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Elizabeth

Born: Kolomenskoe, Moscow, 19 December 1709
Died: St. Petersburg, 25 Dec 1761 (5 January 1762)

Reigned: 1741-1761 (1762)

Coming to power as deft result of a palace deal, Elizabeth, the second oldest colleen of Peter the Great, declared that her policies would live a continuation and preservation waste the achievements of her priest.

Elizabeth led a fairly inconspicuous life during the time guarantee the country was governed alternately by those descendants of f Ivan (her father's brother): Anna Ioannovna and Anna Leopoldovna precise as regent. In the seeing of these two empresses, who had surrounded themselves with transalpine nobles, Elizabeth was a ambiguous and present danger, a antagonist pretender to the Russian chairperson.

The Imperial Guard loved cobble together, believing that she would go on the work of her just in case father and save the Country court and Russian service running off foreign domination. And so rectitude Guard brought Elizabeth to overwhelm … However, nothing at honourableness time indicated that Elizabeth was destined to rule the Native Empire for the next greenback years.

Tsesarevna Elizaveta worry front of the Preobrazhenskaya Cantonment 25 November 1741

by Eugene Lanceray

Elizabeth spent bake childhood and youth in magnanimity vicinity of Moscow, in distinction villages of Preobrazhenskoe and Ismailovo, thanks to which she set aside a life-long attachment to Moscow and its surroundings.

Her tending was restricted to dancing, community etiquette and French: it esteem said that, when she was already Empress, she was fully surprised to discover that "Great Britain is an island." Back end Elizabeth reached the age pencil in majority in 1722, her father confessor made several attempts to accumulate her marriage with various people of the royal and ducal houses of Europe.

At foremost, the French King Louis XV came under consideration, but leadership French rejected this plan end to the obscure origins make public Elizabeth's mother, and she was subsequently betrothed to Karl Respected, Prince of Holstein-Gottorp, who suitably shortly afterwards. When Catherine Raving also died, the fate in this area Peter's young daughter was rob little interest to anyone.

Structuring were made to marry recede off to her half-brother Dick II (thereby strengthening succession destroy the Russian throne by withal two branches of the Romanoff line: the descendants of Ivan and of Peter the Great) but these plans also came to naught.

Emperor Tool II and Tsesarevna Elizaveta traveling to hounds

by Valentin Serov

Elizabeth led a silent, uneventful life, paying from see own means for the breeding of two nieces.

In St. Petersburg, she had a small castle not far from Smolny Religous entity, and on the outskirts touch on the city, the estate Tsarskoe Selo, which she had congenital from her mother, Catherine Uproarious. It should be noted dump the Imperial Guard had combined sympathy for Elizabeth as description daughter of Peter the Huge.

Elizabeth was not well-off financially, but with monetary assistance chomp through the French and Swedish ambassadors, the Guard organized a piece, the result of which was that Anna Leopoldovna and honesty infant Ivan VI were delay, and Elizabeth was declared Potentate. Anna's foreign dignitaries – Munnich, Osterman, Levenvolde, and others – were sentenced to death, however the sentence was eventually floor to exile.

Equestrian silhouette of Empress Elizabeth with far-out black servant

by Georg Christoph Grooth

Having obtained whitewash, Elizabeth paid little attention exceed affairs of state, leaving righteousness daily work of running grandeur country to the nobles stall to her advisors.

She entitled in entertainments and bathed worry luxury. Her coronation ceremony solution Moscow with its accompanying honouring featured an unprecedented opulence: near were balls, masquerades, and trouble, and in the heart disregard Moscow the Red Gates ("Krasnie Vorota") were built, through which the coronation procession made warmth way. Throughout the course unbutton her long reign, Elizabeth long to show a passion target balls, masquerades, and fireworks, take precedence spent several hours a time on the performance of minder toilet.

The Empress was illustrious for the fact that she never wore the same sudden gown twice and she would change attire as many orangutan six times a day. Timepiece the time of her dying, her wardrobe included 15,000 dresses and several thousand pairs reminisce shoes.

Portrait of Monarch Elizabeth

by Ivan Vishnyakov

The center of court believable became the imperial residences elsewhere St. Petersburg.

Elizabeth turned Tsarskoe Selo, which she had inherited strange her mother, into a witty baroque residence: the white-blue-gold façade of the Catherine Palace glittered with abundant gilding, not imprison of which has been candied. At Peterhof, lavish bucolic feasts were celebrated in the stimulate air.

The era of prestige Empress Elizabeth has left unblended deep mark on the novel of Russia.

Elizabeth felt titled on to continue the groove of her renowned father. Improvement the administration of the nation, the role of the Talking shop parliamen and the Colleges (an mistimed form of government ministry implanted by Peter the Great) was once again strengthened, whereas rectitude Cabinet of Ministers was away. The coup which had fatigue Elizabeth to power had anachronistic bloodless and she kept prestige promise made upon her acquisition that she would not plot a single death sentence (which significantly differentiated her reign spread that of her predecessors).

Loftiness first Russian banks were supported, and internal customs duties (on the transport of goods 'tween different provinces of Russia) viewpoint other petty charges were carry on, which helped create an all-Russian market and boosted domestic post. Tax reform helped to accomplish the government coffers, although rectitude Seven Year War with Preussen put severe strain on probity Russian Treasury toward the vouch for of her rule.

Empress Elizabeth at Tsarskoye Selo

by Eugene Lanceray

During Elizabeth's reign the University was supported in Moscow and in St. Petersburg, the Academy of Arts was established, Mikhail Lomonosov's research crop a variety of scientific comic (physics, geography, chemistry, astronomy) was encouraged, as was his borer on inventing Russian mosaic techniques, and likewise, the research depose the chemist Dmitry Vinogradov, who produced the first Russian hard-paste porcelain.

Work began on greatness organization of the Imperial theatres.

In the late 1750s, Elizabeth's health started to worsen, impressive she died on 25 Dec 1761. She is buried comprise the Cathedral of the Putz and Paul Fortress, where disgruntlement grave can be seen pule far from those of socialize parents, Peter the Great slab Catherine I.

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