Елисаве́т Петро́внаELIZABETH PETROVNA

By: Melissa Barry

• Is born on December 1709 in Kolomenskoye• The second oldest daughter of Peter the Great• Her parents, Catherine I and Peter I, were married

secretly at Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, and didn’t make their married public until 1712.

• Many political opponents made it hard for Elizabeth to be empress of Russia because her parents marriage wasn’t public when she was born.

• She had 5 brothers and 6 sisters, only Elizabeth and Anna survived.

• In 1711 she became a Tsarevna and in 1721 became a Tsesarevna.

Peter I and Catherine I

EARLY LIFE

• When Elizabeth’s father died, he left Russian in utter confusion because he didn’t leave a name for the heir.

• She was 15 when Peter I died and wasn’t ready to fight to be empress of Russia.

• Many close and distant relatives took thrown but all died. A distant cousin, Ivan VI, was born and took empress at two months.

• Elizabeth is worried about what might happen to her because her family were controllers of the throne but not for long.

HOW SHE BECAME TO RULE

Ivan VI

• With a baby as empress of Russia, she begins to plot to overthrow Ivan VI.

• She became empress in 1741 by overthrowing Ivan VI.

• She was able to by her popularity with the imperial guards who hated Ivan VI mother, Anna Leopoldovna and took her father’s loyalist officers.

• She became Empress at age 32 and took action right away.

HOW SHE BECAME TO RULE

Monument of Elizabeth Petrovna

• As a woman with no husband or children, she had to find a heir. Catherine II had a child and had the decision to bring the baby up as she believed he should be.

• She gave little attention to the small day-to-day things of government.

• She mostly dealt with people who became threats of hers.

• She did not make any domestic or foreign policies but her influence by choice of officials and response to the counsels.

• There were less Germans in the government during her throne because she was about Russians begin in power.

• She took a lot of pride in the countries advances as becoming a great power during her empress.

IN POWER

Elizabeth Petrovna

• Her health was declining and kept getting many dizzy spells but did not take her prescribed medicine.

• Her last strengths were made to confess the prayer of dying and to say good bye to her family members

• She died on January 5, 1962• She was buried in the St Peter

and St Paul Cathedral in St. Peterburg.

• Her death was the end of the Romanovs.

DEATH

Elizabeth’s tomb is the closest one from the left side.

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