Anna Ioannovna was born in Moscow on 28 January, 1693. After the death of her father, Tsar Ivan V, Peter the Great's imbecile half-brother and co-tsar for seven years, in 1696 she grew up with her mother, Praskovia Saltykova, and sisters in the village of Izmailovo on the outskirts of Moscow. Her mother was an ignorant, bigoted, old-style ...

Anna Ioannovna Born: Moscow, 28 January (7 February) 1693 Died: St. Petersburg, 17 (28) October 1740 Reigned: 1730-1740. Anna was born in Moscow to Tsar Ivan V and Praskoviya Fyodorovna Saltykova. After the death of her father, she lived with her mother and sisters in the village of Ismaylovo, where she was educated at home. In 1708, the entire ...

Anna of Russia was born as Anna Ioannovna on February 7, 1693, in Moscow, Tsardom of Russia, to Tsar Ivan V and Praskovia Saltykova. Her father, who was mentally unstable, ruled together with his younger half-brother Peter the Great, who took care of most of the administration until Ivan's death in 1696, when he became the sole ruler.

23/10/2020 · A widowed Russian noble, Anna Ioannovna was chosen to lead the throne after the death of Peter II in 1730. While others believed they could use her weakness in order to pass their own laws, Ioannovna soon showed her true strength, controlling the nation in a way that had never been seen before. When the then-Emperor, Peter II died in 1730 ...

OF ANNA IOANNOVNA ALEXANDER LIPSKI MOST HISTORIANS consider the reign of Anna Ioannovna (1730-40) one of the saddest epochs in Russian history. It is the purpose of this article to examine the chief accusations levelled against Anna Ioannovna's government, with a view to determining to what extent they are justified.