the Assumption in Kholmogory. .