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Elizabeth Petrovna (1709–1762)
Russian empress who ruled from 1741 to 1761 in a reign marked by Russia's continued development as a major power and an acceleration of Westernization. Name variations: Elizabeth I of Russia; Elizaveta; Yelizaveta. Pronunciation: Pa-TROV-na. Born Elizabeth Petrovna on December 7, 1709 (dates are according to the Julian calendar, in use in Imperial Russia, which was 12 days behind the Georgian calendar) in Kolomenskoye near Moscow, Russia; died in St. Petersburg, Russia, on December 25, 1762; daughter of Peter I the Great (1672–1725), tsar of Russia (r. 1682–1725), and Marta Skovoronski or Skavronska (later Empress Catherine I, 1684–1727); educated by tutors, but only superficially and informally; probably secretly married Aleksei Razumovsky, in 1742 or 1744; no children.
Lived in Moscow and St. Petersburg during her early years; consigned to care and upbringing of the Dowager Empress of Ivan V; named to the Supreme Privy Council in the will of Catherine I (1727); passed over for the throne, retired to the self-exile of her estate (1729); led The eighteenth century was a century of female sovereigns in Russia. For almost seventy years, mighty tsarinas wielded unlimited power over the vast expanses of the Empire. On a cold November day in 1741, a beautiful and high-spirited thirty-two year old princess seized the Imperial throne staging a coup d’état against the regent Anna Leopoldovna. Elizabeth took full advantage of her new power, demonstrating an insatiable appetite for merrymaking. She passed her time in a whirl of palace feasts, masquerades, hunts, and dances. “Laid-back, cheerful and Russian to the core, Empress Elizabeth embodied the gingerbread splendor of the luxurious mid-eighteenth century,” wrote a Russian aristocrat. The pleasure-seeking beauty had a passion for clothing. After her death, her nephew and successor Peter III found fifteen thousand dresses in a wardrobe of her summer palace. But this was not the only legacy she left, and her self-indulgence was never a hindrance to her keen political judgmen Born: Kolomenskoe, Moscow, 19 December 1709 Coming to power as a result of a palace coup, Elizabeth, the second oldest daughter of Peter the Great, proclaimed that her policies would be a continuation and preservation of the achievements of her father. Elizabeth led a fairly modest life during the time that the country was governed alternately by those descendants of Tsar Ivan (her father's brother): Anna Ioannovna and Anna Leopoldovna acting as regent. In the eyes of these two empresses, who had surrounded themselves with foreign nobles, Elizabeth was a clear and present danger, a rival pretender to the Russian throne. The Imperial Guard loved her, believing that she would continue the work of her great father and save the Russian court and Russian service from foreign domination. And so the Guard brought Elizabeth to power … However, nothing at the time indicated that Elizabeth was destined to rule the Russian Empire for the next twenty years. Tsesarevna Elizaveta in f
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Elizabeth I, 1741-1761
Female Sovereign of Russia
Luxury and Splendor
Elizabeth’s Legacy
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Elizabeth
Died: St. Petersburg, 25 December 1761 (5 January 1762)
Reigned: 1741-1761 (1762)
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