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Anna Ioannovna and the Iron Curtain of Romanov Rule
In this episode of The Romanov Dynasty, Lucas and Luna step back from the well-trodden path of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great to examine the often-overlooked reign of Empress Anna Ioannovna (1730–1740). We begin with a brief look at the succession crisis after Peter's death, when the Supreme Privy Council tried to impose conditions that would have made Anna a figurehead. Her dramatic rejection of those 'Conditions' set the stage for an autocratic reign marked by the influence of her Baltic German favorite, Ernst Johann von Biron, and the notorious secret police, the…
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