Ekaterina (2014–…): Season 1, Episode 12 - Episode #1.12 - full transcript
TV Channel Russia
Written by Arif Aliev
Art director Vladimir Menshov
Directed by Alexandr Baranov,
Ramil Sabitov
Camera - Maxim Shinkorenko
Production Designers
Sergey Vorobjev, Sergey Onipenko
Music by Nikolai Rostov
Make-up Artists
Marina Dedova, Ilona Levitskaya
Leading Editor
Nadezhda Tarnovskaya
Leading Producer
Alexei Kublitsky
Producers - Alexandr Akopov
Ekaterina Efanova,
Natalia Shneiderova
Empress Elizaveta I - Yulia Aug
Grand Duke Pyotr Fyodorovich,
Emperor Peter III - Alexandr Yatsenko
Count Bestuzhev - Vladimir Menshov
Count Lestocq - Konstantin Lavronenko
Count Razumovsky
Prince Saltykov - Rinal Mukhametov
Captain Orlov - Sergey Strelnikov
Princess Johanna - Isabel Schosnig
Count Shuvalov - Nikolai Kozak
General Apraksin -Vitaly Kravchenko
Jemma - Elena Shamova
Pimen - Ivan Dobronravov
Matrena - Svetlana Korchagina
Prince Ponyatovsky - Aleksei Vorobyev
Brekdorf - Maxim Kerin
Betskoy - Kirill Rubtsov
Frederick II - Hartmut Krug
Mardefelt - Vitus Eisenach
Chetardie - Patrick Roullier Rollin
Nanny of Tsar Ivan VI -
Valentina Talyzina
With Marina Alexandrova
as Ekaterina II
AEKATERINA
Behind you!
Bastards!
There!
Attack him.
The Emperor's servants
are as weak as he is.
Grigory, I thought
I'd never see you again.
Go!
Alexey, ride forward,
alert the regiment.
Go.
Speak, Alexander.
Ekaterina has fled the palace.
With someone's help probably.
Several of my people were killed.
Search!
Find!
Ekaterina and everyone,
every single one
who has helped her
are to be sent to prison!
To the torture chambers!
Your Majesty,
I beg you!
Count, bring Ekaterina back
to the palace.
Hush, you'll wake the baby.
Give me.
Here is your son, Grigory Orlov.
Son.
Hello...
- Ivan.
- I named him Alexey.
Alexey won't do.
Ivan is a good name.
Ivan is power and bravery,
a generous soul. And it's the father
who should name a child.
We will christen him Alexey.
Let it be Alexey then.
I'll get used to it.
Lord willing,
Alexey will have siblings.
No time for dreaming now.
It's time to think about rescue.
Grigory, I want to address officers.
I don't ask to agree; I ask
to argue, think, and advise.
The soldiers and officers
are very discontented now.
Entire Prussia is flooded
with Russian blood.
And Pyotr has surrendered
the victory.
- They must.
They must, Ekaterina Alekseevna.
But isn't it better to wait for
the Army to return from Prussia?
If they're late, I'll die in the prison
or in a monastery!
I won't let it happen. Trust me.
You need to get your
strength back. Rest now.
It's all in Lord's hands.
God be with you, Grigory.
If I'm needed, I'll be there at once.
As Russia withdraws from the war, its former allies,
Austria and France, suffer a string of crushing defeats.
The Germans consider
Emperor Frederick the winner.
By tilting the odds in Prussia’s favor,
Pyotr Fyodorovich now faces the wrath of his own people.
Barracks of Izmailovsky Regiment
June 1762
I ask for a resolute and swift advance.
I don't discuss the military
course of the coup,
you know it and will do it better
than me.
With God's help and your
support I promise
to rule Russia fairly and prudently.
Catherine, we don't know yet
who will support us
and who will prefer to betray us.
For the coup I need a hundred
of resolute officers.
Above all they must be swift
and ready to stand till the end.
On June 29th,
Pyotr Fyodorovich will be wed.
And after that he'll be able to
do anything to you and to me.
We must advance before that.
Brave officers, who is with me?
Line up!
First platoon, line up!
Fifth squadron, line up!
Second squadron, line up!
My angel,
protect me from rage and envy,
defeat my enemies,
give me strength.
It's time, Your Majesty.
Arrest her and send her to
the fortress. Why do you loiter?
Your Majesty, to arrest her, we
must crush a guard regiment.
Moreover we don't know
who else supports the coup.
Why don't you know?
You must know!
The secret office has been
disbanded as per your order.
Our investigative capabilities
are limited.
You're right. Good deeds
have turned into evil.
If I ever intend to do another
good deed,
please, remind me of
this terrible day.
Your Majesty, you'd better leave.
We shall stay and
gather the officers loyal to you.
Why do you need to gather anybody?
They must come and protect me
on their own. They are sworn to me.
Your Majesty, this is a coup.
Some of them have already
decided to go against you.
The situation is highly unpredictable.
What do you suggest
For me to run? I'm the Emperor!
Let Ekaterina take her son
and leave.
Tell her I don't mind.
Can you tell her that?
Your Majesty, we cannot.
For another thing, it's prudent
to take Pavel with you.
Alexander, it's low -
to hide behind a child.
Do you want to save yourself?
I do.
Prepare to fight!
There will be many of them, Pyotr.
Don't ask me, Lizaveta,
I won't run.
20 years of waiting,
the longed-for freedom.
I am the lawful Emperor.
I am not ill.
I've never felt better.
I love and I am loved.
And now this is the end.
Disgrace is ahead.
The life of a dependant
from the silly relatives in Holstein.
I prefer death.
Your Majesty, here it is, the seal.
Where is the will?
There might not be a will at all.
What will be your first decree,
Your Majesty?
I think I know where it might be.
Officers,
I'm a bad commander
and a bad Emperor.
I order you to surrender your weapons!
Surrender them!
Save yourselves! Run, run!
Go, Your Majesty.
I will delay them.
No, no, my friend.
You go.
Save yourself.
Kneel before the Empress!
Are you cold, Your Highness?
Your Majesty.
Count, I have always respected you.
Are you looking for this?
- Nobody needs it anymore.
- Give me.
Let me take a look.
The will of Empress Elizabeth.
I declare count Alexey Razumovsky
the heir to the Russian throne
after my death.
You had wed her.
She named you the heir to
the throne.
Please note that both the will
and the registry of
marriage are genuine.
But you decided to keep it
a secret.
Why so?
Do what you want to do.
Count,
would you like to return to
the service?
Let me leave for my estate,
Your Majesty.
As you wish.
If you surrender the palace,
we shall remain friends.
Your friendship is invaluable
to me.
But let me ask for one favor.
Don't execute Pyotr Fyodorovich.
- He considered me a friend.
Was he mistaken?
Your Majesty,
Empress Elizabeth did many
dark deeds.
But for the 20 years of her reign
she hadn't executed a person.
She left alive the Emperor
she had dethroned.
Ivan lives a terrible life.
It's impossible.
Yet it's a life.
I don't intend to reave Pyotr of life.
But the Army considers him a traitor.
Lisaveta, why do I reject
the life of a dependant?
We will love each other,
raise our children,
play ball. Is it happiness
to be an Emperor?
Is it really the end?
Would I leave no memory
behind me as I die?
Not a single of your actions
resulted in someone's death.
You are kind.
I'm ashamed, Liza!
It's all dust. Soon you'll witness
my pitiful demise.
No, I want to live my life
with you, Pyotr,
in love and happiness.
I want to listen to your violin,
want to raise our children...
But if this is never to be,
we shall die together.
We will be joined in Heaven.
A very clever person and
I've never guessed it.
Your Majesty, why then we
let this clever person go?
As I see it, Empress Elizabeth
herself named him
- the Emperor in her will.
