Regent (Russland) - Ernst Johann Von Biron, Alexander Wassiljewitsch Koltschak, Sofia Alexejewna, Anna Leopoldowna, Helena Glinskaja (English, German, Paperback)

Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Ernst Johann von Biron (Latvian: Russian: 23 November 1690 - 29 December 1772) was a Baltic German Duke of Courland and Semigallia (1737) and regent of the Russian Empire (1740). Born as Ernst Johann Biren (German: Latvian: ) in Kalnciems, Courland, he was the grandson of a groom in the service of Jacob Kettler, Duke of Courland, who bestowed upon him a small estate, which Biren's father inherited and where Biren himself was born. He received what little education he had at the academy of K nigsberg, from which he was expelled for riotous conduct. In 1714 he set out to seek his fortune in Russia, and unsuccessfully solicited a place at the shabby court of the Princess Charlotte of Brunswick-L neburg, the consort of the Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich. Returning to Mitau, he succeeded in gaining a footing at court there through one of his sisters, who was the fancy of the ruling minister, Peter Bestuzhev, whose established mistress was no less a person than the young duchess Anna Ivanovna. During his patron's absence, Biron, a handsome, insinuating fellow, succeeded in supplanting him in the favour of Anna, and procuring the disgrace and banishment of Bestuzhev and his family. From henceforth to the end of her life Biron's influence over the duchess was paramount. On the elevation of Anna to the Russian throne in 1730, Biren, who had in the meantime married Miss von Treiden, came to Moscow and received many honours and riches. At Anna's coronation (19 May 1730) he became grand-chamberlain, a count of the Empire, on which occasion he is said to have adopted the arms of the French ducal house of Biron, and was presented with an estate at Wenden with 50,000 crowns a year. He soon made himself cordially detested by Russians of every class. He was not indeed the monster of iniquity he is popularly supposed to have been. His vices were rather of the sordid than of the satanic order. He had i...http: //booksllc.net/?l=de