. A thousand years of Russian history. ^1. Tatars of the Mongol Period. EMPRESSES, REGENTS, AND FAVOURITES 131 the dead of night, the all-powerful Regent Biron was seizedand deprived of his position as well as of his repeats itself ; as when Mentchikov fell, so now noone was found ready to stand by the fallen statesman. Thesentence of death passed upon him by a special Council was,however, commuted into one of exile to Siberia by theGrand Duchess of Russia, Anna Leopoldovna, the newRegent (1740-1741). Miinich, the chief stage-manager to this drama, wasdisappointed in his ex

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. A thousand years of Russian history. ^1. Tatars of the Mongol Period. EMPRESSES, REGENTS, AND FAVOURITES 131 the dead of night, the all-powerful Regent Biron was seizedand deprived of his position as well as of his repeats itself ; as when Mentchikov fell, so now noone was found ready to stand by the fallen statesman. Thesentence of death passed upon him by a special Council was,however, commuted into one of exile to Siberia by theGrand Duchess of Russia, Anna Leopoldovna, the newRegent (1740-1741). Miinich, the chief stage-manager to this drama, wasdisappointed in his expectations ; the Regents husband,and not he, was made Generalissimo of the army, and hefound himself intrigued against by his colleague and Ostermann, who, though appointed High Admiral,was still allowed to direct the foreign policy of theEmpire. Baron Ostermann favoured Prussia, while theRegent clung to the Austrian alliance. Great complicationsarose from the fact that Russias allies—Prussia and Austria—went to war with o

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