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PRESENTS

A COSMOS STUDIO PRODUCTION

WRITTEN BY ARIF ALIEV

DIRECTED BY DMITRIY IOSIFOV

CAMERA DIRECTOR MAXIM SHINKORENKO

ART DIRECTOR SERGEY VOROBIEV

MAKEUP ARTIST - ARTEM DEMIDOV COSTUME DESIGNER - SVETLANA MOSKVINA

MUSIC BY NIKOLAY ROSTOV CASTING DIRECTOR - VALERIA GANKINA

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF - SERGEY KOZIN POST-PRODUCTION BY NONNA ARISTARKHOVA

SOUND PRODUCERS VLADIMIR LITROVNIK, ANNA IVANTSOVA

PICTURE EDITORS OLGA GRINSHPUN, GLEB ROSS

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS LILIA CHEKSTER, SYUZANNA MUAZEN

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER ANASTASIA KORETSKAYA

LEAD PRODUCER DMITRIY GOLUBICHNY

PRODUCERS - ALEXANDER AKOPOV, ANTON ZLATOPOLSKY, NATALIA SHEIDOROVA

IN REMEMBRANCE OF EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ALEXEI KUBLITSKY

PAVEL PETROVICH - PAVEL TABAKOV NIKITA PANIN - SERGEY KOLTAKOV

YEMELYAN PUGACHEV - ARTHUR IVANOV PRINCESS TARAKANOVA - ANGELINA STRECHINA

STEPAN SHESHKOVSKY - MIKHAIL GOREVOY ALEXEI ORLOV - ARTEM ALEXEEV

ANDREY RAZUMOVSKY - ALEXANDER TKACHIOV NATALIA ALEXEIEVNA - ALINA TOMNIKOV

GRIGORY POTEMKIN - VLADIMIR YAGLICH GAVRIIL DERZHAVIN - DANILA DUNAYEV

EKATERINA NELIDOVA - DIANA MILYUTINA LEFEBVRE - IGOR GRАBUZOV

KAZIMIERZ OGIŃSKI - ARTEM KRETOV MICHAŁ OGIŃSKI - DANIIL SLUTSKY

MARIA KAROLINA - OLGA MAKEEVA FERDINAND - SERGEY TESSLER

DENIS FONVIZIN - KUZMA SAPRYKIN ADAM OLSUFIEV - STANISLAV STRELKOV

EKATERINA THE GREAT MARINA ALEKSANDROVA

EKATERINA: PRETENDERS

KAZAN JULY 1774

Your Highness, Count Andrey Razumovsky is here to see you.

He wants to say goodbye, Your Highness.

Let him in.

Your Highness, I have been appointed Ambassador to Naples.

I came to say goodbye to my most reliable friend.

The most loyal, you mean.

Pavel Petrovich, I want you to know how precious your friendship is to me.

If you want to ask me something, do it. I swear, I'll tell you the truth.

Safe travels, Ambassador.

Chumak, open the cells! I will speak to them separately.

Where are the wife and children?

Where are the widow and children

of the ensign Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev?

Answer the tsar, you cur!

Nice move!

I warned you, Herod.

- What's there, mommy? - Hush.

- Don't. - Let me go, father is here!

- Trofim... - It was so bad without you, dad.

- Come here. - Daddy.

Christina, Agrafena. I didnt think I would see you alive.

Do not leave anymore, they tormented us, we cried.

There, there.

So, let's hug for the last time?

- Why for the last time, Yemelyan? - Go to your mom.

Because Im no longer Yemelyan, but sovereign Pyotr Fedorovich.

And you, kids, remember this. From now on, call me Your Majesty,

bow down to your waist, and do not dare raise your eyes.

So, let's hug?

- God save you, Pyotr Fedorovich! - Why are you thanking me?

For not killing us. For saving our lives.

Are you mad? Do you understand what you're saying?

What would you need us for, emperor? You have your own life now,

there's no place for us in it.

I don't live for myself, but for people. My life is over.

Wait. I will send for you.

You won't need for anything. You will live separately from me.

I am now the emperor, and perhaps

you are all that remains of Yemelyan Pugachev.

Ivan, there is a woman in the cell with children.

This is the family of Yemelyan Pugachev. He saved my life,

did not betray the sovereign, did not give up.

