Romanovs

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Romanovs

• 1725-1801

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Ekaterina Alexeevna

• Catherine I
• Empress 1725-1727
• Peters 2nd wife
• Accomplishments
• None

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Peter Alexeevich

• Emperor 1727-1730
• Peters grandson
• Throne _at_ 12
• Actual power ? Prince A.D. Menshikov
• d _at_ 14smallpox
• Male line of Romanov dynasty end

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Anna Ivanova

• Empress 1730-1740
• Daughter of Peters co-ruler Ivan V
• Elected to throne by Supreme Privy
  Councillimited her powershmmm.
• Accomplishments
• Some say she spent little time on affairs of
  state
• Yetinternal stability successful foreign
  policy

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Ivan Antonovich (Ivan VI)

• Emperor 1740-1741
• Great-nephew of Anna Ivanova
• Assumed throne _at_ 2 months (age)
• Overthrown 2 years latersent to monastery
• Enter Elizaveta Petrovna

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Elizaveta Petrovna

• Empress 1741-1761
• Peter the Greats daughter
• Accomplishments
• Significant advances economically culturally
• Foreign policyRussia importantall nations
  wanted to make treaties
• Abolished capital punishmentin 20-year reign no
  one was executed
• Died leaving no heir

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Peter Feodorovich (Peter III)

• Emperor 1761-1762
• Nephew of Elizaveta Petrovna
• Major accomplishment
• Married Princess Sophia August Frederica of
  Anhalt-Zerbst
• Christened into Church as Ekaterina Alexeevna

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.Peter III

• Accomplishments
• Granted amnesty for and return from exile of
  state officials arrested by Elizaveta
• Introduced various reforms
• Banned persecution of dissenters
• Dissolved Privy Council
• Released the gentry from compulsory state service
  (Peter the Great)

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Peter Feodorovich

• Overthrown by wife
• Imprisoned
• Executed
• However.

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Ekaterina Alexeevna

• Catherine the Great
• Empress 1762-1796
• German by birth
• Industrious
• Highly intelligent daughter of the
  Enlightenment Voltaire, et.al.
• STRONG-WILLED

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Catherine the Great

• Accomplishments
• Internal political reformsupper classes ONLY
• Continue husbands policy of freeing nobles from
  compulsory state service
• Encouraged nobles to develop manage estates

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Catherine the Great

• Accomplishments (upper classes ONLY)
• Gave merchants townspeople more freedom
• Supported trade, education, arts, sciences
  (Enlightenment ideals)
• Serfs? Werent important
• 2 wars w/ Ottoman Empire
• Occupied vast territories on southern
  boundariesBlack Sea
• d1796

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Pavel Petrovich (Paul I)

• Emperor 1796-1801
• Son of Catherine Peter III (??)
• Not a trusting soul? knew of mothers plots
  against father ? irritable suspicious of those
  around him
• Declared self emperor _at_ Catherines death

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Pavel Petrovich

• Unpopular _at_ court
• Extremely hostile towards mom
• Break w/ stability of Catherines reign

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Paul I

• Accomplishments
• Freed those imprisoned by Privy Council
• Liberated Poles
• Abolished conscription (meaning?)
• Limited power of landowners over the serfs
• Issued a decree on rights of succession
• Established procedures for transfer of power from
  one monarch to the next

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Paul I

• Accomplishments
• Foreign policyFrance
• From enemies to allies
• Not popular idea _at_ home
• ?murdered

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RomanovsIs there an obvious pattern?