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Anna Leopoldovna, Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biographies

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Anna Leopoldovna[An´nu lyA´´upOl´duvnu] Pronunciation Key or Anna Karlovna[kAr´luvnu] Pronunciation Key, 1718–46, duchess of Brunswick-WolfenbUttel, regent of Russia (1740–41); daughter of Charles Leopold, duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and of Catherine, sister of Czarina Anna of Russia. She married the prince of Brunswick-WolfenbUttel, and their son, Ivan VI, succeeded (1740) Anna as czar. After the deposition of Ivan by Czarina Elizabeth, Anna Leopoldovna and her husband were imprisoned. She died in childbirth.



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