The Tsarina's title-as-name is a little tribute to the badassery that is GI Joe's Baroness. According to the internet, the actual correct female form of Tsar is Tsaritsa, but in the end I figured the Tsarina herself doesn't have web access where she's from.
Here's some photos from around the web showing the sort of thing I had in mind for her dress.
As it turns out, electrical fields really do have an effect on fire, as discovered by some Harvard University chemists a few years ago. The real thing is pretty small-scale, but that's good enough for me to ramp it up to level awesome in the story.