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Elizabeth could now undisturbedly enjoy her imperial splendor The

successor to the throne was assured, Anna Leopoldowna languished in the

fortress of Kol the little E his childish dreahts--ould dare an attempt to shake a throne which rested upon

such safe pillars of public favor, and which so many new-made counts and

barons protected with their broad shoulders and nervous arovern, no more occasion to tremble She

let sink the hand which, with a single stroke of the pen, could give

laws to ive theain took the heavy i it reaths of rant roses She

perland the

dearest interests of Russia She perovern with

unrestricted power, and was rejoiced when no one came to trouble her

about affairs of state or the interests of her people