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Anna I of Russia

1693–1740 · Romanov

Fourth Emperor of Russia from 1730 to 1740. Born at Moscow. Died at Saint Petersburg.

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Reigned

1730–1740

Emperor of all the Russias

A wedding night in an ice palace

Empress Anna made Prince Mikhail Golitsyn her court jester and married him to her Kalmyk maid, Avdotya Buzheninova. For the wedding she built a palace of ice, with ice beds, chairs and logs in an ice fireplace, and the couple arrived in a cage on an elephant.

Family

Father: Ivan V of Russia
Mother: Praskovia Saltykova
Married: Frederick William Kettler 1710
Siblings (2): Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia 1691
Tsarevna Praskovya Ivanovna of Russia 1694