A decade before the publication of Rousseau's Contrat social (1762) and Beccaria's Dei delitti e delle pene (1764), the Empress Elizabeth Petrovna strictly limited the legal scope of capital punishment. As the French legal historian Joseph Viaud has written, perhaps only a despot can do ...
Graceful, bright, summer variation of the well-known pattern "Cobalt Net", the Imperial porcelain plant which has become the card. The decor is made based on a service list "Own", created at Imperial porcelain plant in the middle of the XVIII century for the empress Elizabeth Petrovna. Brig...
When Elizabeth Petrovna decided to overthrow Ivan VI and turned to the Preobrazhensky Regiment for support, she immediately received it. On December 6, 1741, the future empress personally led the soldiers to the Winter Palace, where they arrested the ruling family. The overthrow of Peter III T...
• Empress Elizabeth Petrovna at Tsarskoe Selo, 1905 Mikhail Larionov (1881–1964) Avant-garde Rayonist painter (see Rayonism). Larionov, together with his lifelong partner Natalia Goncharova (see above) were important figures in the pre-World War I avant-garde in Russia, who helped to organi...
When the future ruler was 17 years old, Empress Elizabeth Petrovna hurried to marry him. She chose the German princess, who became known as Catherine II. But it must be said that Peter III and Catherine II did not tolerate each other and were considered a married couple only legally. Cathe...
Anna Leopoldovna died on March 7, 1746 in Kholmogory, Russia. Empress Elizabeth Petrovna ordered to bury her deceased relative in the Annunciation Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. Source: www.liveinternet.ru Anna Leopoldovna, regent of Russia ...
Elsaveta/Elizabeth Petrovna 1741-1762 Seven Years War, 1756-1762 Peter III 1762 Ekaterina/ Catherine II the Great 1762-1796 Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774; Turks defeated, Naval Battle of Chesma, July 5-7, 1770; Battle of Larga, July 7, 1770; Battle of Kagul, August 1, 1770; Khānate...
Some decrees were born not out of economic or political considerations, but solely from a sense of beauty. For example, the Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, a great fashionista, once used a poor-quality powder that tightly glued her hair together. Coloring in black also did not help to hide the ...
Marta and Peter married secretly in 1707. They had twelve children, two of whom survived into adulthood, Anna (mother ofPeter III) and Elizabeth Petrovna (empress 1741-62). Actually, Peter officially married Catherine on February 9, 1712. By the way, Catherine was Peter’s second wife. ...