This figure's biographer described her "Amazon complex", helped by her habit of getting people to drive animals from a forest into a field, whereupon she would drive up in a carriage and shoot all of them.
This figure's biographer described her "Amazon complex", helped by her habit of getting people to drive animals from a forest into a field, whereupon she would drive up in a carriage and shoot all of them. Her wedding was paired with that of her uncle's favorite dwarf, and her teenaged husband died during the festivities of alcohol poisoning after getting into a drinking contest with that uncle. That husband had been the Duke of Courland. After the Supreme Privy Council put this woman in power, she promptly abolished it. Ivan Lazhechnikov wrote a novel about this ruler's court, which included the cabinet member Artemiy Volynsky and her lover Ernst Biron. That novel described a massive celebration culminating in the marriage of this ruler's servant, a hunchbacked Kalmyk named Buzheninova, and a jester of hers, Prince Mikhail Golitsyn, or Kvasnik; this woman forced the two to spend their wedding night naked in a house made of ice, where they almost died. For 10 points, name this crazy daughter of Ivan V and niece of Peter the Great who ruled Russia from 1730 to 1740.
This figure's biographer described her "Amazon complex", helped by her habit of getting people to drive animals from a forest into a field, whereupon she would drive up in a carriage and shoot all of them.
Anna {Ivanovna} (or {Anna Ioannovna} )