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Title: History for ready reference, from the best historians, biographers, and specialists : their own words in a complete system of history ...
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Larned, J. N. (Josephus Nelson), 1836-1913 Reiley, Alan C
Subjects: History
Publisher: Springfield, Mass. : C. A. Nichols Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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r of the unfortunate Peter III.Menshikov was appointed the guardian of theyoung Tsar till he had reached the age of 17.In four months Menshikov was in disgrace andthe young Tsar had signed a ukase which con-demned him to Siberian banishment. He died in1729, and was followed to the grave a year laterby the boy autocrat whose fiat had been his ruin.On the death of Peter II., the will of Catherine,in favor of her daughters, was set aside, and theCouncil of the Empire conferred the crown onAnne (Anne Ivanovna), the widowed Duchess ofCourland, who was a daughter of Ivan, elderbrother of Peter the Great. An attempt wasmade to impose on her a constitution, somewhatresembling the Pacta Conventa of the Poles, butshe evaded it. The Empress threw herself en-tirely into the hands of German favourites, es-pecially a Courlander of low extraction, namedBiren, said to have been the son of a groom. . . .The Empress was a woman of vulgar mind, andthe Court was given up to unrefined orgies. . . . 2836 ^
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r^ r RUSSIA, 1725-1739. Anne Ivanovna. RUSSIA, 1740-1763. Her reign was not an important one for Russiaeither as regards internal or foreign aflfairs. Tlieright of primogeniture whicli had been intro-duced into the Russian law of real property byPeter the Great, was abolished; it was altogetheralien to the spirit of Slavonic institutions. Afour years war with Turkey led to no importantresults.—W. R. MorflU, The Story of Russia,ch. 8.— The Russians could have no difficultyin finding a pretence for the war (with Turkey),because the khan of the Turkish allies and de-pendents, the Tatars on the coast of the BlackSea and the Sea of Asof, and in the Crimea,could never wholly restrain his wandering hordesfrom committing depredations and making in-cursions into the neighbouring pasture-lands ofRussia. ... In 1735 a Russian corps marchedinto the Crimea, ravaged a part of the country,and killed a great number of Tatars; but havingventured too far without a sufficient stock ofprovisions, the

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