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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:05,043 --> 00:00:07,546 ♪ (THEME MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 2 00:01:11,842 --> 00:01:15,214 (DOGS WHIMPERING) 3 00:01:16,647 --> 00:01:19,849 -Here's the account, madame. -CATHERINE: Mm. Good, good. 4 00:01:19,918 --> 00:01:21,650 POTEMKIN: Matushka! 5 00:01:21,719 --> 00:01:23,085 (CATHERINE SIGHS) 6 00:01:23,154 --> 00:01:25,120 POTEMKIN: Matushka! Please! 7 00:01:25,189 --> 00:01:27,755 CATHERINE: I'm coming, I'm coming! 8 00:01:27,824 --> 00:01:29,690 -(POTEMKIN GRUNTING) -What are you doing? 9 00:01:29,759 --> 00:01:31,793 Where have they put my stockings? 10 00:01:31,862 --> 00:01:34,096 PETER ZAVADOVSKY: Your stockings, sir? 11 00:01:34,165 --> 00:01:35,796 What the fuck is he doing here? 12 00:01:35,865 --> 00:01:38,703 -CATHERINE: Well, we're working. -What? Oh, out! 13 00:01:40,337 --> 00:01:42,270 -(POTEMKIN SIGHS) -ZAVADOVSKY: Your Majesty. 14 00:01:42,339 --> 00:01:43,973 POTEMKIN: Oh, where are they? 15 00:01:44,042 --> 00:01:46,274 They're here. Here. 16 00:01:46,343 --> 00:01:47,779 (POTEMKIN SIGHS) Oh, thank goodness. 17 00:01:48,913 --> 00:01:50,278 Soup. 18 00:01:50,347 --> 00:01:52,314 Yes. How does one get soup on one's stocking? 19 00:01:52,383 --> 00:01:53,949 By eating soup in bed. 20 00:01:54,018 --> 00:01:56,888 (BOTH CHUCKLE) 21 00:01:58,055 --> 00:01:59,291 Come here. 22 00:02:02,326 --> 00:02:04,526 -I'm still hungry. -(CATHERINE CHUCKLES) 23 00:02:04,595 --> 00:02:07,195 -Are you? Stop. (CHUCKLES) -Yes. 24 00:02:07,264 --> 00:02:09,830 -Yeah. -(LAUGHING) Come on. 25 00:02:09,899 --> 00:02:12,800 The council meeting. Come on. We're late. 26 00:02:12,869 --> 00:02:14,669 -POTEMKIN: I was thinking... -CATHERINE: Mm? 27 00:02:14,738 --> 00:02:16,138 POTEMKIN: We need a place to live. 28 00:02:16,207 --> 00:02:18,340 (SCOFFS) This is not enough? 29 00:02:18,409 --> 00:02:20,209 No! No, no. A home. A home! 30 00:02:20,278 --> 00:02:22,111 -This is home. -Well... 31 00:02:22,180 --> 00:02:23,712 -Your signature. -A house... 32 00:02:23,781 --> 00:02:25,414 -(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -...is not a home, and a-- 33 00:02:25,483 --> 00:02:26,915 a home is not a palace. 34 00:02:26,984 --> 00:02:31,920 A palace, and this is something I can be quite sure of, 35 00:02:31,989 --> 00:02:33,421 is not a house! 36 00:02:33,490 --> 00:02:36,558 Matushka, a word, please! In private! 37 00:02:36,627 --> 00:02:38,594 In private, if there is such a thing in this place! 38 00:02:38,663 --> 00:02:41,096 It's the council, Grishenka! 39 00:02:41,165 --> 00:02:43,598 Buttons will be done up. 40 00:02:43,667 --> 00:02:47,368 Ah, yes. Someone's starting to sound like my wife. 41 00:02:47,437 --> 00:02:49,909 (WHISPERING) Some people say I am your wife. 42 00:02:52,777 --> 00:02:54,043 (BANGING) 43 00:02:54,112 --> 00:02:55,543 (BELL RINGING) 44 00:02:55,612 --> 00:02:57,145 CATHERINE: You could do that to call them to order. 45 00:02:57,214 --> 00:02:59,848 -(CATHERINE CHUCKLES) -Yes, or shoot them, possibly. 46 00:02:59,917 --> 00:03:01,784 Well, you mustn't think they hate you. 47 00:03:01,853 --> 00:03:03,252 They don't hate you. 48 00:03:03,321 --> 00:03:05,420 I won't let them hate you. 49 00:03:05,489 --> 00:03:08,458 Oh. Oh, yes. Poor little lap dog, eh? 50 00:03:08,527 --> 00:03:09,828 (POTEMKIN CHUCKLES) 51 00:03:11,195 --> 00:03:12,327 (CATHERINE LAUGHS) 52 00:03:12,396 --> 00:03:14,330 Little lap dog's gonna make a speech. 53 00:03:14,399 --> 00:03:16,331 Yes, I'm, uh... 54 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:18,533 I'm Minister Panin. 55 00:03:18,602 --> 00:03:20,802 Yes, and I'm gonna talk about Europe, and Europe, 56 00:03:20,871 --> 00:03:23,900 and in particular these Germans over here on our western front, 57 00:03:23,969 --> 00:03:25,774 our allies that keep us safe. 58 00:03:25,843 --> 00:03:28,377 But then I look at Russia, Matushka. 59 00:03:28,446 --> 00:03:32,780 I look down south, and I see Crimea, 60 00:03:32,849 --> 00:03:36,185 the Black Sea, vast tracts of empty land 61 00:03:36,254 --> 00:03:38,290 that we should be laying claim to. 62 00:03:42,060 --> 00:03:43,462 CATHERINE: Hm. 63 00:03:44,428 --> 00:03:46,095 -The Crimea. -POTEMKIN: Yes. 64 00:03:46,164 --> 00:03:47,830 That's always been a Russian dream. 65 00:03:47,899 --> 00:03:50,098 POTEMKIN: A port in the Black Sea. 66 00:03:50,167 --> 00:03:51,499 We could build a naval fleet, 67 00:03:51,568 --> 00:03:53,735 a fleet that would make us great. 68 00:03:53,804 --> 00:03:56,737 -(CATHERINE SIGHS) -POTEMKIN: A great nation. 69 00:03:56,806 --> 00:03:59,474 (WHISPERS) But do you think that's realistic? 70 00:03:59,543 --> 00:04:01,710 -Yes. -I mean really? 71 00:04:01,779 --> 00:04:04,046 Yes, of course. 72 00:04:04,115 --> 00:04:08,650 Well, we must be very diplomatic. 73 00:04:08,719 --> 00:04:11,919 Well, I'll be very devious. Yes, yes, yes. No, no. 74 00:04:11,988 --> 00:04:13,688 But I know Minister Panin loves the Germans, 75 00:04:13,757 --> 00:04:15,456 as does your son, the Grand Duke. 76 00:04:15,525 --> 00:04:16,925 Yes, I'll be-- I'll be diplomatic, 77 00:04:16,994 --> 00:04:18,593 -I'll be duplicitous-- -PANIN: All most 78 00:04:18,662 --> 00:04:21,262 important qualities in a statesman, Count Potemkin. 79 00:04:21,331 --> 00:04:22,563 CATHERINE: Um, Count Potemkin 80 00:04:22,632 --> 00:04:24,866 wishes to speak about foreign policy. 81 00:04:24,935 --> 00:04:27,436 POTEMKIN: Yes. I'm sure some of you already 82 00:04:27,505 --> 00:04:28,903 know my feelings on these matters. 83 00:04:28,972 --> 00:04:31,706 CATHERINE: Yes, we were just discussing the Crimea. 84 00:04:31,775 --> 00:04:34,777 Is Your Majesty prepared for another Turkish war? 85 00:04:34,846 --> 00:04:36,978 POTEMKIN: Well, we won the last one, 86 00:04:37,047 --> 00:04:38,213 if I recall. 87 00:04:38,282 --> 00:04:39,915 If the foreign minister is so worried 88 00:04:39,984 --> 00:04:41,449 about Europe's reaction, 89 00:04:41,518 --> 00:04:43,418 perhaps he might find other alliances. 90 00:04:43,487 --> 00:04:46,054 It's obviously a very risky idea, Your Majesty. 91 00:04:46,123 --> 00:04:49,557 -As minister of war-- -Foreign policy is... 92 00:04:49,626 --> 00:04:51,259 a most delicate and sensitive matter. 93 00:04:51,328 --> 00:04:55,498 I'm sure Your Majesty agrees that our alliance with Germany 94 00:04:55,567 --> 00:04:57,365 is of vital importance. 95 00:04:57,434 --> 00:05:00,202 -Europe is the thing. -POTEMKIN: Is it? 96 00:05:00,271 --> 00:05:01,669 Is it the only thing? 97 00:05:01,738 --> 00:05:03,171 PANIN: It certainly is important. 98 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:06,040 -ALEXEI ORLOV: It is. -Well, of course it is a factor. 99 00:05:06,109 --> 00:05:09,945 But Count Potemkin's proposals are very interesting. 100 00:05:10,014 --> 00:05:11,946 Thank you, Peter. 101 00:05:12,015 --> 00:05:15,751 So, I'm going to circulate a note from Peter Zavadosky 102 00:05:15,820 --> 00:05:18,657 that I want us to study in detail. 103 00:05:19,957 --> 00:05:23,558 CATHERINE: I would draw your attention to number four. 104 00:05:23,627 --> 00:05:27,362 Now, this is in relation to the election 105 00:05:27,431 --> 00:05:31,065 of governor generals in the provinces. 106 00:05:31,134 --> 00:05:34,865 You will see at number four we have General Kamensky, 107 00:05:34,934 --> 00:05:36,372 who's been suggested... 108 00:05:36,441 --> 00:05:38,978 (DIALOGUE FADES) 109 00:05:46,817 --> 00:05:48,350 Why didn't you support me in there? 110 00:05:48,419 --> 00:05:50,119 -It wasn't the right time. -Oh, please. 111 00:05:50,188 --> 00:05:51,787 When is the right time? 112 00:05:51,856 --> 00:05:54,956 Our future lies in the Crimea. 113 00:05:55,025 --> 00:05:57,825 With a port in the Black Sea, we'd become a major power. 114 00:05:57,894 --> 00:05:59,727 Well, it's my dream as well as yours, 115 00:05:59,796 --> 00:06:02,058 but do you think the French and the Germans and the English 116 00:06:02,127 --> 00:06:03,432 will let us get away with it? 117 00:06:03,501 --> 00:06:05,767 -I doubt it! -Yes. 118 00:06:05,836 --> 00:06:07,903 The whole of the land to the south can be ours. 119 00:06:07,972 --> 00:06:10,038 We take it; they will want to join us! 120 00:06:10,107 --> 00:06:11,272 (SCOFFS) Well... 121 00:06:11,341 --> 00:06:12,873 You may be right. 