- There is no will.
And never has been.
He rejected it on his own.
Grigory, promise me
that you won't lay a finger on Pyotr.
I promise, Your Majesty.
Ekaterina is kind
deep down in her soul.
She won't do that.
Blood of Peter the Great flows in you.
They wouldn't dare
to lay their hand on you.
What are you doing, gentlemen?
Are you mad? It is a theater!
It was a theater.
Now there will be stables.
What do you want from us, gentlemen?
From you personally
we want nothing. Go.
What? I won't go anywhere.
I'll stay with Peter.
Gentlemen, Elizaveta is my wife;
she has the right to know anything
you want to say to me!
Don't touch her!
Unhand her! Liza!
- Hush, don't struggle!
- Let me go!
Petya!
Pyotr Fyodorovich, write it down.
Let me go, you brute, unhand me!
Quiet, you mad woman! Go away,
your lame majesty!
He will relinquish everything
and I don't need anything;
- just let us be together!
Why do you want that?
Do you want to die?
What?
Petya dear! They'll kill you! Run!
Shut up
or I'll cripple your other leg.
Move fast and gag her.
For my entire life I relinquish
the aforementioned state
as I have no desire to rule it
either absolutely
or by any other form of government
as well as to strive for it
by means of somebody
else's assistance.
Why do I abdicate in favor
of Ekaterina?
Pavel is the heir to the throne.
Sign it.
I wanted to implement the reforms.
I wished for Russia to become
a European state.
She is European.
It is Frederick
who thinks us below him.
And you gave up Prussia
that had sworn to Russia.
You are a weak man.
You are a traitor.
Losing East Prussia would've
eliminated the very thought
about the German motherland.
Russia and Prussia are bound.
- I saved Russia!
- I won't argue with you.
I just tell you that they are
ravings of a madman.
The Russian Emperor shouldn't
care about the German homeland.
Sign it, we are waiting.
What will happen to Elizaveta?
Is she pregnant?
In that case nothing will happen.
She'll be dismissed from the maids
of honour and married off.
But Elizaveta wishes to marry me.
- Too late.
- Watch your tongue, Alexey.
Why?
He has thousands of our
friends' lives on his head.
He thought he was playing
with the toy soldiers.
Will you give me poison?
We don't have any poison.
It's my own fault.
I matured too late.
Too late.
Shlisselburg fortress
June 1762
I am very glad to see you.
To see your face,
your eyes,
your body.
Excuse the disorder;
I am Emperor Ivan VI
- Ekaterina.
Ekaterina...
- I've been told you can't...
No, I can speak;
it is that nobody has spoken
to me for a long time.
But I know Bible by heart
and I recite it aloud to myself.
- My kind nanny did.
And this soldier was given
to me by a kind magician.
His name is Pyotr.
I pray for him every day.
I haven't brought you anything.
I am glad to see you.
I will pray for you too.
Will you set me free?
I will.
I saw a bird once.
It was the most beautiful thing
I've ever seen!
Your Majesty, do you know
about the order to put
the secret prisoner to death
upon an attempt to free him?
Does the order stand?
The order stands.
Will be any further orders about
the fate of the secret prisoner?
Act upon your conscience.
Please, clarify, Your Majesty.
You are a brave and noble person;
you will make
- the only right choice.
- I understand, Your Majesty.
It's terrible.
Officer, stop it! It is an antique
violin, a precious instrument;
you might ruin it.
Alas, I was never taught to play
a violin.
Care to play, Your ex
Open up, I have an order from the
Empress to free the secret prisoner!
I want to see the bird!
- It doesn't matter now.
Why have you come?
My place is next to you and my son.
You are 7 years late.
Soldiers must serve.
Good night to you.
September, 1762
By the Grace of God, Ekaterina II.
