the heiress of russian blood has been wasting away in distant courland for 15 years.he prison palace in the moscow kremlin and hardly remembered her father. ivan 5, older brother and co-ruler of peter i died when the girl was 3 years old. after this, emperor peter alekseevich took the fate of his niece into his own hands. barely. he gave her in marriage to the duke of kurlian, of course, there was no talk of love, but which of the princesses married for love. in pre-petrine russia, it was difficult for the royal daughters to find a spouse. marriage with compatriots was considered unworthy of the royal family; they could marry a foreign monarch only if they maintained the orthodox faith, which often did not suit the western powers. the situation began to change since peter i. the russian empire became one of the largest political players, and dynastic marriages began to serve new state interests. the marriage of anna ioannovna and duke of kurlya friedrich wilhelm was intended to strengthen russian positions in the baltic. before leaving for courland, anna's eighteen-ye

the lands were divided into estland, lefland, courland and velen provinces.completely redrawn the geography of europe. under the pressure of the german army, they had to leave the courland and part of the liflyan province. two revolutions in 1917 brought an end to the russian empire. the government entered into separate peace negotiations with germany. the terms of the brest-litovsk treaty were draconian. the baltic states were taken over by germany and austria-hungary. the areas lying to the west of the line established by the contracting parties and previously belonging to russia will no longer be under its supreme authority. russia refuses any interference into the internal affairs of these regions. germany and austria-hungary intend to determine the future fate of these areas once they are cleared of their population. the occupied baltic states were considered as a colony of the german empire, the creation of a baltic duchy was announced, and heinrich hagenzollern, the brother of the german kaiser, became the ruler. german became the only official languag

it was rumored that during the years spent in courland she had become detached from russian life.o matter how anna ioannovna she loved old moscow, she felt cramped here. finally, she decided to move to st. petersburg along with her court and government agencies. by that time, the northern capital had transformed. into a real backwater, the number of residents dropped sharply, and the streets laid by peter the great were overgrown with weeds; after st. petersburg returned to capital status, the city began to come to life, buildings damaged by floods were repaired, the construction of new avenues, palaces and cathedrals began, and at the same time restoration of the baltic fleet, which in recent years has come for... cannon ships were built at the st. petersburg and arkhangelsk shipyards, by the end of the 18th century the number of new ships numbered more than one and a half hundred. in addition, anna approved russia's naval doctrine and ordered the resumption of regular naval exercises. although history has established the idea of ​​anna iuannovna’s time as a dark era, it is large

his paradise, lived again. began to flourish, and soon her favorite, ernst johann beron, arrived from courland anna ioannovna. many foreign faces appear, much more than in peter’s time. in general, throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, russia was a klandike in this regard, you could make a career here, there were a lot of people here was driving. anna ioannovna is an autocratic empress, but she does not care about the fate of the young empire. she could not live without beron, she constantly needed him, despite the fact that he was married, the signatures of the two cabinet ministers meant the same as the signature of the empress herself. anna ioanovna was not eager to engage in government affairs, especially when she was resting, and she rested every day. why did you invite a lady to dance and turn up your face yourself? oh, master, you darling, watch your husband, otherwise his head might come off in the wind. leave me alone! anna ioanovna envied the carefree and cheerful elizabeth, who, like her, had not known poverty, humiliation, or the despair of a widow’s fate far fr