122 00:06:12,942 --> 00:06:15,643 But-- But what? Hm? You don't want to lose me? 123 00:06:15,712 --> 00:06:17,917 You don't want me to go off to war, is that it? 124 00:06:19,483 --> 00:06:22,484 I do love you. You know that. 125 00:06:22,553 --> 00:06:25,854 It's a great adventure, Matushka. 126 00:06:25,923 --> 00:06:28,123 -Are you tired of adventure? -Well, no one's asking me 127 00:06:28,192 --> 00:06:29,558 to go on an adventure. 128 00:06:29,627 --> 00:06:31,159 Oh, no, I stay here in the palace, 129 00:06:31,228 --> 00:06:33,694 and I write and I write and I write, and I-- 130 00:06:33,763 --> 00:06:36,466 I'm a graphomaniac, permanently in committee. 131 00:06:36,535 --> 00:06:37,769 Well, I want to run. 132 00:06:38,869 --> 00:06:40,768 I can't stand a life without adventure. 133 00:06:40,837 --> 00:06:44,072 (SIGHS) Well, you-- you-- you don't like your apartments here? 134 00:06:44,141 --> 00:06:47,375 They were Orlov's. Vasilchikov's before that. 135 00:06:47,444 --> 00:06:50,445 No, I don't like my fucking apartments. 136 00:06:50,514 --> 00:06:52,981 What-- What am-- What am I to you? 137 00:06:53,050 --> 00:06:55,317 Am I just someone that's supposed to-- What? 138 00:06:55,386 --> 00:06:57,887 Stand behind your chair at dinner, huh? 139 00:06:57,956 --> 00:07:00,516 Take you upstairs after the brandy? 140 00:07:00,585 --> 00:07:03,425 Give you a good fucking, is that what I'm here for? 141 00:07:03,494 --> 00:07:06,122 Hmm? Am I just the favorite? 142 00:07:06,191 --> 00:07:07,329 -I hate that word. -No! 143 00:07:07,398 --> 00:07:09,364 -I can't stand it. -No, no. Look-- 144 00:07:09,433 --> 00:07:12,234 You know. You know what you are. 145 00:07:12,303 --> 00:07:13,838 No. I don't know what I am. 146 00:07:15,072 --> 00:07:19,375 If I can find a way to make your idea work, 147 00:07:19,444 --> 00:07:21,580 we will do it. 148 00:07:28,486 --> 00:07:29,788 That's my woman. 149 00:07:30,522 --> 00:07:31,823 Come on. 150 00:07:32,490 --> 00:07:35,958 (CLOCK CHIMING) 151 00:07:36,027 --> 00:07:38,260 (LAUGHTER) 152 00:07:38,329 --> 00:07:40,963 Something worrying you, Andrei? 153 00:07:41,032 --> 00:07:43,831 -Do I look worried? -Yeah. 154 00:07:43,900 --> 00:07:46,229 Why should I be worried? Your wife's having a baby. 155 00:07:46,298 --> 00:07:49,938 -It's wonderful. -(PAUL LAUGHS) 156 00:07:50,007 --> 00:07:53,509 Oh, I want you to always, always 157 00:07:53,578 --> 00:07:55,177 be my best friend. 158 00:07:55,246 --> 00:07:56,812 You are part of our family. 159 00:07:56,881 --> 00:07:59,280 Of course, Your Excellency. 160 00:07:59,349 --> 00:08:01,549 Oh. Paul. (SNORTS) 161 00:08:01,618 --> 00:08:04,086 Of course. Your Excellency. 162 00:08:04,155 --> 00:08:07,222 I've finally done something to please my mother. 163 00:08:07,291 --> 00:08:08,961 I've given her a baby. 164 00:08:09,361 --> 00:08:10,695 A child! 165 00:08:11,563 --> 00:08:13,023 An heir! 166 00:08:13,092 --> 00:08:14,763 (PAUL LAUGHS LOUDLY) 167 00:08:14,832 --> 00:08:16,835 Will it look like me? 168 00:08:18,269 --> 00:08:19,735 That's my only worry. 169 00:08:19,804 --> 00:08:21,040 I'm sure it will. 170 00:08:21,967 --> 00:08:23,038 I hope it does. 171 00:08:23,107 --> 00:08:24,439 (ANDREI LAUGHS) 172 00:08:24,508 --> 00:08:26,175 ♪ (CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS) ♪ 173 00:08:26,244 --> 00:08:28,743 And we would like to extend a warm welcome 174 00:08:28,812 --> 00:08:33,348 to the ambassadors of the French and the German nations, 175 00:08:33,417 --> 00:08:38,821 who are bound to us both as partners and Europeans. 176 00:08:38,890 --> 00:08:41,390 Europe, Europe, Europe, Europe, Europe. 177 00:08:41,459 --> 00:08:42,857 It's all he goes on about. 178 00:08:42,926 --> 00:08:45,828 Somebody needs to remind him that we're Russian. 179 00:08:45,897 --> 00:08:47,862 I need to speak to Paul. I must find him. 180 00:08:47,931 --> 00:08:49,864 Oh, yes. Now that he's gonna give you an heir, I suppose 181 00:08:49,933 --> 00:08:51,733 -he must be spoken with. -Well, yes. You know important 182 00:08:51,802 --> 00:08:54,036 -that is to me. -Succession, of course. 183 00:08:54,105 --> 00:08:55,270 Only too well. 184 00:08:55,339 --> 00:08:57,339 If the man comes to power, I'm a dead man. 185 00:08:57,408 --> 00:08:59,940 Oh, don't exaggerate. You're being ridiculous. 186 00:09:00,009 --> 00:09:03,145 I'm not a natural courtier. I never will be. I'm Russian. 187 00:09:03,214 --> 00:09:04,580 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 188 00:09:04,649 --> 00:09:05,914 Look at them. 189 00:09:05,983 --> 00:09:08,083 No, no, no. Look at them. Look at them. 190 00:09:08,152 --> 00:09:10,485 Waiting for me to trip over my own cock. 191 00:09:10,554 --> 00:09:12,520 Dressed to kill, literally. 192 00:09:12,589 --> 00:09:14,155 Should've worn my bearskin. 193 00:09:14,224 --> 00:09:17,557 -Oh, don't be like this. -Don't be like what? 194 00:09:18,429 --> 00:09:19,594 Don't be like what? 195 00:09:19,663 --> 00:09:21,563 -They're arguing. -POTEMKIN: Huh? 196 00:09:21,632 --> 00:09:23,332 I think Potemkin wants to push her 197 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,834 to let him invade the Crimea. You heard him at the council. 198 00:09:26,903 --> 00:09:28,804 So that he can fight another Turkish war 199 00:09:28,873 --> 00:09:30,472 and distinguish himself. 200 00:09:30,541 --> 00:09:33,140 She won't let him. 201 00:09:33,209 --> 00:09:36,812 Disagreeing about politics. Very dangerous for Potemkin. 202 00:09:36,881 --> 00:09:40,148 Madame is all about politics. 203 00:09:40,217 --> 00:09:42,687 Do you think she even likes men? 204 00:09:43,753 --> 00:09:45,281 She eats them and spits them out. 205 00:09:45,350 --> 00:09:46,989 Well, look at my poor brother. 206 00:09:47,058 --> 00:09:49,991 Potemkin almost certainly can't satisfy her. 207 00:09:50,060 --> 00:09:54,296 I am told that she requires her men in teams of 12. 208 00:09:54,365 --> 00:09:56,264 They do it in relays, 209 00:09:56,333 --> 00:09:59,771 and only trained athletes need apply. 210 00:10:01,472 --> 00:10:04,973 A grandchild is what I want most in this world. 211 00:10:05,042 --> 00:10:06,875 I am glad you're happy, Mother. 212 00:10:06,944 --> 00:10:10,078 -And happy you are glad. -(CATHERINE CHUCKLES) 213 00:10:10,147 --> 00:10:13,281 -(BOTH CHUCKLE) -ANDREI: Natalia! Natalia! 214 00:10:13,350 --> 00:10:15,054 (NATALIA GIGGLES) 215 00:10:16,554 --> 00:10:19,922 Yes, a grandchild. What a bond. 216 00:10:19,991 --> 00:10:22,658 And who cares who the father is? 217 00:10:22,727 --> 00:10:24,760 The hypocrisy of family. 218 00:10:24,829 --> 00:10:27,290 Well, is yours any different? 219 00:10:27,359 --> 00:10:28,896 -Your Majesty. -Yes? 220 00:10:28,965 --> 00:10:31,333 The German ambassador has arrived. Waiting to see... 221 00:10:31,402 --> 00:10:33,468 -F-- What am I doing here? -(GLASS SMASHES) 222 00:10:33,537 --> 00:10:35,074 POTEMKIN: Wasting my time! 223 00:10:38,308 --> 00:10:43,011 Grigory, Grigory, if it is this Crimea business 224 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:45,213 that's making you so angry, I will find a way! 225 00:10:45,282 --> 00:10:47,048 -I always do. -Who gives a fuck about the Crimea? 226 00:10:47,117 --> 00:10:48,450 You think all I care about is the Crimea? 227 00:10:48,519 --> 00:10:51,119 All Europe is passionate about Crimea, Auntie! 228 00:10:51,188 --> 00:10:52,788 -POTEMKIN: Huh? -Some of them even know 229 00:10:52,857 --> 00:10:54,056 how to find it on a map. 230 00:10:54,125 --> 00:10:56,592 It's more than that, and you know it. 231 00:10:56,661 --> 00:10:58,093 Who was that boy up there? 232 00:10:58,162 --> 00:10:59,862 Huh? Why is he always hanging around? 233 00:10:59,931 --> 00:11:01,563 Because she likes him! 234 00:11:01,632 --> 00:11:03,298 -Ah! -Leave us, Fool! 235 00:11:03,367 --> 00:11:04,800 Peter. Peter Zavadovsky. 236 00:11:04,869 --> 00:11:06,301 -Oh! -You know he's not important 237 00:11:06,370 --> 00:11:08,836 -to me. How can you-- -Oh, it's Peter, now! Peter! 238 00:11:08,905 --> 00:11:11,206 -No-- Where are you going? -I'm going to get drunk, 239 00:11:11,275 --> 00:11:12,808 with him! 240 00:11:12,877 --> 00:11:14,409 You have more vodka, Fool? 241 00:11:14,478 --> 00:11:16,411 Never leave the home without it. 242 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:18,446 That's why I don't have a home. 243 00:11:18,515 --> 00:11:21,851 It's the mother we never had, Matushka. 