Empress Elizabth Petrovna of Russia daughter of Catherine the Great

Empress Elizabeth Petrovna (1709-1761) was the daughter of Peter the Great and Catherine I. Empress Elizabeth was as devoted to Russia as her father but lacked his European tastes and education. Her reign of power was a decadent affair involving endless shopping trips, palaces, hunting expeditions and an enormous national budget deficit. In 1741 Elizabeth made her ascent to the throne with the help of officers from one of the military troops. She arrested the young …

…two successful wars against the Ottoman Empire and occupied vast territories on Russia's southern boundaries, eventually advancing the country's border to the Black Sea. She died on November 6, 1796, and was buried in the Cathedral of the St. Peter and St. Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg. http://www.moscow-taxi.com/history/empress-elizabeth.html http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/4257/Cathpage1.html http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/4257/Cathlov.html http://members.aol.com/jktsn/manifest.htm