Anna Leopoldovna
Anna Leopoldovna
(än`nə lyā'əpôl`dəvnə) orAnna Karlovna
(kär`ləvnə), 1718–46, duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, regent of Russia (1740–41); daughter of Charles Leopold, duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and of Catherine, sister of Czarina Anna of Russia. She married the prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and their son, Ivan VIIvan VI,1740–64, czar of Russia (1740–41), great-grandson of Ivan V. He was the son of Prince Anthony Ulric of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and of Anna Leopoldovna.
..... Click the link for more information. , succeeded (1740) Anna as czar. After the deposition of Ivan by Czarina ElizabethElizabeth,
1709–62, czarina of Russia (1741–62), daughter of Peter I and Catherine I. She gained the throne by overthrowing the young czar, Ivan VI, and the regency of his mother, Anna Leopoldovna.
..... Click the link for more information. , Anna Leopoldovna and her husband were imprisoned. She died in childbirth.
Anna Leopol’dovna
Born Dec. 7, 1718, in Rostock; died Mar. 7, 1746, in Kholmogory. “Ruler” of the Russian empire during the reign of Ivan VI Antonovich, from Nov. 9, 1740, to Nov. 25, 1741.
Anna Leopol’dovna, daughter of the duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Ekaterina Ivanovna (daughter of Tsar Ivan V Alekseevich), lived in Russia from 1722 on. In 1739 she was married to Prince Anton Ulrich of Braunschweig. Anna Ivanovna declared her minor son heir to the throne under the name of Ivan VI, appointing Biron as regent. After a palace revolution that deposed Biron, Anna Leopol’dovna was proclaimed regent under Ivan VI. She did not play any political role. When Elizaveta Petrovna came to the throne, Ivan VI was arrested and Anna Leopol’dovna was exiled with her family to Kholmogory.