Ivan VI

Ivan VI
Russian Ivan Antonovich

born Aug. 23, 1740, St. Petersburg, Russia
died July 16, 1764, Shlisselburg Fortress, near St. Petersburg

Infant emperor of Russia (1740–41).

The grandnephew of Empress Anna, Ivan was proclaimed her heir and then emperor, with his mother as regent, when he was only eight weeks old. In 1741 they were deposed by Elizabeth, daughter of Peter I, and for the next 20 years he remained in solitary confinement in various prisons. In 1764, when an army officer tried to free Ivan to restore him to power and remove Catherine II, who had seized the throne in 1762, Ivan was assassinated by his jailers.

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▪ emperor of Russia
in full  Ivan Antonovich  
born Aug. 12 [Aug. 23, New Style], 1740, St. Petersburg, Russia
died July 5 [July 16], 1764, Shlisselburg Fortress, near St. Petersburg

      infant emperor of Russia in 1740–41.

      The son of Prince Anton Ulrich of Braunschweig-Bevern-Lüneburg and Anna Leopoldovna, the niece of Empress Anna (reigned in Russia 1730–40), Ivan Antonovich was named heir to the throne by the empress on Oct. 16 (Oct. 27), 1740, and proclaimed emperor the next day. The empress' favourite, Ernst Johann Biron, the Duke of Courland, became regent for him. Although Biron was overthrown by the vice-chancellor, Andrey Osterman, and Field Marshal Burkhard Christoph, Count von Münnich, three weeks later, Ivan remained the nominal ruler of Russia, and his mother was installed as regent.

      On Nov. 25 (Dec. 6), 1741, however, Elizabeth, the daughter of Emperor Peter I the Great (reigned in Russia 1682–1725), organized a group that opposed Anna Leopoldovna's foreign policy and her German advisers and deposed the regent, the ruling German clique, and Ivan VI. For the next 20 years Ivan remained in solitary confinement in various prisons. Although his mental and emotional development were thereby retarded, a second lieutenant of the Shlisselburg garrison, Vasily Yakovlevich Mirovich, tried in 1764 to free Ivan in order to remove Catherine II the Great, who had recently seized the throne (1762), and to restore him to power. In the course of Mirovich's mutiny, however, Ivan was assassinated by his jailers.

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