244 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:23,251 No-- You come back here. 245 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:26,191 Grishenka, you come back here right now! 246 00:11:30,094 --> 00:11:33,232 (DRUNKEN SINGING IN THE DISTANCE) 247 00:11:44,742 --> 00:11:46,245 POTEMKIN: (MUMBLING) Empress... 248 00:11:47,946 --> 00:11:49,945 Where the f... 249 00:11:50,014 --> 00:11:51,883 Where the fuck am I? 250 00:11:52,316 --> 00:11:53,352 Oh... 251 00:11:54,079 --> 00:11:55,254 Oh... 252 00:11:56,388 --> 00:11:57,822 (GROANS) 253 00:11:58,590 --> 00:12:00,192 (GRUNTS) 254 00:12:15,405 --> 00:12:17,706 -PAUL: Mother... She, uh... -CATHERINE: Hm? 255 00:12:17,775 --> 00:12:19,211 She's in labor. 256 00:12:25,615 --> 00:12:28,520 (INDISTINCT PANICKED CHATTER) 257 00:12:33,918 --> 00:12:35,827 -What-- What's going on? -It's the Crown Princess. 258 00:12:36,394 --> 00:12:38,497 (SCREAMS) 259 00:12:43,401 --> 00:12:44,500 How long? 260 00:12:44,569 --> 00:12:45,834 Too long, Your Majesty. 261 00:12:45,903 --> 00:12:47,472 -(NATALIA SOBBING) -Too long. 262 00:12:51,909 --> 00:12:53,875 -(NATALIA SCREAMING) -How is she? 263 00:12:53,944 --> 00:12:55,277 CATHERINE: You'll get through it, my darling. 264 00:12:55,346 --> 00:12:57,212 The Crown Princess is experiencing 265 00:12:57,281 --> 00:12:58,813 -some difficulties in labor-- -No! 266 00:12:58,882 --> 00:13:01,183 Her Majesty. How's the Empress Catherine? 267 00:13:01,252 --> 00:13:03,785 She is watching, Your Excellency, 268 00:13:03,854 --> 00:13:05,220 by the bedside. 269 00:13:05,289 --> 00:13:07,990 She asks that only immediate family be present. 270 00:13:08,059 --> 00:13:11,463 (NATALIA SCREAMING) 271 00:13:24,042 --> 00:13:25,844 (LOUD KNOCKING ON DOOR) 272 00:13:28,579 --> 00:13:29,809 (POTEMKIN SIGHS) 273 00:13:35,552 --> 00:13:38,921 (SIGHS) It's me, it's her, it's hopeless. 274 00:13:38,990 --> 00:13:41,217 (SIGHS) She's got this new assistant. 275 00:13:41,286 --> 00:13:42,327 Zavadovsky? 276 00:13:43,961 --> 00:13:45,994 -He's no threat to you. -Yeah. 277 00:13:46,063 --> 00:13:48,067 You're the one she loves. It... 278 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:51,900 -It's complicated. -It shouldn't be complicated, 279 00:13:51,969 --> 00:13:53,234 that's the point. 280 00:13:53,303 --> 00:13:54,803 Love should be simple, or it isn't love. 281 00:13:54,872 --> 00:13:56,538 Why are you talking like a schoolgirl? 282 00:13:56,607 --> 00:13:57,973 Because that's how she makes me feel. 283 00:13:58,042 --> 00:13:59,541 Like a schoolgirl. 284 00:13:59,610 --> 00:14:01,776 She never listens to my ideas and I'm not prepared 285 00:14:01,845 --> 00:14:03,411 to sit around and be her lap dog. 286 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:07,617 -And so, you argue. -So it seems. 287 00:14:07,686 --> 00:14:09,852 She can't bear arguments. 288 00:14:09,921 --> 00:14:11,353 Well, she's fucking good at them! 289 00:14:11,422 --> 00:14:13,088 -(COUNTESS BRUCE LAUGHS) -She always has things to do. 290 00:14:13,157 --> 00:14:15,457 Well, tell her you have things to do as well. 291 00:14:15,526 --> 00:14:18,388 -She'll understand that. -But I don't. That's the point. 292 00:14:18,457 --> 00:14:20,128 You're ambitious, and... 293 00:14:20,197 --> 00:14:23,633 in the end, she doesn't like people 294 00:14:23,702 --> 00:14:25,635 who stand and wait. 295 00:14:25,704 --> 00:14:27,202 POTEMKIN: Hm. 296 00:14:27,271 --> 00:14:31,106 Being yourself is the only way you'll hold onto her. 297 00:14:31,175 --> 00:14:32,411 What are you doing? 298 00:14:35,446 --> 00:14:36,546 A quick one? 299 00:14:36,615 --> 00:14:38,213 We shouldn't. I love her. 300 00:14:38,282 --> 00:14:41,150 A quick one wouldn't hurt anyone. 301 00:14:41,219 --> 00:14:42,952 You're a terrible woman. 302 00:14:43,021 --> 00:14:44,623 (COUNTESS BRUCE LAUGHS) 303 00:14:54,065 --> 00:14:55,935 Does she have any chance? 304 00:15:02,541 --> 00:15:04,109 And the baby? 305 00:15:12,517 --> 00:15:14,253 Oh, Paul. 306 00:15:21,291 --> 00:15:23,095 CATHERINE: She died. 307 00:15:24,696 --> 00:15:26,331 And the baby died too. 308 00:15:26,964 --> 00:15:28,200 Oh. 309 00:15:29,395 --> 00:15:30,569 I'm very sorry. 310 00:15:32,870 --> 00:15:34,539 They've opened her body up. 311 00:15:35,874 --> 00:15:37,109 It was a boy. 312 00:15:38,810 --> 00:15:40,545 A healthy boy. 313 00:15:42,113 --> 00:15:43,983 I wanted to see it. 314 00:15:45,850 --> 00:15:47,478 Him. 315 00:15:47,547 --> 00:15:49,621 I wanted to see him. 316 00:15:51,623 --> 00:15:52,624 Come here. 317 00:15:56,060 --> 00:15:58,230 I'll come and see him with you. 318 00:15:58,997 --> 00:16:00,732 Do you want to do that? 319 00:16:03,935 --> 00:16:06,005 Am I part of your life? 320 00:16:06,737 --> 00:16:08,170 If you want to be. 321 00:16:08,239 --> 00:16:10,071 I can't be if you won't let me be. 322 00:16:10,140 --> 00:16:11,673 (CATHERINE GROANS) 323 00:16:11,742 --> 00:16:15,777 Backwards and forwards and round and round and round in circles. 324 00:16:15,846 --> 00:16:17,046 That's how we go. 325 00:16:17,115 --> 00:16:19,251 I mean, what is the point of it all? 326 00:16:20,584 --> 00:16:23,414 I guess there comes a moment in any affair... 327 00:16:23,483 --> 00:16:24,756 "Any affair"? 328 00:16:25,757 --> 00:16:27,326 Is that all we are? 329 00:16:29,627 --> 00:16:32,122 It can't go on. 330 00:16:32,191 --> 00:16:35,025 It can't continue. You don't know why, and you... 331 00:16:35,094 --> 00:16:37,632 we do things and we don't know why we do them. 332 00:16:37,701 --> 00:16:41,336 You reach a wall and you can't see beyond. 333 00:16:41,405 --> 00:16:43,338 And we've reached that point, have we? 334 00:16:43,407 --> 00:16:44,572 Well, you... (SCOFFS) 335 00:16:44,641 --> 00:16:46,574 You choose a fine time to tell me. 336 00:16:46,643 --> 00:16:48,576 Well, in a sense, I don't think we'll ever reach that point. 337 00:16:48,645 --> 00:16:52,217 I just... I never want to leave you, I... 338 00:16:53,651 --> 00:16:55,050 may have to. 339 00:16:55,119 --> 00:16:57,853 Well, we all have to learn how to die. 340 00:16:57,922 --> 00:16:59,224 Yes. 341 00:16:59,957 --> 00:17:01,660 Yes. Poor Natalia. 342 00:17:03,027 --> 00:17:06,065 -She-- -I meant us, Grishenka. 343 00:17:09,033 --> 00:17:10,398 (SERVANTS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY) 344 00:17:10,467 --> 00:17:13,572 Well, I have to go. You can come if you want. 345 00:17:19,276 --> 00:17:20,908 PAUL: (SOBBING) It's a judgment of God. 346 00:17:20,977 --> 00:17:22,544 -PANIN: Your Excellency-- -(SNIFFLES) I'm being punished. 347 00:17:22,613 --> 00:17:24,379 -I'm a bad person. -You mustn't-- 348 00:17:24,448 --> 00:17:29,818 A mother punishes her husband, and her son punishes his mother 349 00:17:29,887 --> 00:17:33,083 for what he thinks that she did to his-- his father, 350 00:17:33,152 --> 00:17:35,719 and-- and then the curse goes down the family, 351 00:17:35,788 --> 00:17:37,359 and misery gets passed on... 352 00:17:37,428 --> 00:17:39,561 (SNIFFLES) ...from generation to generation. 353 00:17:39,630 --> 00:17:43,365 I have been speaking to the doctors, Your Excellency. 354 00:17:43,434 --> 00:17:46,969 You may see the body of your son, 355 00:17:47,038 --> 00:17:48,273 should you so wish. 356 00:17:48,673 --> 00:17:49,741 My son. 357 00:17:53,578 --> 00:17:54,613 My son. 358 00:18:09,994 --> 00:18:11,863 How I longed for this child. 359 00:18:13,364 --> 00:18:15,300 And yet it's not a child. 360 00:18:17,168 --> 00:18:18,803 'Cause he's not here. 361 00:18:19,904 --> 00:18:22,174 He didn't even draw breath. 362 00:18:31,115 --> 00:18:32,517 PAUL: My son. 363 00:19:01,245 --> 00:19:04,140 There is so little time. 364 00:19:04,209 --> 00:19:07,950 Let us at least try to love one another. 365 00:19:08,019 --> 00:19:10,355 (STIFLING SOBS) I'll try. 366 00:19:12,557 --> 00:19:13,658 Yes. 367 00:19:18,195 --> 00:19:19,731 (CATHERINE SIGHS) 368 00:19:26,503 --> 00:19:29,339 Love is so important. Don't you agree? 369 00:19:29,408 --> 00:19:30,642 POTEMKIN: Mm. 370 00:19:32,309 --> 00:19:34,579 But so difficult to sustain. 371 00:19:49,759 --> 00:19:52,862 CATHERINE: "And so, to the question of alliances," 372 00:19:52,931 --> 00:19:54,396 and put that in italics. 373 00:19:54,465 --> 00:19:56,564 All of it, Your Majesty? 374 00:19:56,633 --> 00:20:01,470 No, not all of it, or indeed all of it. 375 00:20:01,539 --> 00:20:04,743 Uh, "alliances" is the bit she wants in italics. 376 00:20:05,771 --> 00:20:07,279 Alliances. It's... 377 00:20:08,046 --> 00:20:09,477 the way she says it. 378 00:20:09,546 --> 00:20:11,583 You can tell when she's speaking in italics? 