Ivan VI Antonovich (1740-1764), Emperor

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IVAN VI (1740, St. Petersburg — 1764, Schlisselburg Fortress), Emperor (1740-1741). He was the son of Anna Leopoldovna and Prince Antony Ulrich of Brunswick, grandson of Tsar Ivan V (brother of Peter the Great). Childless Empress Anna Ioannovna made him the heir to the throne on 16 October 1740 (after her death, E.I. Biron was the child's regent; later his mother took the post). He was dethroned by Elizaveta Petrovna on 25 November 1741 and kept in prison in Riga, Dunamunde, Ranenburg, Kholmogory; from 1756, he was kept in Schlisselburg Fortress. He was killed by guards on the night of 5 July 1764, during a rescue attempt headed by V.Y. Mirovich. He was secretly buried on the territory of the fortress.

References: Корф М. А. Брауншвейгское семейство. М., 1993; Каменский А. Б. Иван VI Антонович // ВИ. 1994. № 11. С. 50-62.

G. V. Kalashnikov. Anna Ioannovna, Empress
Anna Leopoldovna, Regent
Anton Ulrich Brunswick-Bevern Luneburg, Prince
Biron Ernst Johann
Ivan V Alexeevich, Tsar
Ivan VI Antonovich, Emperor
Mirovich Vasily Yakovlevich
Peter I, Emperor
Корф М. А. Брауншвейгское семейство. М., 1993
Каменский А. Б. Иван VI Антонович // Вопр. истории, 1994 1740
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