Ivan VI of Russia

Ivan VI (August 23rd 1740 - July 16th 1764), tsar of Russia of 1740 with 1741.

Wire of Anna Léopoldovna and Antoine-Ulrich Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, it is designated as heir to the throne by his great-aunt Anne Ire. He is proclaimed Empereur on October 17th 1740, under the regency of the Count Buhren, old Favori of Anne; this one is however isolated capacity the next on November 9th and the mother de' Ivan, Anna Léopoldovna, is proclaimed regent until the majority of her son.

Anna Leopoldovna lets the ministers control, and in particular the field-marshal Burckhardt of Munich. This one created a " Payment of the factories " fixing the relations between the owners and their workmen and regulating day's work. Nevertheless, of the dissensions appear between the ministers, compromising the stability and the credit of the government; in addition, the Russian nobility reproaches the regent the too Germanic character of its entourage: a national feeling anti-German appears and the public opinion turns to Elisabeth Petrovna, girl of Pierre Ier Large and judged more the " russe" that Anna Léopoldovna.

November 25th 1741, a military coup d'etat draws aside Ivan VI and its mother of the throne.

Anna Léopoldovna and the family of her husband are imprisoned in Kholmogory. Anna dies there in 1746 and Ivan is then locked up in the fortress of Schlusselburg, under the name of " Captive number 1 ". In 1764, an coup attempt of State is directed against the Empress Catherine II, then reigning, in order to restore Ivan VI on the throne: he is then assassinated by one of his geôliers.

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