Elizaveta Petrovna (1709-1761)

Elizaveta Petrovna (1709-1761) - Empress since 1741, ascended the throne, overthrowing Emperor John VI Antonovich (1740-1764). Daughter of Emperor Peter I (1672-1725) and Empress Catherine I (1684-1727). On the night of November 25, 1741, 32-year-old Tsarevna Elizaveta Petrovna, accompanied by Count M.I. Vorontsov, physician Lestok and music teacher with the words “Guys! You know whose daughter I am, follow me! As you served my father, so serve me with your loyalty! " brought up the grenadier company of the Preobrazhensky regiment. Thus, a coup d'etat was carried out during which Ivan VI, his mother, ruler-regent Anna Leopoldovna was overthrown. The first document signed by Elizabeth Petrovna was a manifesto, which proved that after the death of Peter II, she was the only legitimate heir to the throne. She also wished to arrange coronation celebrations in the Kremlin's Assumption Cathedral and on April 25, 1742, she took the crown upon herself. The main principles of domestic and foreign policy, Elizaveta Petrovna, proclaimed a return to Peter's reforms. She abolished the state institutions that emerged after the death of her father (the Cabinet of Ministers, etc.), restored the role of the Senate, collegiums, the Chief Magistrate. The period of Elizabeth's reign was a period of excesses and luxury. Elizaveta Petrovna died on December 25, 1761 (January 5, 1762 in a new way). style).
Elizabeth managed to appoint her nephew Karl-Peter-Ulrich Holstein-Gottorp (the son of Anna's sister) as the official heir to the throne, who converted to Orthodoxy under the name of Peter III Fedorovich and made peace with Prussia.