About the book: 2015 / Elizaveta Petrovna was born in the Kolomna Palace on December 18, 1709. She was the illegitimate daughter of the emperor, because her mother, the future Catherine I, and father Peter I were not yet officially married. Two years after the birth of Elizabeth, Peter and Catherine got married and the girl became a princess. The daughter took after her father in determination. Taking advantage of the decline in authority and influence of power during the regency of Anna Leopoldovna, on the night of November 25 (December 6), 1741, 31-year-old Elizabeth appeared at the barracks of the grenadiers of the Preobrazhensky regiment and roused the soldiers to a coup. Empress Elizaveta Petrovna more than once proclaimed that she was continuing her father’s policy. Basically it was like this. The role of the Senate, which received the right of legislative initiative, was restored. The second census of the tax-paying population took place, internal customs duties and some fees were abolished. This led to a significant revival of trade relations between the regions. The first Russian banks were founded - Dvoryansky (Loan), Merchant and Medny (State). In 1754, a commission was created to draw up the code, which completed its work by the end of Elizabeth’s reign, but the process of transformation was interrupted by the Seven Years’ War. It was Elizabeth who issued a decree in 1744 prohibiting fast driving around the city, and those who cursed in public were fined. Elizabeth became the last representative of the Romanov dynasty in the direct female line. And the male line was cut short with the death of Peter II in 1730. Elizabeth appointed her nephew (the son of Anna Petrovna's elder sister), Duke Karl-Peter Ulrich of Holstein, as the official heir to the throne. Upon arrival in Russia, he was renamed in the Russian manner as Peter Fedorovich, and the words “grandson of Peter the Great” were included in the official title".