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Holmogore is an important port in Russia, close to Arctic Ocean . The climate is severe all year round, and the temperature in winter is always minus 20 to 30 degrees Celsius. It makes a three or four-year-old child live alone since childhood and has no family care. You can imagine how miserable his fate is. He is the protagonist of this article, The ninth Tsar of the Russian Empire , Ivan VI.
Here, this young boy suffered inhuman torture. He was locked in a dungeon where he could not see his fingers, sitting facing the wall all day long. No one is allowed to contact and communicate with him, and no one provides him with the necessary and minimum cultural education.
He doesn't know who he is? Where did he come from? Why did he commit a crime? Who are his parents? He doesn't know that his mother has left him and left others. He doesn't know that his father is still alive, but like him, he is imprisoned in another dungeon.
Only at occasional nights can he be allowed to let out the wind for a short time, and he is blindfolded and accompanied by darkness. In the dark night sky, have the stars and the moon become black? Ah, I seem to have seen the sun when I was one year old. Is the round and bright sun now black? Is there only me in this world Human? How lonely I am!
In the eyes of his guards, this boy was a "Prisoner No. 1" who had no name, no parents, no knowledge of what crime he had committed, and needed to sit in the bottom of the prison. In the dark dungeon, this "Prisoner No. 1" gradually grew up, from a young prisoner to a young prisoner, to a young prisoner, this is the history of his life.
Time flies for more than ten years. For "Prisoner No. 1", every day, every minute, and every second is a long time. He has grown into a sixteen-year-old boy. Of course, he doesn't know how long it has passed, how old he is, and what year it is.
His eyes were dull, expressionless, very thin, and seriously malnourished. In the cold winter, he had no shoes, barefoot boards, his hair was messy and dirty, and his body was worn out. Amid the whispers of the guards, the news that "Prisoner No. 1" was detained in Holmogore.
756, "Prisoner No. 1" was secretly transferred to the Shlisburg Fortress, which is the place known as the Bastille of the Tsarist Russia Empire, and it is also the prison that Russia is known for its harshness. There, he was under stricter supervision, and even the senior commander of the fortress did not know the true identity of this "Prisoner No. 1".
The traces of his reign were wiped out one by one - all coins, documents, and publications with his name were processed, and of course some survived, and became rare and rare cultural relics.
(The silver ruble issued during the reign of Ivan VI, engraved with the words "1741")
Time came in 1762, Elizabeth I died, and his nephew Peter III succeeded to the throne. The Tsar was also a German. He felt that Yi Liu was his fellow villager and felt very sympathetic to him. He not only visited him in person, but also planned to improve his treatment.
At this time, Yi Liu had been imprisoned for a full twenty-one year, and he had grown into a twenty-two-year-old young prisoner. More than 7,000 days and nights, a faint light finally appeared in the darkness that could not be seen at first sight.
(Peter III)
However, this light was finally extinguished. Less than half a year after becoming the throne, Peter III also became the deposed emperor. A few days later, the tsar died mysteriously. The new Tsar became his queen - Ye Katerina II (Ye Erjie), the darkness in the Shrisburg dungeon became boundless again.
Perhaps out of curiosity, Ye Erjie decided to go and see this "Prisoner No. 1". She came to the dungeon and saw a very small window covered with iron nails, steel bars and wooden strips.Through the gap, weeds can be seen outside. In the dark cell, a simple bed built with wooden strips was dirty and very thin.
Yi Liu, who was standing in front of Ye Erjie, was a 22-year-old young man who looked like a beggar in his teens due to long-term severe malnutrition. He was pale, skinny, bent over and hunched, and smelled so badly. Wearing a shabby seafar uniform like beggars, it was this dirt-filled military uniform, or I don’t know which kind-hearted person gave it to him.
(Ye Katerina II)
In front of Ye Erjie, "Prisoner No. 1" suddenly danced and made strange sounds that no one could understand. Obviously, just like his cell was shabby and chaotic, the intelligence and nerves of this "Prisoner No. 1" were also confused. After being isolated from the world for a long time, he was already crazy...
Gradually, the news that "Prisoner No. 1" was still known. Even though he has been detained for so many years, Yi Liu still has a noble family who supports him. After he was transferred to several prisons in succession, the nobles were still secretly planning to rescue him and welcome him to restore the throne. If it fails, he must be saved abroad, and this plan will continue until Queen Elizabeth's death.
764, garrison Lieutenant Mirovic won the support of some colleagues and decided to plan to rescue Yi Liu, intending to restore the deposed emperor. They contacted the guards inside and outside, launched an armed riot, surrounded the prison, captured Shlisburg's commander Berednikov, and demanded the release of Ilio.
This led to Yiliu's death. Because Ye Erjie once issued a secret order that unless she had her handwritten letter, the living Yi Liu could not be handed over to others; if someone robbed the prison, the person who waited for Yi Liu would be death.
So, the rescue finally aborted. On July 16, 1764, the 24-year-old Ivan VI died at the hands of the commander Chekin, who mastered the Queen's Secret Order. Mirovic and his supporters were also taken to for treason and executed for treason.
After Ivan VI died, his body was secretly transported away, and I still don’t know where to bury it (more probably because I was fed wild dog ). He is also the only tsar among the emperors of all generations of Russia who have never seen the corpse.
Yi Liu's life is the life of a prisoner, and all his stories are darkness and despair. His greatest wish in his life was to breathe the fresh and free air. He waited for more than 8,000 days and nights in the dark dungeon, but what he waited for was the end of his life. These short and long twenty-three years, perhaps for him, only death is true liberation!
