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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1556 Catherine de Medici possibly by Agnolo Bronzino
1763 Catherine II by Feodor Rokotov
1730s Anna Ivanova
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