Having spent some time on Henry VIII for Sunday's episode, Alicia decided to highlight a truly terrible female monarch. Russian history has no shortage of bad rulers, but for sheer cavalier and capricious sadism, Empress Anna's 18th century reign of terror sets her apart as (perhaps) Russia's worst empress.

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