Find suitable housing for them, it must be warm, dry and rich.

Their father died, so let them at least live normally.

- You got me? - Will do, Your Majesty.

Good to see you, Count. We haven't seen each other

since the battle of Chesme, have we? Your flagship was more spacious then.

Thats okay, "Three hierarchs" has enough space for everyone.

No doubt about that. But I'm not living with you.

I know one beautiful salon on Via Duomo, I will go there.

Forget it. I am in charge of all finances.

We will live on the ship, easily: our cabins are next to each other.

If you want to take money - make a report.

- Are you assigned to follow me? - One could say so.

I gave the empress the word of a nobleman.

How much does this word cost if you decide to no longer be a nobleman?

But I still am a nobleman, so I can challenge you.

Well, don't rush into it. The road is long.

And he saw his right hand, seven stars...

Youll tell me now who you are and why you were sent to prison.

Hello, Your Majesty. I waited for you.

- Who are you? - Emperor Ivan Antonovich.

I know all your deeds and works. I know everything.

I know that you cant bear corruption, I know that you tested those

who call themselves apostles, and realized that they are liars.

- They are all liars. - They call him Mantis.

They say that he didnt eat or drink for three months, but still survived.

Ivan, write a decree.

I, the Emperor of All Russia, Tsar of Kazan, Father of the Homeland

by the mercy of God, and Autocrat Pyotr Fedorovich,

rescued from the dungeon Emperor Ivan…

- Antonovich. - Ivan Antonovich.

I saved him and restored justice trampled upon by the damned German girl.

Then I ask you to write another decree. That I, Ivan, the son of Anton,

renounce desires for the throne and my imperial title in your honor,

Sovereign Savior. “I will let him who overcomes me

to sit on my throne.” I swear to you, Emperor.

For 35 years I rotted in this... I was waiting for you and justice.

And here you are. And from now on,

I will serve you faithfully until I die. God bless you!

Get up, Ivan, the son of Anton. Royal blood flows in you, too.

- Come here, martyr. - God bless you!

- We will hold court together. - He is Count Panin's coachman, they say.

But he has no papers on him. I think he is a scout.

Or worse, he was sent to kill you, sire.

Why are you silent? Tell your emperor, how you got to us

without travelling papers? And why did you come here?

I came to you, emperor, for the truth. I set my Counts house on fire.

I took his medals. The soldiers took them away.

- You can consider it my papers. - Tvorog, find the medal.

Well, which Count Panin is yours? There are two of them.

Nikita Ivanovich, your wife's chief minister.

- Do you know his brother Pyotr? - I met him.

- Which of his eyes is bad? - They are both okay.

Okay then, listen well.

Loyal and worthy people come to me. Will you serve me?

I will. That is why I came here, sire.

Here is my first assignment: kill those two.

- Wait. What- - Sure, I will do it.

What are you doing? You can't cut him like cattle!

This is Gavriil Derzhavin. Russian poet.

- He praises the Russian word. - Don't listen to him, kill him!

Well pull the tongue out from the throat and see how praise-worthy it is.

Wait, we have time on our hands. Show us what you've got.

Dedicated to the emperor of Russia, Autocrat by the will of God,

Pyotr Fedorovich.

Its great and wonderful to sound in the country under clouds,

In honor of the emperor to raise the poet's lyre everywhere.

You save lives of infants, you write laws for the old,

You expand the science of the young, and settle vast wastelands.

The more people are quiet, the longer Pyotr is on the throne,

I agree with the Creator's will, A lot like Peter the Great he will.

- Now do your thing. - Wait.

You can live for now. Kill the other one.

You cannot kill him. He is the best violinist in the empire.

You brought the first violin to Russia. No one plays like Ivan Yakovlevich.

Well, play it. But if I don't like it,

I will skin you alive.

Send the rest of the officers to the gallows.

Go!

NAPLES CAPITAL OF THE KINGDOM OF NAPLES

Knees are bent. Move only the legs.

Guess my next moves. Where will I hit?

- You win again. - You lack dexterity and strength.

- Let's take the lighter ones. - Thank you.

Maybe women are better off using other tricks.

We have cards up our sleeves, too. Right, Michał?

You like me! Admit it.

Just why do you deprive me of your attention?

It's okay.

This is a duel. Both understand that blood may be shed.

You didn't answer my question.

