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The daughter of Peter the Great (r. 1682–1725)
and Catherine I (r. 1725–27), Elizabeth, when young, had
little interest in ruling and preferred dancing, dressing up,
and flirting. But by 1741, at the age of thirty-three, Elizabeth
was threatened by Regent Anna (1718–46) with banishment
to a convent, and Russians felt threatened by the Germanization
of the court and dynasty during the reign of the infant Ivan
VI (r. 1740–41). Elizabeth easily overthrew “the
foreigners,” promising to restore the reforming policies
of her mother and father. Her reign (1741–61) witnessed
the continued europeanization of the court and culture, in particular
with the emulation of French styles, language, and literary
genres.
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