ELIZABETH PETROVNA

Empre of Ru ia, daughter of Peter the Great and Catherine, born in 1709 or 129 ELIZABETH AN ELIZABETH AN BITSY ‘Te PIO WHI0;y GFAALGLInOuy NVALALVZITA 130 ELIZABETH AN 127 ELIZABETH AN TD 9 ELIZABETH AN ARCHITECTURE: AN INTERIOR Reconstruction in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London 131 ELIZABETH POL 1710, died in 1762. She ascended the throne on 7th Dec., 1741, as the result of a conspiracy, in which Ivan VI, a minor, was deposed. Elizabeth is said to have rivalled her mother in beauty, and to have surpa ed her in her love of pleasure, and her government was Jargely conducted by favourites. She was a patron of literature, founded the University of Moscow, and corresponded with Voltaire. A war with Sweden, in 1743, was advantageously concluded by the peace of Abo. In 1748 she sent an army to a ist Maria The res a in the War of the ao ar and joined in the Seven Years’ 7 128 Ye if Legs 7, Vip a) YM, Mpg BLS ELIZABETH STUART, Queen of Bohemia, daughter of James I of England and VI of Scotland, born in Falkland Palace, Fifes hire, 1596, died on 13th Feb., 1662. Her marriage with the Palatine Frederick was celebrated at White hall in 1613. Her husband, then at the head of the Protestant interest in Germany, accepted ir 1619 the Crown of Bohemia offered tc him by the revolted Protestants of that country. After his defeat, however, by the imperialists at the battle of Prague in 1620, he and his wife were obliged to flee, first to Breslau and Berlin, and then to the Hague. ElizaPak casa ‘ S10: Elk ( Alces Machlis) against Pru ia. She died before this war was concluded.— BIBLIOGRAPHY: Nisbet Bain, The Daughter of Peter the Great; A. S. Rappoport, The Fair Ladies of the Winter Palace. IMG:fig130_1.jpg: IMG:fig131_1.jpg: IMG:fig132_1.jpg: