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Anna Leopoldovna: The Regent Time Forgot
Before Catherine the Great, before Elizabeth, there was Anna Leopoldovna — the German-born regent who ruled Russia for barely a year, caught between a baby emperor, a scheming court, and the shadow of her own mother. In Episode 195 of The Romanov Dynasty, Lucas and Luna explore Anna's improbable rise: her marriage to Anton Ulrich of Brunswick, the coup that put her infant son Ivan VI on the throne, her disastrous alliance with the brilliant but hated Marshal Münnich, and the palace intrigue that ended in a freezing night in November 1741 when Elizabeth's guardsmen seized power. They…
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