The read
It runs a compact 1h 24m.
Synopsis
Having enthroned the wife of Peter the Great and his mistress Catherine I, Menshikov receives unlimited power, thereby causing envy and indignation of his former allies in the coup. Taking advantage of his absence, they are plotting against His Serene Highness. But once again, luck accompanies the brave darling of fortune: having received a warning of mortal danger, he escapes arrest and enters the boudoir of the Empress.
Ratings
TMDB5.8/10
3 audience votes
Key crew
- Svetlana DruzhininaDirector
- Svetlana DruzhininaWriter
- Pavel FinnWriter
Cast
- Natalya YegorovaCatherine I
- Sergey ShakurovAlexander Menshikov
- Ekaterina NikitinaElizaveta Petrovna
- Irina LachinaGrand Duchess Anna Petrovna
- Dmitriy VerkeyenkoPeter II
- Aleksandr KorzhenkovHenning Friedrich von Bassewitz
- Nina RuslanovaAnna Ioannovna
- Aleksandr Lazarev Jr.Ernst Johann von Biron
- Andrey MezhulisCarl Frederick of Sweden
- Fyodor DobronravovФедор Суров (Fyodor Surov)
- Vladimir SoshalskyGeneral Saltykov
- Andrei DavydovAnton de Vieira
Themes
empire18th centuryhistorical dramarussiarussian empire