The deliciously witty drama series ‘The Great’ tells the occasionally true story of Catherine II, Empress of Russia. It’s a wonderful example of why historic dramas should be taken as entertainment, not a history lesson. While playing fast and loose with history it actually sanitizes a lot of the scandal in her life by transforming Peter into a romantic antihero and making Catherine fall in love with him. In reality Catherine didn’t keep Peter around for a ‘will they, won’t they’ Hollywood romance. Her lover promptly strangled him in prison. Catherine the Great knew how to use her charm and sexuality, the only tools available to a woman of her time, both for her own advancement and her own pleasure. And while I love the great, it so far only captures a fraction of her true greatness. So let’s take a peek inside the imperial boudoir and get to know the Empress, her twisted relationship with Peter and her many lovers a little more intimately. And we’ll address that horrid rumor about the horse.
Sergei Saltykov
Stanislaw Poniatowski
Grigory Orlov
Alexander Vasilchikov
Grigory Potemkin
Pyotr Zavadovsky
Semyon Zorich
Ivan Rimsky-Korsakov
Alexander Lanskoy
Alexander Yermolov
Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov
Platon Zubov
Plus Peter’s Mistress, Elizaveta Vorontsova
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