I care about you, and this is natural. You are a woman, I am a man.

Of all the men I've met,

you're the only one who didn't try to sleep with me.

Michał doesn't count. What is stopping you?

Is it my past? Or the number of men I've been with?

Why would I care about your past? If you are so beautiful in the present.

Ten years ago, the Sejm elected the Polish king.

I wasn't the one elected. Catherine the Great made her lover,

Stanislav Ponyatovsky, the king by bribery and intrigue.

And then threw him out of her bed. He could not deal even with her,

let alone Poland. Poland is gone.

I can't believe it. Are you denying yourself?

When our work is successful, and you become the Russian Empress,

there should be no feelings between us.

- This is so noble of you. - I made my choice.

There are no rights for feelings. Everything I do, I do for Poland.

But how can one live like that?

Feelings interfere with politics. So either one or the other.

Many rulers manage to mix them. They do not deny themselves anything

and sit on the throne.

That is why they fail.

So, becoming the Empress, I will have to give up falling in love?

You must choose the people you want to have a relationship with carefully.

I dont know if I can... Is it "if I could have" in Russian?

You speak Russian better than I do. Your Highness.

Is it worth being “Highness” or “Majesty” if you need to give up falling in love?

I don't know what is more important to me.

- It was a mistake, God Merciful. - Stop shouting.

You will die soon, stop yelling.

- Your Majesty, we found one. - Is that it?

Sorry, sire. We will find the rest.

- Where will they go? - Why did you run away from your Emperor?

- You swore to me yesterday. - And they ran away later on at night.

- What's with the other one? - He didn't run, he was here.

- We took him with us just in case. - Why didn't you run?

I didn't travel all through Russia, just to run off.

- Why did they run? - What do you want from peasants?

I want them to fight for me, for their sovereign,

just like my Cossacks are fighting.

Who are you to them, sire? The new master instead of the old one?

- Hang the old one - set the new one. - Shut your mouth!

- You know who you're talking to? - Wait.

- Let the man speak. - They are not the Cossack people.

Peasants are used to their land. You remind them of Count Panin

and his secretary with your mindset.

- What? - Well, they say the same thing.

They promise to free them, but don't want to give them land.

Give them land

and they will follow you to the ends of the earth.

So, would you follow me?

I dont know, Emperor, let me go. I have small children...

- You have heard a lot from counts. - I rode with them a lot.

He is shooting his mouth off! Fedul, kill him.

Wait, I said! You see, they are great warriors,

but they aren't good at government affairs.

When we take Petersburg, I cannot appear in public with them.

Coachman, you should teach them how to behave at court.

Only the two of us know the rules. And I don't have time at all.

Get up! From now on you will be Count Panin.

And you all must all listen to him when it comes to manners.

And dress him like a Cossack. Am I being clear?

Yes, of course. What's with this one?

- Hang him. - It was a mistake, Your Majesty...

Come, Count, let's find you clothes.

The coachman got a high position. He became a Count.

Let's hope he doesn't fall from there.

- Hello, Grigory Alexandrovich. - Good to see you, Adam Vasilyevich.

- I have a message for the Empress. - Her Majesty cannot have you over now.

You are to hand over your weapon, as is right and proper.

I follow the instructions of Her Majesty. Imperial Council is in an hour.

The empress will listen to all the speakers at it.

Now please.

Thank you.

If a nobleman wants to meet you, he sends a secretary.

He agrees with the other secretary when the gentlemen have time to meet.

How didn't they die of boredom in Petersburg?

- Why would they? - They are captive.

- They enslaved themselves. - Right.

Men and women agree through a secretary to go to bed.

A gift for you from the Kazan road, Emperor.

An actual nobleman, a major no less!

He had a wife with him, we brought her too.

Well, here is your reward. You deserved it.

- What if I bring you a general? - If you bring me a general,

youll take the whole chest. Do whatever you want with the major.

- But what about the sovereign court? - I've held too many courts.

Let the Cossacks judge anyone they catch, there is one sentence for everyone.

Sire, the Cossacks are waiting.

They like watching you talk with the nobles.

The will of the people is a holy law. Let's go, Fedor.

And you think on how to teach my Cossacks some manners.

- Did you interrogate him? - Doesn't say a word, son of a bitch.

- What's your name? - Major Zakhar Ivanovich Kharlov.

