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
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.
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
Ivan V of Russia
…Ekaterina Ivanovna (1691–1733), grandmother of the unfortunate Ivan VI of Russia Anna Ivanovna (1693–1740), ruled as Empress of Russia; no issue Praskovia Ivanovna (1694–1731), had issue one son who died in infancy…
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.