379 00:20:12,483 --> 00:20:14,282 That is extraordinary. 380 00:20:14,351 --> 00:20:16,218 Yes, well, it's, uh... 381 00:20:16,287 --> 00:20:20,856 it's very important to be sensitive to the nuances of... 382 00:20:20,925 --> 00:20:22,261 her voice. 383 00:20:24,394 --> 00:20:25,560 You do it, Peter, 384 00:20:25,629 --> 00:20:26,962 and let him copy out your version. 385 00:20:27,031 --> 00:20:29,898 Bezborodko, would you leave us, please? 386 00:20:29,967 --> 00:20:31,733 Peter, you stay. 387 00:20:31,802 --> 00:20:33,001 Stay. 388 00:20:33,070 --> 00:20:36,305 You were speaking in italics, Your Majesty. 389 00:20:36,374 --> 00:20:38,007 I spotted it. 390 00:20:38,076 --> 00:20:40,512 No, I'm afraid I wasn't. 391 00:20:50,787 --> 00:20:53,421 "So, where do I think Russia should be in the world? 392 00:20:53,490 --> 00:20:55,690 What do the people want us to be? 393 00:20:55,759 --> 00:20:58,593 Are we going to continue to defer to the Europeans, 394 00:20:58,662 --> 00:21:02,063 or move south towards the Crimea?" 395 00:21:02,132 --> 00:21:03,532 That's rather good, isn't it? 396 00:21:03,601 --> 00:21:05,032 I wonder who wrote it. 397 00:21:05,101 --> 00:21:07,735 -Why, you did, Your Majesty. -(CATHERINE CHUCKLES) 398 00:21:07,804 --> 00:21:09,942 POTEMKIN: Well, perhaps I can help re-write it. 399 00:21:13,243 --> 00:21:14,876 Peter, leave us. 400 00:21:14,945 --> 00:21:15,981 Oh, please. 401 00:21:25,724 --> 00:21:27,026 ZAVADOVSKY: Your Majesty. 402 00:21:32,664 --> 00:21:34,997 How is your secretary? 403 00:21:35,066 --> 00:21:36,793 I'm sorry, which one? 404 00:21:36,862 --> 00:21:39,201 (POTEMKIN LAUGHS) 405 00:21:39,270 --> 00:21:40,839 The good-looking one. 406 00:21:41,706 --> 00:21:42,741 Peter. 407 00:21:43,141 --> 00:21:44,409 Hm? 408 00:21:45,638 --> 00:21:47,479 Oh. Hm. 409 00:21:48,646 --> 00:21:50,415 Yeah, you trust him, do you? 410 00:21:51,850 --> 00:21:53,648 CATHERINE: Mm. 411 00:21:53,717 --> 00:21:56,451 For God's sake, we can't go on like this. 412 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:58,657 -Like what? -Like this! 413 00:21:59,557 --> 00:22:00,788 This is a... 414 00:22:00,857 --> 00:22:02,624 You have infinite choice and I've got none. 415 00:22:02,693 --> 00:22:04,559 I have power! Yes, it may look as if 416 00:22:04,628 --> 00:22:06,627 I can simply do as I please, but... 417 00:22:06,696 --> 00:22:09,497 Look, you know it isn't like that. 418 00:22:09,566 --> 00:22:11,633 You don't need to crawl on your hands and knees 419 00:22:11,702 --> 00:22:13,302 to Panin and his unstoppable desire 420 00:22:13,371 --> 00:22:15,569 to suck the German cock. 421 00:22:15,638 --> 00:22:18,139 -Well, you haven't read the rest of what I've written, have you? -I don't need to hear the rest 422 00:22:18,208 --> 00:22:20,075 -of the thing, do I? Oh, please. -Well, you just listen! Listen! 423 00:22:20,144 --> 00:22:21,576 Please, indulge me. Here, 424 00:22:21,645 --> 00:22:23,879 I will hear the rest of the thing. Come on, yes. 425 00:22:23,948 --> 00:22:25,846 "The Muslim tribes in the Crimea 426 00:22:25,915 --> 00:22:27,782 and in the whole of the area to the north 427 00:22:27,851 --> 00:22:30,418 are utterly divided and have no love for the Turks. 428 00:22:30,487 --> 00:22:34,323 It is possible we could bring them into the Russian Empire 429 00:22:34,392 --> 00:22:36,495 without the use of force." 430 00:22:40,098 --> 00:22:41,330 Might be true. 431 00:22:41,399 --> 00:22:42,632 You see. 432 00:22:42,701 --> 00:22:44,469 We agree, Grishenka. 433 00:22:46,570 --> 00:22:49,437 I'm for expansion, I'm for empire. 434 00:22:49,506 --> 00:22:52,107 I'm all for telling the Germans and the French and the English 435 00:22:52,176 --> 00:22:53,412 to fuck off. 436 00:22:55,580 --> 00:22:57,613 I'm a Russian patriot, 437 00:22:57,682 --> 00:22:59,248 with a German head. 438 00:22:59,317 --> 00:23:01,684 What I don't want is another war. 439 00:23:01,753 --> 00:23:03,518 You think we can... 440 00:23:03,587 --> 00:23:05,053 take the Crimea without a war? 441 00:23:05,122 --> 00:23:08,290 The French and the English have other worries. 442 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:10,759 The Germans will never act alone. 443 00:23:10,828 --> 00:23:12,861 You would need someone to... 444 00:23:12,930 --> 00:23:15,134 -Who could talk to the tribes. -The tribes. 445 00:23:16,401 --> 00:23:17,602 Yes. 446 00:23:18,770 --> 00:23:20,772 I would be gone a long time. 447 00:23:25,576 --> 00:23:28,680 We will always have each other, Grishenka. 448 00:23:32,745 --> 00:23:33,785 Well... 449 00:23:34,752 --> 00:23:36,919 Don't get too fond of that boy. 450 00:23:36,988 --> 00:23:42,090 -Him? Oh, don't-- -No. No. Please. 451 00:23:42,159 --> 00:23:44,527 No matter what happens to either of us, 452 00:23:44,596 --> 00:23:45,931 in bed or out of it, 453 00:23:48,765 --> 00:23:51,766 we will always have each other. Won't we? 454 00:23:51,835 --> 00:23:53,936 Are you giving me permission to stray? 455 00:23:54,005 --> 00:23:56,875 I don't want to be given permission. 456 00:24:00,278 --> 00:24:03,015 New beginnings, Matushka. 457 00:24:06,251 --> 00:24:07,683 You go. 458 00:24:07,752 --> 00:24:10,318 And you do what you have to do. 459 00:24:10,387 --> 00:24:11,890 With my blessing. 460 00:24:16,193 --> 00:24:17,457 (GASPS) Oh. 461 00:24:18,330 --> 00:24:19,664 Oh, no. 462 00:24:23,201 --> 00:24:24,660 But you write. 463 00:24:24,729 --> 00:24:27,973 Will you, please, please, just write, write, write. 464 00:24:31,509 --> 00:24:32,874 (CATHERINE SOBS) 465 00:24:32,943 --> 00:24:35,475 (DRILL SERGEANT YELLING INDISTINCTLY) 466 00:24:38,649 --> 00:24:40,480 (HORSE WHINNIES) 467 00:24:42,786 --> 00:24:45,224 (DRILL SERGEANT YELLING INDISTINCTLY) 468 00:24:45,757 --> 00:24:47,126 (SOLDIERS STOMP) 469 00:24:48,859 --> 00:24:51,163 PANIN: So, Prince Potemkin's soldiers are headed south... 470 00:24:53,030 --> 00:24:54,133 What of it? 471 00:24:55,660 --> 00:24:59,501 I have to say, Your Majesty, that I am worried. 472 00:24:59,570 --> 00:25:01,269 You're worried, Minister? 473 00:25:01,338 --> 00:25:02,637 It is noted. 474 00:25:02,706 --> 00:25:04,367 What else are you worried about? 475 00:25:04,436 --> 00:25:06,402 The drainage system in the Ukraine? 476 00:25:06,471 --> 00:25:08,476 Whether or not to tax root vegetables? 477 00:25:08,545 --> 00:25:10,879 The price of bread in Novgorod? 478 00:25:10,948 --> 00:25:13,215 It's my job to worry, Minister, not yours. 479 00:25:13,284 --> 00:25:14,483 Work! (CLAPS HANDS) 480 00:25:14,552 --> 00:25:16,821 Work. That's what life is all about. 481 00:25:18,756 --> 00:25:21,293 Did you wish to discuss anything else with me? 482 00:25:23,628 --> 00:25:24,793 I'm... 483 00:25:24,862 --> 00:25:27,096 obviously thinking about the prince, 484 00:25:27,165 --> 00:25:28,358 Your Majesty. 485 00:25:28,427 --> 00:25:31,266 He's... suffered a blow, but, uh... 486 00:25:31,335 --> 00:25:33,601 Well, he's getting stronger. 487 00:25:33,670 --> 00:25:36,539 As you know, I'm very close to him, 488 00:25:36,608 --> 00:25:37,973 and, um, I was thinking-- 489 00:25:38,042 --> 00:25:40,036 I think it's time he got married again. 490 00:25:40,105 --> 00:25:42,577 Where's that list? 491 00:25:42,646 --> 00:25:45,614 Here is a list of suitable princesses. 492 00:25:45,683 --> 00:25:47,015 With respect, Your Majesty-- 493 00:25:47,084 --> 00:25:49,317 They're arranged in order of suitability. 494 00:25:49,386 --> 00:25:51,354 Start with number one and work your way down 495 00:25:51,423 --> 00:25:53,288 to number 25. 496 00:25:53,357 --> 00:25:56,761 One or two of them are German, as it happens. 497 00:25:58,129 --> 00:26:00,262 Some wonderful things have come out of Germany, 498 00:26:00,331 --> 00:26:01,561 Your Majesty. 499 00:26:02,299 --> 00:26:03,566 Yourself included. 500 00:26:03,635 --> 00:26:05,067 Ha. 501 00:26:05,136 --> 00:26:06,769 Do it. Go. 502 00:26:06,838 --> 00:26:09,065 The boy needs to move on. 503 00:26:09,134 --> 00:26:11,010 (QUILL SCRATCHING) 504 00:26:13,445 --> 00:26:15,376 (BELL RINGING) 505 00:26:15,445 --> 00:26:17,282 PAUL: I don't want to get up. 506 00:26:20,884 --> 00:26:22,585 CATHERINE: It's never been easy between us, 507 00:26:22,654 --> 00:26:24,352 I know. I understand that. 508 00:26:24,421 --> 00:26:26,088 PAUL: You don't understand. 