This monarch's grand chancellor Alexei Bestuzhev nearly acquired Finland in the Treaty of Abo.
This ruler came to power in a coup organized by French physician/soldier of fortune Jean Armand de Lestocq. The so-called second "Miracle of the House of Brandenburg" was the sudden death of this ruler after a series of untreated dizzy spells. This monarch's grand chancellor Alexei Bestuzhev nearly acquired Finland in the Treaty of Abo. During this monarch's reign, Ivan Shuvalov established the Imperial Academy of Arts and Mikhail Lomonosov founded Moscow State University. This ruler ordered the flogging with birch rods of (*) her erstwhile nemesis Natalia Lopukhina, but did not execute her, because she had taken a vow never to sign a death warrant. Most of the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years War' was fought during the reign of this childless empress, who arranged for her idiot nephew Peter of Holstein-Gottorp, later Peter III, to marry his second cousin Sophia Augusta Frederica, later Catherine the Great. For 10 points, name this empress of Russia from 1741 to 1761.
This ruler came to power in a coup organized by French physician/soldier of fortune Jean Armand de Lestocq.
Empress Elizabeth [or Elizaveta Petrovna; or Yelisavet]