Victor Amadeus II Duke of Savoy
Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia
Elizabeth Petrovna ROMANOV Empress
Empress of Russia (1741-62). She became empress by effectively staging a
palace revolution that deposed the infant emperor Ivan VI and his mother Anna
Leopoldovna (1718-46) who acted as regent. She named her nephew Peter II as
her successor. Elizabeth's nonpolitical achievements include the establishment
of the University of Moscow in 1755 and the Academy of Arts at St. Petersburg
in 1757.
Alexis Michaylovich ROMANOV Emperor
Reign: 1645-1676; According to "The First Romanovs" by Virginia Cowles (1971)
there were 13 children from this marriage, but by 1670 only two sons survived.
Alexis Michaylovich ROMANOV Emperor
Reign: 1645-1676; According to "The First Romanovs" by Virginia Cowles (1971)
there were 13 children from this marriage, but by 1670 only two sons survived.
Accocrding to a contemporary account by Adrien de la Neuville, who encountered
Sophia frequently she: " had a shapeless body, monstrously fat, a head as big
as a bushel measure, hairs growing on her face, sores on her legs". He adds
however that, "she is acute, subtle and shrewd in mind, as she is broad, short
and coarse in person. And although she had never read Machiavelli, nor learned
anything about him, all his maxims come naturally to her.
Defective in speech and sight; a semi-imbecile.
Feodor III (Theodore) ROMANOV Emperor
Reign: 1676-1682; Intelligent, but disfigured and sickly.