Secrets of Palace Coups - Ioann III (VI) Antonovich

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Ivan VI (Ioann Antonovich) (12 (23) August 1740 – 5 (16) July 1764) was a Russian emperor from the House of Welf who reigned from October 1740 to November 1741, and was the great-grandson of Ivan V. Formally, he ruled during the first year of his life under the regency first of Biron, and then of his own mother Anna Leopoldovna. The infant emperor was overthrown by Elizabeth Petrovna, spent his entire life imprisoned in jails and solitary cells, and was killed at the age of 24 during an attempted escape. In official contemporary sources, he is referred to as Ioann III, counting from the first Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible; in later historiography, the tradition was established to call him Ivan (Ioann) VI, counting from Ivan I Kalita.

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