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Internal Administration
For a short time after the death of Anna (1740) Biron maintained
an autocratic rule, assuming the title of His Highness, Regent of the
Russian Empire. But finally the people, jealous of seeing the
administration of the imperial rule confided to the hands of a
foreigner—and one too who, instead of exhibiting a sympathy in their
interests, treated them with the most flagrant tyranny—betrayed
universal discontent at the new order of things. It was held to be a
direct act of injustice to debar the duke of Brunswick from the
guardianship of his son; and a formidable party now rapidly sprang
up, prepared to espouse the rights of that prince. The popular
disaffection increased on all sides; but Biron had established his
spies in every direction, and was unsparing in the punishments
which he inflicted upon all those persons whom he had reason to
believe inimical to his government. The streets groaned with the
cries of the victims of the knout; the people fled before him, or, in an
agony of fear, prostrated themselves upon the earth as he advanced;
and the dungeons were filled with the unhappy objects of his
suspicions. It was calculated that, throughout the period of his
authority, including the reign of the empress Anna, no less than
twenty thousand persons were exiled to Siberia.
At length the smothered flame broke out, and the demands in
favour of Duke Ulrich took an affirmative shape. Count Munich,
disappointed in his expectations by the hypocritical Biron, warmly
embarked on the other side; and, by still affecting to be the friend of
the regent, he was enabled to render essential service in the
revolution which was now swiftly encircling the walls of the palace.
The confidence which the military placed in Munich gave increased
importance to his services; and, as he found that he had nothing to
expect from the regent, he attached himself zealously to Duke Ulrich
in the anticipation that he would ultimately be rewarded with the chief
command of the army, which was the station he had long eagerly
desired to obtain.
The revolution which was thus organised was promptly
accomplished. The regent was arrested in the middle of the night, in
his house, by a detachment of the guards; and the principal senators
assembled in the palace before daybreak, and acknowledged the
princess Anna as grand duchess of Russia, and guardian of her son
the infant emperor. This proceeding was the work of a few hours.
Biron was at first confined in the castle of Schlüsselburg, whence he
was removed as a prisoner and brought to trial for obtaining the
regency by improper means, for squandering the imperial treasures,
for treating with contumely the parents of the emperor, and for
violating the statutes and ordinances so as to throw the empire into
confusion. For these capital offences he was condemned to death;
but his sentence was mitigated to perpetual banishment to the
deserts of Siberia, where, in addition to the ordinary miseries of that
forlorn region, he was compelled to associate in the labours of the
numerous wretches whom he had himself condemned to the same
fate. [He was, however, set at liberty by Peter III, and Catherine II
ultimately restored to him the duchy of Courland.]