Tell me, how many people are in the Kazan garrison?

We need to know how many gallows to set on Saturday.

Did you get scared, Zakhar Ivanovich? Did you run away from the service?

I wanted to take my wife to the Moscow city hall.

And immediately return to the garrison, to attack your brother.

Well, the Cossack assumes, and the Lord - you know.

Will you swear to the true emperor? So that you two could live a bit longer.

He swallowed his tongue!

I am sorry, dear Tanya.

I swore to the true Empress, and I will not serve the pretender.

Well, it's your call.

- Poet, say something festive! - The moment is not appropriate.

- Please, don't do this! - Not appropriate?

- Maybe I will play? - Do it.

- Don't do this, please! - Get up and watch!

Have mercy on him! For goodness sake!

- Knock it down! - No!

No!

Bring her here. And you, stop playing!

You are a beautiful broad.

- Will you swear to me? - You be damned!

Stupid broad. You will do as I say.

- No, I won't. - Yes, you will.

- No! - We will see about that.

- Bring her to my chamber. - No.

Tvorog!

You and I are in the wrong place, Ivan Yakovlevich.

Go away! Bring her here.

Please, don't touch me! Let me go!

- Did your legs get tired? - Let me go!

Don't do this, please!

We drove the Turkish army to Shumla and closed them in there.

This army no longer exists. We didn't destroy the Ottoman Empire.

- But this is a big victory. - Let's celebrate in Hagia Sophia!

Thanks to our victory, we will not send our troops

across the Danube, we will stay in Azov,

and take the Crimea, close all slave markets,

stop the piracy in the Black Sea and open it for trade.

But the straits and Constantinople will remain Turkish!

What are you talking about?! They cannot remain Turkish!

We must continue the campaign, defeat the Ottomans, destroy the empire.

You opened their doors to Constantinople. You knocked them out, one might say.

Nikita Ivanovich, I cant understand one thing.

I gave the order to transfer troops from the Turkish theater

to the fight against the pretender.

I believe my order has not been executed.

Yes, Nikita Ivanovich, I was for peace. And I stand by my words.

But now we can make peace on the conditions that we dictate.

And then transfer the army to suppress the rebels.

- God willing, we will make it on time. - I want to know your opinion.

Victory, Your Majesty, is extremely difficult.

But sometimes its even more difficult to deal with its fruits properly.

I believe that we cant go all the way, we dont need the straits,

and even more so Constantinople. First of all, we need to secure

our own borders, we need to get at least a temporary truce

in order to solve our affairs within the state.

We will sign the peace, send troops to Kazan,

and now let foreign policy deal with everything.

After all, it exists for that purpose.

Stepan Ivanovich, is there any news about the pretender?

He entered Kazan. The garrison locked themselves

in the Kremlin and holds a siege. But the city is ruined.

He released everyone from prisons, replenished his army with the escapees.

He hangs officers, nobles, everyone. But this is half the trouble.

Here. The pretender issued a manifesto.

“We reward all those who were formerly in the peasantry with liberty and freedom

of land ownership - without purchase and without rent.”

After this manifesto, thousands of peasants, Your Majesty,

from all the corners of the empire, where this paper goes, will come to him.

A boor... A boor did something that

we are hesitating to do, gentlemen. Obviously someone is helping him.

Stepan Ivanovich, stop Pugachev before the peasants,

deceived by these promises, go to him.

- And stop the spread of this manifesto. - We will do our best, Your Majesty.

We'll catch the pretenders people in all the surrounding garrisons.

Your Majesty, it's no secret

that Prince Shcherbatov incapable of commanding.

I suggested my brother to command the corps,

to suppress the rebellion. A commander with extended powers.

- You promised to think about it. - I remember.

Your Majesty, Suvorov can transfer troops before Pugachev reaches Moscow.

We'll manage without the punitive corps.

Nikita Ivanovich, maybe you're right. I appoint general en chef Pyotr Panin

commander of the corps against Pugachev.

Ill think about the extended powers

and inform you. Thank you, gentlemen.

Grigory Alexandrovich, stay.

So, Grigory Alexandrovich, would they have managed without you in your South?

- No, they wouldn't have. - Even Suvorov?

I delivered the gun on time. Barely made it.

- You know what you're guilty of. - No, I don't.

