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Ivan VI of Russia

1740 - 1764

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Ivan VI Antonovich (Russian: Иван VI Антонович; 23 August [O.S. 12 August] 1740 – 16 July [O.S. 5 July] 1764), also known as Ioann Antonovich, was Emperor of Russia from October 1740 until he was overthrown by his cousin Elizabeth Petrovna in December 1741. He was only two months old when he was proclaimed emperor and his mother, Anna Leopoldovna, named regent, but the throne was seized in a coup after little more than a year. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan VI of Russia has received more than 2,294,898 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia. Ivan VI of Russia is the 823rd most popular politician (up from 910th in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from Russia (up from 109th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Russian Politician.

Ivan the Terrible was the first tsar of Russia, ruling from 1533 to 1584. He was known for his cruelty and violence, and is often considered one of the most brutal rulers in history.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 64

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ivan VI of Russia ranks 823 out of 19,576. Before him are Shapur I, Ardashir I, Bashar al-Assad, Habib Bourguiba, Kurt Waldheim, and Arthur Henderson. After him are Jahangir, Todor Zhivkov, Vajiralongkorn, Christian VIII of Denmark, Berke, and Ilham Aliyev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Ivan VI of Russia ranks 2. Before him is Marquis de Sade. After him are Giovanni Paisiello, Empress Go-Sakuramachi, Isabelle de Charrière, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Jeanne Baret, Johann van Beethoven, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Carl Michael Bellman, Giambattista Bodoni, and Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay. Among people deceased in 1764, Ivan VI of Russia ranks 3. Before him are Madame de Pompadour, and Jean-Philippe Rameau. After him are William Hogarth, Christian Goldbach, Pietro Locatelli, Johann Mattheson, Jean-Marie Leclair, Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Erik Pontoppidan, Francesco Algarotti, and William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan VI of Russia ranks 96 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Borodin (1833), Alexandra Kollontai (1872), Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), Mikhail Kalinin (1875), Alexis of Russia (1629), and Nikolai Bukharin (1888). After him are Ivan Konev (1897), Alexander Glazunov (1865), Lev Kamenev (1883), Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850), Alexander Alekhine (1892), and Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Ivan VI of Russia ranks 36. Before him are Feodor I of Russia (1557), Alexander Kerensky (1881), Martti Ahtisaari (1937), Dmitry Medvedev (1965), Alexis of Russia (1629), and Nikolai Bukharin (1888). After him are Lev Kamenev (1883), Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869), Tokhtamysh (1342), Sergey Lavrov (1950), Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan (1797), and Grigory Potemkin (1739).

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