Tsarina Elizabeth Petrovna: The Romanov Who Electrified the Court

The Romanov Dynasty: Rise, Power, and Bloody End — Fexingo History · Jun 6, 2026 · 7m · transcript

For most of us, the Romanov dynasty conjures Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, or the tragic Nicholas II. But between Peter's iron fist and Catherine's enlightenment lies one of the most colorful, eccentric, and genuinely transformative reigns in Russian history: that of Elizabeth Petrovna, Peter's youngest daughter. This episode dives into the glittering, chaotic world of the mid-eighteenth-century Russian court — a place of towering powdered wigs, all-night masquerades, and a tsarina who personally banned men from wearing facial hair under threat of a fine, but also built…