Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №2. Testament of the Empress

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.

• Svetlana DruzhininaDirector
• Svetlana DruzhininaWriter
• Pavel FinnWriter

• 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