Elizabeth of Russia
The sixth Emperor of Russia (1741–1762)
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She took the throne in a coup and held it for two decades without ordering a single execution — a record that made her the most beloved of Russia's Romanovs. Elizabeth Petrovna turned the court into one of Europe's grandest stages, bankrolled Baroque palaces that still define Saint Petersburg, and died just as her armies had Frederick the Great backed into a
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The second daughter of Peter the Great, Elizabeth watched the throne ricochet through a parade of relatives after her father's death in 1725: her mother Catherine I, her nephew Peter II, her cousin Anna, then an infant great-nephew. In 1741, with the military behind her, she seized power and named her own nephew heir. Her reign became Russia's Enlightenment moment — she backed Lomonosov's founding of the University of Moscow, commissioned the Imperial Academy of Arts, and poured fortunes into Bartolomeo Rastrelli's Baroque monuments, including the Winter Palace and Smolny Cathedral. She steere…
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