Empress and autocratrix
of all the Russias,
Moscow, Kiev,
Vladimir, Novgorod,
Queen of Kazan,
Queen of Astrakhan,
Queen of Siberia,
Monarchess of Suzdal,
and Grand Duchess of Pskov,
Duchess of Estland,
Livonia, Karelia,
Tver, Yugra, Perm,
Vyatka, Bulgaria and other,
Chernigov, Ryazan,
Rostov, Yaroslavl,
Belozero, Khutor...
Empress Ekaterina II was crowned
on September 13th, 1762,
and reigned her empire for 34 years.
She was named 'the Great' while alive.
Of the lands Circassian,
Caucasian and other,
the hereditary Monarchess
and Domina.
Written by Arif Aliev
Art director Vladimir Menshov
Directed by Alexandr Baranov,
Ramil Sabitov
Camera - Maxim Shinkorenko
Production Designers
Sergey Vorobjev, Sergey Onipenko
Music by Nikolai Rostov
Make-up Artists
Marina Dedova, Ilona Levitskaya
Leading Editor
Nadezhda Tarnovskaya
Leading Producer
Alexei Kublitsky
Producers - Alexandr Akopov
Ekaterina Efanova,
Natalia Shneiderova
Empress Elizaveta I - Yulia Aug
Grand Duke Pyotr Fyodorovich,
Emperor Peter III - Alexandr Yatsenko
Count Bestuzhev - Vladimir Menshov
Count Lestocq - Konstantin Lavronenko
Count Razumovsky
Prince Saltykov - Rinal Mukhametov
Captain Orlov - Sergey Strelnikov
Princess Johanna - Isabel Schosnig
Count Shuvalov - Nikolai Kozak
General Apraksin -Vitaly Kravchenko
Jemma - Elena Shamova
Pimen - Ivan Dobronravov
Matrena - Svetlana Korchagina
Prince Ponyatovsky - Aleksei Vorobyev
Brekdorf - Maxim Kerin
Betskoy - Kirill Rubtsov
Frederick II - Hartmut Krug
Mardefelt - Vitus Eisenach
Chetardie - Patrick Roullier Rollin
Nanny of Tsar Ivan VI -
Valentina Talyzina
With Marina Alexandrova
as Ekaterina II
AEKATERINA
Behind you!
Bastards!
There!
Attack him.
The Emperor's servants
are as weak as he is.
Grigory, I thought
I'd never see you again.
Go!
Alexey, ride forward,
alert the regiment.
Go.
Speak, Alexander.
Ekaterina has fled the palace.
With someone's help probably.
Several of my people were killed.
Search!
Find!
Ekaterina and everyone,
every single one
who has helped her
are to be sent to prison!
To the torture chambers!
Your Majesty,
I beg you!
Count, bring Ekaterina back
to the palace.
Hush, you'll wake the baby.
Give me.
Here is your son, Grigory Orlov.
Son.
Hello...
- Ivan.
- I named him Alexey.
Alexey won't do.
Ivan is a good name.
Ivan is power and bravery,
a generous soul. And it's the father
who should name a child.
We will christen him Alexey.
Let it be Alexey then.
I'll get used to it.
Lord willing,
Alexey will have siblings.
No time for dreaming now.
It's time to think about rescue.
Grigory, I want to address officers.
I don't ask to agree; I ask
to argue, think, and advise.
The soldiers and officers
are very discontented now.
Entire Prussia is flooded
with Russian blood.
And Pyotr has surrendered
the victory.
- They must.
They must, Ekaterina Alekseevna.
But isn't it better to wait for
the Army to return from Prussia?
If they're late, I'll die in the prison
or in a monastery!
I won't let it happen. Trust me.
You need to get your
strength back. Rest now.
It's all in Lord's hands.
God be with you, Grigory.
If I'm needed, I'll be there at once.
As Russia withdraws from the war, its former allies,
Austria and France, suffer a string of crushing defeats.
The Germans consider
Emperor Frederick the winner.
By tilting the odds in Prussia’s favor,
Pyotr Fyodorovich now faces the wrath of his own people.