If life can be chosen, I think he would rather not have come to this world!
741 At the end of 11741, Yiliu's mother Anna Leopold gave birth to her eldest daughter in the palace. Soon, Yiliu's rule was overthrown. In the chaotic coup, Caterina's head fell heavily to the ground, losing her hearing from then on, and she could no longer hear any sound in the world.
Yiliu's parents and sister Katerina were detained in another dungeon and occasionally visited by local officials, so the place was a little spacious and there were several servants to serve, but the basic medicines and necessities of life were not guaranteed, and they were still isolated from the world for a long time in terms of external information.
746, the family of three here became a family of six. The second daughter Elizabeth (1743), the second son Peter (1745) and the youngest son Alexey (1746) were all born in prison. Shortly after giving birth to his youngest son, Anna Leopold died of puerperal fever. Anton Ulrich, the former Duke of Brunswick, relied on each other in the dungeon with four children.
762, Ye Erjie gave Anton a hope and she allowed him to leave. Just as the thirsty man in the desert saw the spring, Anton was ecstatic, but then the additional conditions made his heart fall into the ice cave again: his children must stay. And his children were born in dungeons and grew up in dungeons. If they were not surprised, they would die in dungeons.
They are forbidden to learn any knowledge and culture, nor are they allowed to communicate with the outside world. They are all adults, but their intelligence is like children, and they have a strong spiritual dependence on his father.
Their bodies are very weak, Caterina is deaf and dumb, and have epilepsy; Peter is unbalanced, walking, shaking his legs, and tuberculosis; Alexey has frequent epilepsy; the only one who is slightly healthier is his second daughter Elizabeth.
Looking at the four pairs of desperate eyes, Anton rejected the queen's grace. If he lost the children, his freedom would lose its meaning.
The second daughter Elizabeth once made several wishes:
want to see what the grass and garden look like;
want to see what the woman outside looks like;
want to see what the street outside looks like;
want to know what the corset looks like, and hope to learn how to wear it.
774, after a long thirty-three years of detention, Yi Liu's father, sixty-year-old Anton, passed away. Because he could not see the sunshine all year round, he was completely blind before his death. The radiant, energetic and vibrant young Brunswick, who was once gloomy, left four children with a loss of thought, and went to another world with a haggard heart to find the light in the dream.
780, after the four siblings were detained for nearly forty years, the real dawn finally ushered in. Ye Erjie agreed to release them and sent them to Denmark . Why sent it to Denmark? Let's turn the hour hand forward for half a century. In 1729, Ferdinand II, Duke of Brunswick, welcomed their youngest daughter, Yuliani. In 1752, the twenty-three-year-old Yuliani married the widowed Denmark King Frederick V, and became the queen of Denmark. She was also the stepmother of five children.
772, she and the imperial physician Stringer undermined the regime of her mentally ill stepson Christian VII and became the regent queen mother who was in power behind the scenes.
Seeing the words Brunswick, I think everyone should be clear. That’s right, this Queen Mother Yuliani is Anton Ulrich’s sister, the aunt of Ivan VI and his four younger siblings. So the four siblings settled in Holsens, Jutland Peninsula, Denmark.
After forty years of alienation, Yuliani, the aunt, has no feelings for her nieces and nieces, so she naturally doesn't bother to care about them. She doesn't care about them at all and has never seen them once. In this case, we cannot expect the Danes to look up to them in a high regard for the Queen Mother. But even so, compared to Holmogore Prison, it is already a day of escape.
782, the most healthy Elizabeth died the first time at the age of 39. Some people say that she had an illegitimate child with a guard when she was in Russia, but it is unknown.
787, the youngest brother Alexei passed away and lived to be 41 years old. The deaf and mute Caterina and Peter depended on each other. In Denmark, where I am unfamiliar with my four siblings, they are not in love, married and have children.
796, aunt Yuliani died. The reigning Denmark king was her stepson with bad relationship with her, so of course it was even more impossible for her to care about them. In 1798, Peter also passed away, and his elder sister Caterina lost all her relatives.
803, Caterina wrote to the then Tsar Alexander I: "I miss the days when I was imprisoned with my younger brothers and sisters. We were very happy at that time. Please allow me to go back to the prison."
In the twilight years of my life, this princess, who was over 60 years old, actually asked to return to the place where she had been imprisoned for nearly forty years - Holmogore Prison. That dark and cold prison has become the paradise in her dreams. Perhaps it is because only there is the remaining warmth of parents' love and family affection!
Tsar has no reply.
807, the sixty-six-year-old Caterina died in the abuse of her servants, and the tragedy of an era came to an end!
May they rest in peace in heaven!
(silhouettes of four children)
Note: After Yi Liu's mother passed away, Yi Liu's father Anton gave birth to several concubines with the maid in the dungeon, and Denmark refused to accept it. They are really born in the dungeon and die in the dungeon. The dungeon is their world, their whole life! !
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Previous articles:
If there is a next life No royal family - Ivan VI, Prisoner of Empire No. 1 (Part 1)
The Great Crown fell from the sky - Perverted Queen Anna I
Passersby of the Empire - Short-lived Tsar Peter II
From the maid to the czar - The legendary life of Caterina I (Part 1)
From the maid to the czar - Caterina I The legendary life of Na I (Part 2)
Russian royal family: The young emperor - the past of Peter the Great (Part 1)
Russian royal family: The young emperor - the past of Peter the Great (Part 2)
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