Catherine the Great (2015 TV series)
Catherine The Great is a 2015 Russian television series starring Yuliya Snigir as Catherine the Great. It was released in November 2015 on Channel One Russia.
Catherine The Great Екатерина Bеликая | |
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Genre | History Serial drama |
Created by | Igor Zaitsev |
Starring | Yuliya Snigir Natalia Surkova Pavel Derevyanko Sergey Shakurov Ilya Noskov Pavel Trubiner |
Country of origin | Russia |
Original language | Russian |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 12 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Ruben Dishdishyan |
Production location | Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast |
Editor | Goran Pavichevich |
Running time | 50 Minutes per episode |
Production company | Mars Media |
Release | |
Original network | 1TV |
Picture format | 1080i (16:9 HDTV) |
Audio format | Dolby Digital 5.1 |
Original release | 4 November – 12 November 2015 |
External links | |
Website |
Plot
The history of Catherine the Great from the moment she arrived in Russia as the new bride of Peter III and her ascent to the Russian throne.
Nearly 20 years of palace intrigues, conspiracies, the struggle for power and personal dramas.[1][2][3]
Cast
- Yuliya Snigir as Queen Catherine the Great
- Christina Kucherenko as Young Princes Sophie
- Masha Polienko as Princess Sophie as a child
- Natalia Surkova as Empress Yelizabeta Petrovna
- Pavel Derevyanko as Pyotr III Fyodorovich
- Ilya Savichev as Young Prince Peter
- Ivan Shmakov as Prince Peter as a child
- Sergey Shakurov as Count Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin
- Ilya Noskov as Count Sergei Saltykov
- Pavel Trubiner as Grigory Orlov
- Mark Bogatyrev as Vasily Zalessky
- Roman Madyanov as Alexander Shuvalov
- Semyon Strugachyov as Lestocq
- Olga Medynich as Vorontsova
- Dmitry Ulyanov as Grigory Potemkin
- Victor Terelya as Peter Shuvalov
- Richard Lepers as Stanislaw Poniatowski
- Vladimir Matveev as Apraxin
- Svetlana Frolova as Ekaterina Dashkova
- Ivan Batarev as Alexey Orlov
- Bastian Sierich as Frederick the Great
Production
Filming
Filming was completed from December 2013 to August 2014 in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast (including Peter and Paul Fortress, Constantine Palace, Gatchina, and Lenfilm Studios).[3][4]
At the moment the crew is working on scenarios of the second and third season. They will tell the life of the Empress from 1762 to 1775 and from 1775 to 1796, respectively.[2] The second season was expected to be finished in 2016.[5][6]
References
- Великая (Екатерина Великая, телесериал, Россия, 2015). Archived 17 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine(in Russian)
- Юлия Снигирь сыграет Екатерину Великую в телесериале.(in Russian)
- Сериал Великая (2015).(in Russian)
- На ТВ покажут исторический сериал «Великая».(in Russian)
- Сериал Великая, 2 сезон.(in Russian)
- Сериал Великая, 3 сезон.(in Russian)
External links
- Official Website
- Official Trailer on YouTube