 ... to secure her own power and safety, she put the child into a strong fortress, where he remained imprisoned upward of twenty years, and was at last put to death by his guards, by order of Catherine II., the widow of Peter III. This Peter was son of...  A Shorter Malory - Trang 188bởi Arthur (King.) - 1819 - 242 trangXem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
 | Maria Elizabeth Budden - 1855 - 474 trang
...killed by order of his father, Peter the Great. Anne. daughter of Peter the Great, and successor to his aunt, the Empress Elizabeth. Ivan was a beautiful...artless youth. When his merciless keepers entered his dungeon, he made a brave resistance, and fell, mangled with many wounds, in the twenty-fourth year... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1868 - 428 trang
...II., the widow of Peter III. This Peter was son of Anne, daughter of Peter the Great, and successor to his aunt, the Empress Elizabeth. Ivan was a beautiful...Catherine II.'s reign, 1764. Read his tragical history in 2p " Castera's Life of Catherine II.," or in " Coxe's Travels in Eussia." CHAPTER LXX. GEORGE III.... | |
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