What happened that made you so distant?

It happened on Valdai. And you know about it.

What's with the island I gave to you?

That's what I'm guilty of?

Dear Catherine, forgive me. I spent all the money to fight

the epidemic and to pay the families of the dead.

I spent everything to the last penny.

Thanks to your island...

the project in the south is no longer waiting for money from the capital -

it is being built without delay.

- The money went to a good cause. - A good cause.

Grigory Alexandrovich, our close relationship is over.

Please explain yourself.

What is there to explain, when people dear to you become strangers?

You are wrong.

What did you talk with the Emperor about?

We talked about Petersburg. What are the current rules there.

Why should we know that? Well come to Petersburg

and establish our rules. Let everyone else know about it.

- Whatever. - You are weirdly quiet.

- Are you planning something? - Move over.

NAPLES THE ROYAL PALACE

The King is waiting for you.

- Here. - You are a mystery, Your Highness.

And since you ended up in Naples, I needed to get to know you personally.

It's an honor to meet you, Your Majesty.

- Are you the Olińskis? - The Ogińskis, Your Majesty.

I am Kazimierz, this is Michał - my nephew.

My fellow sufferers fled from the Russians from their native Poland.

Well, we are glad to help all those unjustly offended.

- Is it comfortable in the palazzo? - Thank you, Your Majesty.

After Venice, it seems that I found myself in paradise.

I request that you immediately inform me of all that Her Highness will need.

I will not allow the heiress to the Russian throne

to remain unhappy with her stay in Naples.

Will do, Your Majesty.

- I will have many sleepless nights. - Why, Your Majesty?

A new bright star lit up in our sky. Its light will not let me fall asleep.

I envy you gentlemen, you can enjoy this light every day.

I will be happy to send rays to you at the palace.

- If senor Oginsky doesn't mind... - Don't worry.

We are connected only by a common cause.

As a sign of special favor, I'll send you my cook.

Everyone is talking about Cagliostro, but trust me,

Senor Logazzi is a one real magician.

- And you will send him to us? - If you allow me to visit you

and taste his dishes with you.

Im afraid, Your Majesty, such a visit may cause unnecessary attention.

You are right. Looking at you, I forgot about caution.

We will postpone this visit to a better time.

Your Highness, senors, I must warn you:

an envoy from Russia arrived in Naples

to negotiate the status of the Russian squadron.

But you have nothing to worry about,

you are under my full protection,

just enjoy the weather.

Thank you for your hospitality.

I am enamored by Naples more and more every day.

And its King too, I hope.

“I no longer have the ability to fulfill basic duties,

as well as temporarily imputed duties associated with the construction

of new cities on new lands.”

Wrote in a hurry and gave me a draft.

There are six pages. Wrote the whole life as in a memoir.

I wanted to explain what I was striving for,

what goals I pursued, what plans I am now deprived of.

You deprived yourself of everything, Gregory.

- Crossed out all our plans. - You did it with your hand.

- You are my husband! - I was.

- We are history. - Do you feel sorry for yourself,

crawling out like a beaten dog, nurturing resentment?

I want to leave, not to disturb, not to remind myself of anything.

You wanted it from the very start. Duties have always been

more important than me. And I supported all your endeavors.

I still do. Dear Grigory.

- Grigory, stay. - I can't.

I... I dreamed of a beloved husband.

I wanted a child, I need a friend.

You have a bright mind, a pure heart, stay to serve Russia and me.

Who can protect me from the wrong decision?

- What decision? - Count Panin convinces me

that I should allow his brother to execute and pardon at his discretion

in four regions, in Moscow, too.

I don't have people to attack Pugachev. What am I to do?

God knows what they will do with such powers.

Help me, Grigory.

Dont give all powers to Pyotr Ivanovich.

Moscow is too large, he will choke.

He has no troops - let him sit in Moscow and recruit.

Meanwhile, we will make peace with the Turks,

and we will send Suvorov to Kazan. God willing, by August he will be there

and destroy the pretender. Send Nikita Ivanovich to the Turks -

this is what foreign policy for.

Separate the brothers,

so that the elder does not give advice to the younger?

That's smart, Grigory. I won't let you resign.

I appoint you the Governor General of New Russia.

I instruct you to help Suvorov in sending troops to defeat the rebels.

You wasted the paper, Grigory.

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