Peter the Great and Catherine I set Russia on a course of reform, but Anna Ivanova stopped it. She was a state terrorist who relied on secret police to keep her in power and she favored Germans over Russians as advisors. Her Wikipedia article is here.
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ca. 1555 Caterina de' Medici by ? (Galleria degli Uffizi - Firenze, Toscana, Italy)
1730s Anna Ivanova by ? (State Hermitage Museum - St. Petersburg, Russia)
1763 Catherine II by Feodor Rokotov (State Tretyakov Gallery - Moskva, Russia)
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