Anna of Russia
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Anna Ioannovna, also russified as Anna Ivanovna and sometimes anglicized as Anne, served as regent of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia from 1711 until 1730 and then ruled as Empress of Russia from
Portrait by Louis Caravaque, 1730
Coinage of Anna of Russia
Empress Anna abrogates the "Conditions"
In this 1878 painting by Valery Jacobi, the scared newlyweds Mikhail Golitsyn and Avdotya Buzheninova sit on the icy bed to the left; the jocular woman in golden dress is Empress Anna.
Ivan V of Russia
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Ivan V Alekseyevich was Tsar of all Russia between 1682 and 1696, jointly ruling with his younger half-brother Peter I. Ivan was the youngest son of Alexis I of Russia by his first wife, Maria Milosla
Anna of Russia
…court envisioned by Peter the Great. Within Russia, Anna's reign is often referred to as a "dark era". Anna was born in Moscow as the daughter of Tsar Ivan V by his wife Praskovia Saltykova. Ivan V was co-ruler of Russia along with his younger half-brother Peter the Great, but he was mentally disabled and…
Portrait by Mikhail Choglokov, 1696
Ivan V and Peter I being crowned as joint Tsars of Russia
Portrait of Ivan V
Praskovia Saltykova, Portrait by Ivan Nikitin.