509 00:26:26,157 --> 00:26:28,557 I met someone who actually loved me 510 00:26:28,626 --> 00:26:29,861 and now she's... 511 00:26:31,529 --> 00:26:32,764 she's dead. 512 00:26:33,831 --> 00:26:34,830 She's dead. 513 00:26:34,899 --> 00:26:36,902 -You must eat. -PAUL: No. 514 00:26:41,906 --> 00:26:43,775 Oh, come on. Get a grip. 515 00:26:53,650 --> 00:26:56,651 -Now, I understand how you feel. -Do you? 516 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,188 Well, I-- I'm trying to. I really am. 517 00:26:59,257 --> 00:27:00,556 I don't feel you do. 518 00:27:00,625 --> 00:27:02,223 (CATHERINE SIGHS) 519 00:27:02,292 --> 00:27:05,528 Your wife is dead, and your son is dead. 520 00:27:05,597 --> 00:27:06,796 (PAUL SNIFFS) 521 00:27:06,865 --> 00:27:08,998 It-- It's time to move on. 522 00:27:09,067 --> 00:27:10,769 PAUL: Where are we going? 523 00:27:11,669 --> 00:27:13,405 To face up to things. 524 00:27:17,536 --> 00:27:19,140 No, no, no. This is her room. 525 00:27:19,209 --> 00:27:21,680 -Why have you brought me here? -I want to show you something. 526 00:27:24,716 --> 00:27:25,881 No, do not touch that. 527 00:27:25,950 --> 00:27:27,249 Do not touch that! 528 00:27:27,318 --> 00:27:30,018 That is-- That is her private drawer! Get out! 529 00:27:30,087 --> 00:27:31,553 Get out! 530 00:27:31,622 --> 00:27:35,060 She kept things in here she didn't want you to see. 531 00:27:37,028 --> 00:27:38,063 Letters. 532 00:27:39,997 --> 00:27:42,297 Letters from your best friend, 533 00:27:42,366 --> 00:27:43,733 Count Razumovsky, 534 00:27:43,802 --> 00:27:46,033 with whom she was having an affair, 535 00:27:46,102 --> 00:27:50,670 and who, in all probability, is the father of the dead child. 536 00:27:52,143 --> 00:27:55,780 How dare you say such vile things to me? 537 00:27:56,615 --> 00:27:57,849 You're lying. 538 00:27:58,583 --> 00:28:00,315 You're lying. 539 00:28:00,384 --> 00:28:01,950 I'm telling the truth. 540 00:28:02,019 --> 00:28:03,956 I'm sorry for it. 541 00:28:05,556 --> 00:28:07,055 Read. 542 00:28:07,124 --> 00:28:09,861 Or are you-- are you too frightened? 543 00:28:10,261 --> 00:28:11,493 No. 544 00:28:11,562 --> 00:28:14,466 One should never be frightened of facing the truth. 545 00:28:16,500 --> 00:28:19,699 This is his handwriting. Do you recognize it? 546 00:28:28,580 --> 00:28:29,982 (READING INDISTINCTLY) 547 00:28:36,286 --> 00:28:37,252 The bastard. 548 00:28:37,321 --> 00:28:39,758 Nothing in love is forever, Paul. 549 00:28:42,394 --> 00:28:43,428 Death... 550 00:28:44,695 --> 00:28:48,167 and distance have a way of interfering. 551 00:28:51,970 --> 00:28:53,902 It's not a sin to fall in love again, 552 00:28:53,971 --> 00:28:56,275 when the one you love is gone. 553 00:29:03,013 --> 00:29:06,148 CATHERINE: My darling, where are you? 554 00:29:06,217 --> 00:29:09,054 I've not heard from you, and I'm worried that-- 555 00:29:15,292 --> 00:29:17,529 -No, not now. -Your Majesty. 556 00:29:28,272 --> 00:29:30,109 Does anyone know what this is? 557 00:29:32,342 --> 00:29:34,009 It is the Treaty of St Petersburg, 558 00:29:34,078 --> 00:29:35,777 -Your Majesty. -Yes, it is. 559 00:29:35,846 --> 00:29:38,648 And it led to our alliance with that nasty little man, 560 00:29:38,717 --> 00:29:39,915 Frederick II of Prussia, 561 00:29:39,984 --> 00:29:41,249 who once referred to me in private, 562 00:29:41,318 --> 00:29:43,522 although I hear everything, as a cunt. 563 00:29:46,890 --> 00:29:50,192 But it seems we are still tied to our alliance with him. 564 00:29:50,261 --> 00:29:52,126 Do either of you know why? 565 00:29:52,195 --> 00:29:55,664 -Foreign policy, Your Majesty? -Oh, get out! Get out! Get out! 566 00:29:55,733 --> 00:29:57,402 Get out! Get out! 567 00:29:59,870 --> 00:30:02,938 ZAVADOVSKY: Until we secure the Crimea, Your Majesty, 568 00:30:03,007 --> 00:30:06,407 it might be dangerous to move on. 569 00:30:06,476 --> 00:30:08,777 Yes, you're quite right, Peter. Good, good. 570 00:30:08,846 --> 00:30:10,078 You've been listening to me. 571 00:30:10,147 --> 00:30:11,913 Yes, move slowly. You're quite right. 572 00:30:11,982 --> 00:30:14,419 I'm so sorry I was unpleasant, I... 573 00:30:16,220 --> 00:30:18,920 Things weigh on me sometimes. 574 00:30:18,989 --> 00:30:20,789 I'm always grateful to serve, Your Majesty. 575 00:30:20,858 --> 00:30:22,194 Yes, you may go. 576 00:30:28,633 --> 00:30:31,032 Oh, Prince Potemkin has... 577 00:30:31,101 --> 00:30:33,902 Prince Potemkin has been away too long. 578 00:30:33,971 --> 00:30:35,604 I am sorry. 579 00:30:35,673 --> 00:30:38,043 You know how much that I... 580 00:30:38,709 --> 00:30:40,875 CATHERINE: That you...? 581 00:30:40,944 --> 00:30:47,583 What... respect I have for him. Prince Potemkin. 582 00:30:47,652 --> 00:30:50,189 Yes, he is an extraordinary man. 583 00:30:50,721 --> 00:30:51,957 He is. 584 00:30:52,857 --> 00:30:54,426 But he is not here. 585 00:30:55,393 --> 00:30:56,428 And you are. 586 00:30:59,196 --> 00:31:00,860 Yes, Your Majesty. 587 00:31:06,104 --> 00:31:08,607 So... rub my shoulders? 588 00:31:33,331 --> 00:31:34,633 (ZAVADOVSKY CLEARS THROAT) 589 00:31:36,701 --> 00:31:37,937 Lower. 590 00:31:50,348 --> 00:31:51,383 (SIGHS) 591 00:31:55,419 --> 00:31:58,090 Come... Come round to the front. 592 00:32:15,106 --> 00:32:16,341 (CHUCKLES) 593 00:32:22,146 --> 00:32:26,947 You may do whatever it is you think I want. 594 00:33:21,573 --> 00:33:23,208 (GASPS) 595 00:33:23,975 --> 00:33:25,741 Lock the door. 596 00:33:25,810 --> 00:33:27,612 People are always bothering me. 597 00:33:33,717 --> 00:33:37,622 You know, you are the best secretary I have ever had. 598 00:33:43,361 --> 00:33:45,760 PANIN: There are one or two outstanding candidates. 599 00:33:45,829 --> 00:33:48,030 This is the daughter of the Grand Duke of 600 00:33:48,099 --> 00:33:51,203 -Wiesbaden-Gleiwitz. -God. What a boot. 601 00:33:52,636 --> 00:33:54,936 A marriage is a great opportunity for you, 602 00:33:55,005 --> 00:33:56,538 Your Excellency. 603 00:33:56,607 --> 00:33:59,341 From what I hear, Potemkin is trying to convince 604 00:33:59,410 --> 00:34:01,776 the Crimean Tartars to join the Russian Empire, 605 00:34:01,845 --> 00:34:05,214 and, unsurprisingly, not having much success. 606 00:34:05,283 --> 00:34:07,686 Your star will rise. 607 00:34:16,894 --> 00:34:20,195 Princess Sophia of Wurtemburg. 608 00:34:20,264 --> 00:34:22,364 Apparently she has good child-bearing hips. 609 00:34:22,433 --> 00:34:24,166 ♪ (CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS) ♪ 610 00:34:24,235 --> 00:34:25,466 I'm so glad you are pleased 611 00:34:25,535 --> 00:34:27,369 with Princess Sophia of Wurtemburg. 612 00:34:27,438 --> 00:34:29,637 She'll make Prince Paul a wonderful wife. 613 00:34:29,706 --> 00:34:33,073 She is a warm and wonderful human being. 614 00:34:33,744 --> 00:34:35,075 And German. 615 00:34:36,748 --> 00:34:38,646 She is also German. 616 00:34:38,715 --> 00:34:40,549 Please don't think this is going to make me 617 00:34:40,618 --> 00:34:43,788 feel more kindly towards other Germans, Panin. 618 00:34:45,054 --> 00:34:49,391 Our alliance with Germany and the rest of Europe 619 00:34:49,460 --> 00:34:51,663 is a delicate business. 620 00:34:54,426 --> 00:34:57,702 Especially if we're embarked on an adventure in the Crimea. 621 00:34:59,070 --> 00:35:02,841 ♪ (CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS) ♪ 622 00:35:29,333 --> 00:35:32,433 PANIN: She misses him. Unfortunately. 623 00:35:32,502 --> 00:35:36,038 What's he doing in the Crimea, exactly? 624 00:35:36,107 --> 00:35:37,806 No one knows. 625 00:35:37,875 --> 00:35:39,642 I think he's told her he'll somehow manage 626 00:35:39,711 --> 00:35:42,243 to annex it, without a fight. 627 00:35:42,312 --> 00:35:44,045 Which he won't. 628 00:35:44,114 --> 00:35:47,983 ALEXEI: I saw Zavadovsky go upstairs by the back route 629 00:35:48,052 --> 00:35:49,688 to do her last night. 630 00:35:51,022 --> 00:35:52,288 Oh, the back route? 631 00:35:52,357 --> 00:35:53,817 (CHUCKLES) 632 00:35:53,886 --> 00:35:55,690 Many, many congratulations, sir. 633 00:35:55,759 --> 00:35:59,364 Well, aren't things easier without One Eye? 634 00:36:00,731 --> 00:36:05,267 I'm sure he'll end up killing every Tartar in Crimea. 635 00:36:05,336 --> 00:36:07,306 Unless they kill him first. 636 00:36:15,279 --> 00:36:16,511 CATHERINE: I have not heard from you 637 00:36:16,580 --> 00:36:18,317 for what seems an eternity. 638 00:36:19,883 --> 00:36:21,916 I know what you're doing is dangerous, 639 00:36:21,985 --> 00:36:24,986 but I beg you to let me know what is happening. 