ELIZABETH, EMPRESS OF RUSSIA

ELIZABETH, EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
   daughter of Peter the Great and Catharine I.; assisted Maria Theresa in the war of the Austrian Succession; opposed Frederick the Great in the Seven Years' War; indolent and licentious, she left the affairs of the State mainly in the hands of favourites (1709-1762).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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