Abstract: It was a surprise to everyone when Anna Ivanovna became empress. On the night of 19 January 1730, the fourteen-year-old emperor Peter II died in Moscow after an illness of several days. With his death, the male line of the Romanov dynasty came to an end. There were two real heirs to the throne—Peter I's daughter, the nineteen-year-old Elizabeth, and her nephew Karl Peter Ulrich (the future Emperor Peter III), the two-year-old son of Karl Friedrich, the duke of Holstein, and Elizabeth's late sister Anna. However, the members of the Supreme Privy Council [verkhovniki], the top governmental body that existed from 1726 to 1730, who gathered in Lefortovo Palace would not even consider the daughter and grandson of Peter I and the Swedish "washerwoman" Catherine.
Publication Year: 1994
Publication Date: 1994-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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