640 00:36:25,055 --> 00:36:26,258 (HORSES GALLOPING) 641 00:36:28,159 --> 00:36:29,491 POTEMKIN: It is true. 642 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,094 I am to blame for not having written you. 643 00:36:32,163 --> 00:36:35,630 (SOLDIERS YELLING INDISTINCTLY) 644 00:36:35,699 --> 00:36:39,267 My most merciful lady and generous mistress. 645 00:36:39,336 --> 00:36:40,869 I shall soon be able to tell you 646 00:36:40,938 --> 00:36:43,471 the whole story of my adventures. 647 00:36:43,540 --> 00:36:47,579 It isn't finished yet, but we are close. 648 00:36:51,682 --> 00:36:54,616 I swear, in the name of the one God, 649 00:36:54,685 --> 00:36:57,052 and the Prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, 650 00:36:57,121 --> 00:37:00,422 to serve and sacrifice my life 651 00:37:00,491 --> 00:37:03,693 and my soul, for the Empress Catherine. 652 00:37:03,762 --> 00:37:05,393 POTEMKIN: I managed somehow 653 00:37:05,462 --> 00:37:06,929 to persuade the entire Tartar elite 654 00:37:06,998 --> 00:37:09,364 to take the oath of allegiance to you. 655 00:37:09,433 --> 00:37:12,001 I congratulate you upon your acquisition 656 00:37:12,070 --> 00:37:13,605 of the Crimea. 657 00:37:14,972 --> 00:37:18,040 I can't tell you how happy and excited I am, 658 00:37:18,109 --> 00:37:19,778 and how I long to see you. 659 00:37:20,712 --> 00:37:22,405 CATHERINE: My darling, 660 00:37:22,474 --> 00:37:27,114 our dreams for Russia are finally coming true. 661 00:37:27,183 --> 00:37:33,492 For all this, I thank you, but I am missing you terribly. 662 00:37:34,726 --> 00:37:36,358 A letter for Her Majesty. 663 00:37:36,427 --> 00:37:40,665 CATHERINE: The Grand Duchess has just given birth to a son, 664 00:37:41,565 --> 00:37:45,433 whom I call Monsieur Alexandre. 665 00:37:45,502 --> 00:37:48,070 I am besotted with this infant. 666 00:37:48,139 --> 00:37:51,038 It's a pleasure to see him sprawl on his rug. 667 00:37:51,107 --> 00:37:54,409 And he is beginning to show singular intelligence 668 00:37:54,478 --> 00:37:56,245 for a child of his age. 669 00:37:56,314 --> 00:37:58,480 (BABY FUSSING) 670 00:37:58,549 --> 00:38:00,585 I can make of him what I want. 671 00:38:01,885 --> 00:38:04,152 POTEMKIN: What sovereign has ever compiled 672 00:38:04,221 --> 00:38:05,753 such a brilliant epoch as you? 673 00:38:05,822 --> 00:38:07,822 The lands upon which others merely glanced, 674 00:38:07,891 --> 00:38:10,358 you have bound to the Russian scepter. 675 00:38:10,427 --> 00:38:12,995 This new border promises Russia peace, 676 00:38:13,064 --> 00:38:16,498 Europe envy, and the Ottomans fear. 677 00:38:16,567 --> 00:38:19,100 Take up this trophy and order your historians 678 00:38:19,169 --> 00:38:21,036 to prepare more paper and ink. 679 00:38:21,105 --> 00:38:23,104 I will build a new city here in your honor, 680 00:38:23,173 --> 00:38:27,042 and a port to the open sea that we always dreamed of. 681 00:38:27,111 --> 00:38:29,077 VALERIAN ZUBOV: What are you gonna call it, sir? 682 00:38:29,146 --> 00:38:30,778 POTEMKIN: Grigory. 683 00:38:30,847 --> 00:38:32,747 No, I'm not gonna call the town Grigory. 684 00:38:32,816 --> 00:38:34,349 -(ZUBOV LAUGHS) -You may call me Grigory, 685 00:38:34,418 --> 00:38:35,917 because I like you. 686 00:38:35,986 --> 00:38:39,554 Christ, nobody wants to live in a town called Gregory. 687 00:38:39,623 --> 00:38:41,190 The sewers would be overflowing 688 00:38:41,259 --> 00:38:42,891 and it'd be all brothels and bars. 689 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:43,925 (ZUBOV CHUCKLES) 690 00:38:43,994 --> 00:38:48,931 No, this will be a colossal city. Huh? 691 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:50,936 It'll live forever. 692 00:38:51,703 --> 00:38:53,335 We'll have wide streets, 693 00:38:53,404 --> 00:38:56,271 boulevards, we'll have... 694 00:38:56,340 --> 00:39:00,710 art and cathedrals and... orchards, 695 00:39:00,779 --> 00:39:02,878 and music on every corner. 696 00:39:02,947 --> 00:39:04,112 ZUBOV: Mozart. 697 00:39:04,181 --> 00:39:06,249 Of course we'll have Mozart. 698 00:39:06,318 --> 00:39:07,619 Yes. 699 00:39:08,452 --> 00:39:10,422 You love her very much. 700 00:39:11,055 --> 00:39:12,688 I do. 701 00:39:12,757 --> 00:39:15,523 From the first moment I saw her, 702 00:39:15,592 --> 00:39:18,130 when I was nothing. And it'll never change. 703 00:39:18,696 --> 00:39:20,195 No, it is a... 704 00:39:20,264 --> 00:39:23,402 an affection that refuses to be altered by circumstances. 705 00:39:24,201 --> 00:39:25,601 (SIGHS) 706 00:39:25,670 --> 00:39:28,203 They call this town Akhtiar. 707 00:39:28,272 --> 00:39:30,438 The White Cliffs. 708 00:39:30,507 --> 00:39:34,146 But we shall call it Sebastopol. 709 00:39:35,312 --> 00:39:36,781 The Imperial City. 710 00:39:37,749 --> 00:39:39,451 The Empress's City. 711 00:39:41,653 --> 00:39:43,822 All for the glory of Catherine. 712 00:39:45,256 --> 00:39:47,387 CATHERINE: Oh, how I miss you. 713 00:39:48,927 --> 00:39:49,962 Come home. 714 00:39:51,062 --> 00:39:53,496 Come home to me... 715 00:39:53,565 --> 00:39:54,900 now. 716 00:40:00,771 --> 00:40:04,639 -(CHEERING) -♪ (CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS) ♪ 717 00:40:04,708 --> 00:40:07,677 -CATHERINE: You did it. -POTEMKIN: Yes. Yes I did. 718 00:40:07,746 --> 00:40:09,110 (CATHERINE AND POTEMKIN CHUCKLE) 719 00:40:09,179 --> 00:40:12,780 They said you would never do it, and you did. 720 00:40:12,849 --> 00:40:15,250 And you have a German daughter-in-law, 721 00:40:15,319 --> 00:40:18,087 just to show them what a good European you still are. 722 00:40:18,156 --> 00:40:20,889 (CHUCKLES) Let them all think that... 723 00:40:20,958 --> 00:40:23,762 but tonight we are celebrating you. 724 00:40:24,295 --> 00:40:25,360 POTEMKIN: Mm... 725 00:40:25,429 --> 00:40:28,063 But I must soon return. 726 00:40:28,132 --> 00:40:30,965 My work in the south is just starting. 727 00:40:31,034 --> 00:40:33,701 CATHERINE: Let's enjoy tonight. There is nothing sweeter 728 00:40:33,770 --> 00:40:36,971 than the sounds of a party fading into the distance. 729 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:40,943 If you're walking away from it with the right person. 730 00:40:41,012 --> 00:40:42,211 Huh? 731 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:43,582 Mm. 732 00:40:45,116 --> 00:40:47,019 I did it all for you... 733 00:40:47,952 --> 00:40:48,988 my love. 734 00:40:57,028 --> 00:40:58,730 (BABY COOING) 735 00:41:00,564 --> 00:41:02,632 POTEMKIN: She's enjoying her child. 736 00:41:02,701 --> 00:41:04,733 -She's very respectful. -Mm? 737 00:41:04,802 --> 00:41:06,768 She's learned Russian. 738 00:41:06,837 --> 00:41:09,808 And she has good child-bearing hips. 739 00:41:11,843 --> 00:41:13,642 -I hate her. -(POTEMKIN LAUGHS) 740 00:41:13,711 --> 00:41:15,110 Of course you do. 741 00:41:15,179 --> 00:41:17,813 (FIREWORKS WHISTLING) 742 00:41:17,882 --> 00:41:19,114 Go on. 743 00:41:19,183 --> 00:41:20,548 Go, I'll stay here. 744 00:41:20,617 --> 00:41:22,117 The sight of me might start him off. 745 00:41:22,186 --> 00:41:24,018 Well, the little boy, you know... 746 00:41:24,087 --> 00:41:27,790 I'm just-- I'm surprised by how much I love him, 747 00:41:27,859 --> 00:41:30,793 how much he means to me. 748 00:41:30,862 --> 00:41:32,728 It's never the children, Matushka; 749 00:41:32,797 --> 00:41:34,630 it's what we do to them. 750 00:41:34,699 --> 00:41:36,565 It's too late for us. 751 00:41:36,634 --> 00:41:39,100 Go on, go. Go, go, go. 752 00:41:39,169 --> 00:41:40,500 Go on. 753 00:41:43,340 --> 00:41:44,576 (MARIA CHUCKLES) 754 00:41:51,849 --> 00:41:53,816 (CATHERINE COOING) 755 00:41:53,885 --> 00:42:00,050 Oh, hello! Hello. Can you see me? 756 00:42:00,119 --> 00:42:02,723 (POTEMKIN CHUCKLES) 757 00:42:02,792 --> 00:42:05,026 PAUL: Where are you taking him, Mother? (CHUCKLES) 758 00:42:05,095 --> 00:42:07,967 Oh, I'm not stealing him, darling. (CHUCKLES) 759 00:42:09,033 --> 00:42:11,236 Maria understands, don't you? 760 00:42:16,140 --> 00:42:18,140 We can be friends now, can't we? 761 00:42:18,209 --> 00:42:20,843 -Now you've given me a son. -Grandson. 762 00:42:20,912 --> 00:42:22,847 He's your grandson. He's my son. 763 00:42:23,748 --> 00:42:26,151 (CATHERINE COOING) 764 00:42:28,753 --> 00:42:30,685 When do we get him back, Mother? 765 00:42:30,754 --> 00:42:34,159 In five years, when he's reached the age of reason. 766 00:42:36,060 --> 00:42:39,031 That was a joke. (CHUCKLES) 767 00:42:40,331 --> 00:42:43,899 -(BABY CRYING) -(CATHERINE SHUSHING) 768 00:42:43,968 --> 00:42:46,167 ZAVADOVSKY: So, what about the Turks? 