Conditions (Russia)

When the Empress returned to Russia, she revoked her approval of the Conditions and dissolved the Supreme Privy Council on the 20 February.

The members of the council were removed from government and exiled or repressed paving the way for Anna to become an absolute monarch in the model of her uncle Peter the Great.

The Conditions, according to contemporaries, were only a preliminary document, as a squeeze of the more extensive radical plan developed by the Prince Golitsyn was not approved by the Secret Council.

Dmitry Golitsyn, the main author of the Conditions, did not directly report that the power of the Supreme Secret Council was temporary and so most of the high-ranking officials, as well as many young lower officers, thought that Golitsyn and the Supreme Secret Council wanted to usurp power.

The Conditions acted as a constitution binding the monarch in relation to declarations of war, the signing of treaties, the imposing of new taxes, the appointing of officers to ranks higher than plolkovnik (colonel), the depriving and granting of estates, appointments to the court ranks and the use of public revenues.