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Anna Leopoldovna and the Infant Emperor: A Romanov Regency
Between the flamboyant reigns of Peter the Great and his daughter Elizabeth, a forgotten chapter unfolds: the short, chaotic regency of Anna Leopoldovna for her infant son, Ivan VI. When Anna Ioannovna died in 1740, she left the throne to her great-nephew, a two-month-old baby. Power fell to Ernst Johann von Biron, the detested favorite of the late empress, but he lasted barely three weeks before a coup by Field Marshal Burchard von Münnich swept him away. Anna Leopoldovna, Ivan's mother, became regent—but she was apathetic, homesick for Germany, and entirely unprepared. While she spent…
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