769 00:42:46,236 --> 00:42:48,203 Are they gonna let us keep Crimea? 770 00:42:48,272 --> 00:42:51,839 -I somehow forgot to ask them. -(CATHERINE LAUGHS) 771 00:42:51,908 --> 00:42:54,009 Prince Potemkin has thought all this through 772 00:42:54,078 --> 00:42:57,179 -very carefully, Peter. -Of course. Of course. 773 00:42:57,248 --> 00:42:58,914 (ZAVADOVSKY SNIFFS) 774 00:42:58,983 --> 00:43:02,752 I do-- I do think about things, you know? 775 00:43:02,821 --> 00:43:05,287 (CATHERINE CHUCKLES) 776 00:43:05,356 --> 00:43:08,223 In politics, Peter, there are always a certain amount 777 00:43:08,292 --> 00:43:09,491 of unknown factors. 778 00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,562 It's never a good idea to try and discover them. 779 00:43:12,631 --> 00:43:13,895 The future will happen. 780 00:43:13,964 --> 00:43:16,331 All we know is we have Crimea. 781 00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:19,568 The only other issue is... 782 00:43:19,637 --> 00:43:21,103 Where next? 783 00:43:21,172 --> 00:43:23,771 -(CATHERINE CHUCKLES) -(POTEMKIN MUMBLES) 784 00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,008 Is that south? We should go south? 785 00:43:26,077 --> 00:43:27,112 Ooh. Yes. 786 00:43:29,313 --> 00:43:30,983 Matushka. 787 00:43:31,549 --> 00:43:32,851 CATHERINE: Hm? 788 00:43:33,551 --> 00:43:35,154 I've had an idea. 789 00:43:36,254 --> 00:43:38,057 Please, not another one. 790 00:43:41,358 --> 00:43:43,959 Wh-- Where do I belong in all of this? 791 00:43:44,028 --> 00:43:46,999 Please, what is my-- What's my purpose here? 792 00:43:47,798 --> 00:43:49,031 I have no idea. 793 00:43:49,100 --> 00:43:51,194 Well, if you do not wish to be here, 794 00:43:51,263 --> 00:43:53,101 you can always leave. 795 00:43:53,170 --> 00:43:54,173 (SCOFFS) 796 00:43:56,574 --> 00:43:57,776 Fine. 797 00:43:59,010 --> 00:44:00,045 I will! 798 00:44:02,180 --> 00:44:03,415 Your trousers. 799 00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:11,286 He was getting very tedious. 800 00:44:11,355 --> 00:44:13,355 Yes. (CHUCKLES) 801 00:44:13,424 --> 00:44:15,194 I want the Ministry of War. 802 00:44:16,927 --> 00:44:18,794 You shall have it. 803 00:44:18,863 --> 00:44:21,433 We don't need any of them anymore. 804 00:44:23,635 --> 00:44:25,104 Oh. 805 00:44:30,107 --> 00:44:31,810 (CATHERINE CHUCKLES SOFTLY) 806 00:44:46,290 --> 00:44:51,392 Oh, look at you. Every button in place. (LAUGHS) 807 00:44:51,461 --> 00:44:54,196 Oh, Matushka, what about your son, the Grand Duke? 808 00:44:54,265 --> 00:44:56,899 From now on, Prince Paul can do as he is told. 809 00:44:56,968 --> 00:44:58,366 How about a diplomatic tour? 810 00:44:58,435 --> 00:45:00,502 He could visit the Austrian court? 811 00:45:00,571 --> 00:45:03,042 Good idea. Let's do this. 812 00:45:06,477 --> 00:45:08,708 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 813 00:45:13,851 --> 00:45:18,087 So, first, we would like to thank Alexei Orlov 814 00:45:18,156 --> 00:45:21,123 for his loyal service at the Ministry of War, 815 00:45:21,192 --> 00:45:24,492 and his post will now be given to Prince Potemkin, 816 00:45:24,561 --> 00:45:28,500 in acknowledgement for his great work in the Crimea. 817 00:45:30,735 --> 00:45:31,971 POTEMKIN: Bravo. 818 00:45:33,504 --> 00:45:34,734 Bravo! 819 00:45:36,273 --> 00:45:38,607 Oh, Count Orlov, did you have something to say... 820 00:45:38,676 --> 00:45:40,312 before you leave? 821 00:45:42,079 --> 00:45:44,840 No, Your Majesty. 822 00:45:44,909 --> 00:45:47,049 CATHERINE: And now I want to signal a major change 823 00:45:47,118 --> 00:45:49,585 in our foreign policy, away from Europe, and-- 824 00:45:49,654 --> 00:45:50,986 May I... 825 00:45:51,055 --> 00:45:53,492 -say something, Your Majesty? -Yes, please do. 826 00:45:56,427 --> 00:45:57,893 With respect... 827 00:45:57,962 --> 00:45:59,228 (DOOR CLOSES) 828 00:45:59,297 --> 00:46:01,463 ...we may have fooled a few savages 829 00:46:01,532 --> 00:46:03,665 into giving away the Crimea, 830 00:46:03,734 --> 00:46:07,202 and, in the course of time, someone else may well 831 00:46:07,271 --> 00:46:09,004 fool us into giving it away again, 832 00:46:09,073 --> 00:46:12,007 -but-- -We gained the Crimea. 833 00:46:12,076 --> 00:46:13,809 Which makes us more powerful. 834 00:46:13,878 --> 00:46:15,775 CATHERINE: And your point is? 835 00:46:17,181 --> 00:46:19,214 -I must say-- I really must-- -You must say? 836 00:46:19,283 --> 00:46:21,386 What must you say? What is your point? 837 00:46:22,420 --> 00:46:26,288 My point is that my foreign policy 838 00:46:26,357 --> 00:46:29,319 has always developed on a secure network 839 00:46:29,388 --> 00:46:31,561 of alliances in Europe, 840 00:46:31,630 --> 00:46:33,228 particularly in Germany. 841 00:46:33,297 --> 00:46:35,625 And adventure in the Crimea 842 00:46:35,694 --> 00:46:37,666 has put those alliances in danger. 843 00:46:37,735 --> 00:46:39,100 Well, what is your definition 844 00:46:39,169 --> 00:46:41,801 of a "secure network of alliances"? 845 00:46:42,473 --> 00:46:43,572 One that... 846 00:46:43,641 --> 00:46:47,042 -A-- A system which-- -CATHERINE: A system 847 00:46:47,111 --> 00:46:50,713 which you have devised for your own convenience. 848 00:46:50,782 --> 00:46:52,447 (SCOFFS) 849 00:46:52,516 --> 00:46:55,851 There's no such thing as a secure network 850 00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:57,885 of alliances in politics, Minister. 851 00:46:57,954 --> 00:47:00,292 You should know that after watching me work. 852 00:47:01,759 --> 00:47:02,995 I... 853 00:47:03,828 --> 00:47:05,297 -I... -Yes? 854 00:47:06,197 --> 00:47:08,731 You had another point? 855 00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:10,069 (PANIN EXHALES SHARPLY) 856 00:47:12,170 --> 00:47:16,141 I really do not see how I can proceed, if you insist... 857 00:47:17,508 --> 00:47:19,442 Well, if we are following a policy 858 00:47:19,511 --> 00:47:20,342 with which you disagree, 859 00:47:20,411 --> 00:47:23,182 there is only one course for you. 860 00:47:35,793 --> 00:47:37,859 I... 861 00:47:37,928 --> 00:47:40,199 I do not wish to resign, Your Majesty. 862 00:47:41,498 --> 00:47:44,266 I know you have poisoned my son against me. 863 00:47:44,335 --> 00:47:46,862 There may be nothing I can do about that now, 864 00:47:46,931 --> 00:47:51,010 but know this: I will never forgive you. 865 00:47:56,114 --> 00:47:58,050 I do not wish to resign. 866 00:48:00,685 --> 00:48:01,881 But? 867 00:48:05,357 --> 00:48:06,391 I... 868 00:48:09,928 --> 00:48:11,663 I suppose I must do so. 869 00:48:15,567 --> 00:48:17,236 A principled decision. 870 00:48:17,869 --> 00:48:19,104 Accepted. 871 00:48:20,871 --> 00:48:22,274 And we thank you 872 00:48:23,307 --> 00:48:26,907 for your loyal service all these years. 873 00:48:31,750 --> 00:48:33,685 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 874 00:48:51,536 --> 00:48:53,235 (BREATHES SHAKILY) 875 00:48:53,304 --> 00:48:58,040 PAUL: I do not want to go on a state visit 876 00:48:58,109 --> 00:48:59,975 to the Austrian court! 877 00:49:00,044 --> 00:49:02,545 This-- (STAMMERS) This is a little scheme 878 00:49:02,614 --> 00:49:04,213 of Potemkin's, isn't it? 879 00:49:04,282 --> 00:49:07,682 To do with his adventures down south? Well, I'm not going! 880 00:49:07,751 --> 00:49:10,752 God, this man is taking control of the whole court! 881 00:49:10,821 --> 00:49:14,457 You will go, and you will leave my grandson with me. 882 00:49:14,526 --> 00:49:16,353 I will not go! 883 00:49:16,422 --> 00:49:17,659 I will not! 884 00:49:17,728 --> 00:49:21,333 Ah, that will be your old tutor. He's just resigned. 885 00:49:22,233 --> 00:49:24,336 He will need money. Yes? 886 00:49:25,903 --> 00:49:29,171 What use are you to me if you cannot help me? Mm? 887 00:49:29,240 --> 00:49:31,173 What use are you to anyone? 888 00:49:31,242 --> 00:49:33,974 (BABY CRYING) 889 00:49:44,655 --> 00:49:47,689 You know, what you need in retirement, Nikita Ivanovich, 890 00:49:47,758 --> 00:49:48,924 is a hobby. 891 00:49:48,993 --> 00:49:51,463 I suggest you acquire one. Soon. 892 00:49:54,131 --> 00:49:57,198 Now, remember, charm at all times. 893 00:49:57,267 --> 00:49:59,634 The Emperor Joseph is sparkling company, 894 00:49:59,703 --> 00:50:01,771 and we need his support for what we're doing 895 00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:03,408 -in the Crimea. -(BABY FUSSING) 896 00:50:04,008 --> 00:50:05,310 So... 897 00:50:08,345 --> 00:50:11,179 Don't worry, darling. I'll take good care of him. 898 00:50:11,248 --> 00:50:13,452 Just as your grandmother looked after you. 899 00:50:15,252 --> 00:50:17,522 -(BABY CRYING) -I hardly ever saw you. 900 00:50:18,923 --> 00:50:20,525 But we survived, didn't we? 901 00:50:22,494 --> 00:50:23,495 Hm? 902 00:50:26,030 --> 00:50:28,533 (CRYING CONTINUES) 903 00:50:44,749 --> 00:50:46,785 (HORSES TROTTING) 904 00:50:48,052 --> 00:50:49,521 SOLDIER: Men, move out. 905 00:50:52,689 --> 00:50:55,294 -Well, back to work. -POTEMKIN: Yes. 906 00:50:58,195 --> 00:51:01,063 I will also have to leave soon, too. 907 00:51:01,132 --> 00:51:04,064 Back down south, building our empire. 908 00:51:05,235 --> 00:51:07,902 I don't want you to be lonely. 909 00:51:07,971 --> 00:51:11,806 There's a man I would like you to meet. Alexander Mamonov. 910 00:51:11,875 --> 00:51:14,509 Perhaps he can keep you company while I'm away. 911 00:51:14,578 --> 00:51:16,779 Though I will insist you visit me 912 00:51:16,848 --> 00:51:18,350 when the work is complete. 913 00:51:20,016 --> 00:51:22,183 CATHERINE: I suppose if we can't live together, 914 00:51:22,252 --> 00:51:24,086 we'll have to learn how to live with others. 915 00:51:24,155 --> 00:51:25,587 POTEMKIN: Mm. 916 00:51:25,656 --> 00:51:29,925 But without jealousy, because jealousy is disgusting. 917 00:51:29,994 --> 00:51:31,230 -It's... -POTEMKIN: Mm-hm. 918 00:51:31,929 --> 00:51:33,061 Pointless. 919 00:51:33,130 --> 00:51:35,530 -And demeaning. Mm. -Demeaning, yes. 920 00:51:35,599 --> 00:51:37,099 -Your Majesty. -CATHERINE: Mm. 921 00:51:37,168 --> 00:51:39,671 -It's my pleasure. -Very nice to meet you. 922 00:51:48,646 --> 00:51:50,979 (GUNSHOTS) 923 00:51:51,048 --> 00:51:55,487 (CROWD SHOUTING) 924 00:52:02,126 --> 00:52:04,124 (BELL RINGING) 925 00:52:09,466 --> 00:52:13,172 (ALEXANDER MAMONOV PANTING) 926 00:52:17,709 --> 00:52:18,974 (GRUNTS) 927 00:52:19,043 --> 00:52:21,180 MAMONOV: I'm sorry, Your Majesty. 928 00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:24,349 (MAMONOV SIGHS) 929 00:52:31,121 --> 00:52:32,491 (CHUCKLES SOFTLY) 930 00:52:35,655 --> 00:52:37,329 (BELL RINGING) 931 00:52:38,663 --> 00:52:40,499 (WATER LAPPING) 932 00:52:46,871 --> 00:52:48,473 (POTEMKIN CHUCKLES) 933 00:52:51,843 --> 00:52:54,346 I wouldn't worry about it, really. 934 00:53:02,086 --> 00:53:03,719 MAMONOV: I can't believe it. 935 00:53:03,788 --> 00:53:05,553 (SIGHS) 936 00:53:05,622 --> 00:53:07,559 It's never happened before. 937 00:53:09,126 --> 00:53:10,362 No? 938 00:53:19,871 --> 00:53:21,836 SOLDIER: Welcome aboard, Prince Potemkin. 939 00:53:21,905 --> 00:53:24,339 POTEMKIN: Let's get this show on the road. 940 00:53:24,408 --> 00:53:25,874 MAMONOV: I'm sorry. 941 00:53:25,943 --> 00:53:28,643 Really. Really, don't worry about it. 942 00:53:28,712 --> 00:53:30,445 POTEMKIN: Got the weather for it eh, lads? Huh? 943 00:53:30,514 --> 00:53:32,714 SAILOR: Prince Potemkin. Good to have you aboard, sir. 944 00:53:32,783 --> 00:53:34,249 You're here! 945 00:53:34,318 --> 00:53:36,151 Well-- Why didn't you say? 946 00:53:36,220 --> 00:53:37,689 POTEMKIN: I didn't want to bother you. 947 00:53:38,823 --> 00:53:39,822 (STAMPS FOOT) 948 00:53:39,891 --> 00:53:41,460 I'm here now. 949 00:53:46,796 --> 00:53:49,668 I've been getting it all ready. All ready for you. 950 00:53:53,404 --> 00:53:54,639 CATHERINE: Stop it. 951 00:53:58,843 --> 00:54:01,241 ♪ (CELEBRATORY MUSIC PLAYS) ♪ 952 00:54:02,313 --> 00:54:05,350 So, let's to the Crimea. 953 00:54:07,351 --> 00:54:08,587 POTEMKIN: Row! 954 00:54:10,555 --> 00:54:12,221 ELENA: Your Majesty. 955 00:54:12,290 --> 00:54:13,688 POTEMKIN: We sail down this river, 956 00:54:13,757 --> 00:54:16,392 we reach the Black Sea and then we show everyone 957 00:54:16,461 --> 00:54:17,993 a new Russia! 958 00:54:18,062 --> 00:54:19,464 (SIGHS) 959 00:54:28,439 --> 00:54:30,338 She's cheered up then. 960 00:54:30,407 --> 00:54:32,877 Can't live with him, can't live without him. 961 00:54:40,251 --> 00:54:42,351 ELENA: Your Majesty. 962 00:54:42,420 --> 00:54:44,320 -CATHERINE: Thank you. -ELENA: Prince Potemkin. 963 00:54:44,389 --> 00:54:45,624 Thank you. 964 00:54:51,996 --> 00:54:53,128 (GLASS SMASHES) 965 00:54:53,197 --> 00:54:55,030 I think Mamonov is fucking her. 966 00:54:55,099 --> 00:54:56,431 POTEMKIN: Well, 967 00:54:56,500 --> 00:54:58,400 what are you going to do about that? 968 00:54:58,469 --> 00:55:01,406 -Fifty lashes. -(LAUGHS) 969 00:55:02,373 --> 00:55:03,772 You are a... 970 00:55:03,841 --> 00:55:05,573 You're a monster. You are, you're a terrible... 971 00:55:05,642 --> 00:55:07,642 monster. You use people up and throw them away 972 00:55:07,711 --> 00:55:09,044 when you've finished with them. Fifty lashes. 973 00:55:09,113 --> 00:55:11,212 You're outrageous, you're terrible, Matushka. 974 00:55:11,281 --> 00:55:12,714 You're a monster. 975 00:55:12,783 --> 00:55:14,244 That's not a very nice thing to say about someone, 976 00:55:14,313 --> 00:55:15,584 especially someone you say you love. 977 00:55:15,653 --> 00:55:19,091 Oh, but I do love you. 978 00:55:21,726 --> 00:55:23,658 I'll always love you. 979 00:55:23,727 --> 00:55:27,032 Even when there isn't any more me or any more you... 980 00:55:28,499 --> 00:55:30,369 I will still love you. 981 00:55:37,508 --> 00:55:38,978 Does it upset you? 982 00:55:41,079 --> 00:55:42,381 No, not especially. 983 00:55:44,716 --> 00:55:45,750 Hmm. 984 00:55:46,651 --> 00:55:49,754 But this... This... 985 00:55:50,821 --> 00:55:52,958 This is what we were meant to do. 986 00:55:53,919 --> 00:55:55,494 Make Russia great. 987 00:55:57,094 --> 00:55:59,359 Never had any choice in the matter. 988 00:56:03,568 --> 00:56:04,869 You're the one. 989 00:56:06,636 --> 00:56:08,740 You are. It was only ever you. 990 00:56:10,774 --> 00:56:12,912 Wherever you are, wherever I am. 991 00:56:15,445 --> 00:56:17,616 From the first time I saw you. 992 00:56:20,151 --> 00:56:22,955 Love is to do with the soul. 993 00:56:23,888 --> 00:56:26,959 Me, you... 994 00:56:28,893 --> 00:56:29,929 there. 995 00:56:32,797 --> 00:56:33,798 Here. 996 00:56:35,132 --> 00:56:36,135 Now. 997 00:56:59,624 --> 00:57:00,923 POTEMKIN: My love... 998 00:57:00,992 --> 00:57:03,426 -What? -POTEMKIN: Come on. 999 00:57:03,495 --> 00:57:05,697 Oh. (CHUCKLES) 1000 00:57:07,666 --> 00:57:09,429 What are you doing here? 1001 00:57:11,168 --> 00:57:13,472 There's something I want to show you. 1002 00:57:15,940 --> 00:57:16,872 Great. Come on. 1003 00:57:16,941 --> 00:57:18,843 Give me that. Give me that. 1004 00:57:20,005 --> 00:57:21,309 What do you taste? 1005 00:57:21,378 --> 00:57:22,445 What do you taste? 1006 00:57:22,514 --> 00:57:24,407 Salt! (LAUGHS) 1007 00:57:24,476 --> 00:57:26,647 We're not on the river, we're on the sea! 1008 00:57:26,716 --> 00:57:28,951 What do you think is around the next headland? 1009 00:57:29,020 --> 00:57:30,753 Huh? Of course you don't know, 1010 00:57:30,822 --> 00:57:32,220 come on! Good morning, boys! 1011 00:57:32,289 --> 00:57:34,757 Good morning! Good morning. Close your eyes. 1012 00:57:34,826 --> 00:57:36,158 Come on, come on. Close your eyes. 1013 00:57:36,227 --> 00:57:37,559 Close your-- Don't! Come on! 1014 00:57:37,628 --> 00:57:39,731 -Hey. -CATHERINE: Where-- (CHUCKLES) 1015 00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:44,700 There. Right there. 1016 00:57:44,769 --> 00:57:46,105 Keep them closed. 1017 00:57:47,605 --> 00:57:50,109 Now. There. 1018 00:57:52,109 --> 00:57:54,646 The reason we have traveled down river. 1019 00:57:58,716 --> 00:58:00,849 Sebastopol, Matushka. 1020 00:58:00,918 --> 00:58:02,550 (GASPS) 1021 00:58:02,619 --> 00:58:05,157 Our window into the Black Sea. 1022 00:58:08,493 --> 00:58:09,724 (WHISTLE BLOWS) 1023 00:58:09,793 --> 00:58:12,731 I have built you, like I promised, 1024 00:58:13,431 --> 00:58:15,297 a Russian naval fleet. 1025 00:58:15,366 --> 00:58:17,036 (CANNON FIRE) 1026 00:58:20,471 --> 00:58:22,571 For you, and Russia, 1027 00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:25,044 to take our empire across the sea. 1028 00:58:25,777 --> 00:58:27,643 To Byzantium. 1029 00:58:27,712 --> 00:58:29,181 I've done all of this... 1030 00:58:30,882 --> 00:58:31,917 for you. 1031 00:58:34,085 --> 00:58:35,317 And only you. 1032 00:58:35,386 --> 00:58:37,957 This is how I love you. 72739

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