Barracks of Izmailovsky Regiment
June 1762
I ask for a resolute and swift advance.
I don't discuss the military
course of the coup,
you know it and will do it better
than me.
With God's help and your
support I promise
to rule Russia fairly and prudently.
Catherine, we don't know yet
who will support us
and who will prefer to betray us.
For the coup I need a hundred
of resolute officers.
Above all they must be swift
and ready to stand till the end.
On June 29th,
Pyotr Fyodorovich will be wed.
And after that he'll be able to
do anything to you and to me.
We must advance before that.
Brave officers, who is with me?
Line up!
First platoon, line up!
Fifth squadron, line up!
Second squadron, line up!
My angel,
protect me from rage and envy,
defeat my enemies,
give me strength.
It's time, Your Majesty.
Arrest her and send her to
the fortress. Why do you loiter?
Your Majesty, to arrest her, we
must crush a guard regiment.
Moreover we don't know
who else supports the coup.
Why don't you know?
You must know!
The secret office has been
disbanded as per your order.
Our investigative capabilities
are limited.
You're right. Good deeds
have turned into evil.
If I ever intend to do another
good deed,
please, remind me of
this terrible day.
Your Majesty, you'd better leave.
We shall stay and
gather the officers loyal to you.
Why do you need to gather anybody?
They must come and protect me
on their own. They are sworn to me.
Your Majesty, this is a coup.
Some of them have already
decided to go against you.
The situation is highly unpredictable.
What do you suggest
For me to run? I'm the Emperor!
Let Ekaterina take her son
and leave.
Tell her I don't mind.
Can you tell her that?
Your Majesty, we cannot.
For another thing, it's prudent
to take Pavel with you.
Alexander, it's low -
to hide behind a child.
Do you want to save yourself?
I do.
Prepare to fight!
There will be many of them, Pyotr.
Don't ask me, Lizaveta,
I won't run.
20 years of waiting,
the longed-for freedom.
I am the lawful Emperor.
I am not ill.
I've never felt better.
I love and I am loved.
And now this is the end.
Disgrace is ahead.
The life of a dependant
from the silly relatives in Holstein.
I prefer death.
Your Majesty, here it is, the seal.
Where is the will?
There might not be a will at all.
What will be your first decree,
Your Majesty?
I think I know where it might be.
Officers,
I'm a bad commander
and a bad Emperor.
I order you to surrender your weapons!
Surrender them!
Save yourselves! Run, run!
Go, Your Majesty.
I will delay them.
No, no, my friend.
You go.
Save yourself.
Kneel before the Empress!
Are you cold, Your Highness?
Your Majesty.
Count, I have always respected you.
Are you looking for this?
- Nobody needs it anymore.
- Give me.
Let me take a look.
The will of Empress Elizabeth.
I declare count Alexey Razumovsky
the heir to the Russian throne
after my death.
You had wed her.
She named you the heir to
the throne.
Please note that both the will
and the registry of
marriage are genuine.
But you decided to keep it
a secret.
Why so?
Do what you want to do.
Count,
would you like to return to
the service?
Let me leave for my estate,
Your Majesty.
As you wish.
If you surrender the palace,
we shall remain friends.
Your friendship is invaluable
to me.
But let me ask for one favor.
Don't execute Pyotr Fyodorovich.
- He considered me a friend.
Was he mistaken?
Your Majesty,
Empress Elizabeth did many
dark deeds.
But for the 20 years of her reign
she hadn't executed a person.
She left alive the Emperor
she had dethroned.
Ivan lives a terrible life.
It's impossible.
Yet it's a life.
I don't intend to reave Pyotr of life.
But the Army considers him a traitor.
Lisaveta, why do I reject
the life of a dependant?
We will love each other,
raise our children,
play ball. Is it happiness
to be an Emperor?
Is it really the end?
Would I leave no memory
behind me as I die?
Not a single of your actions
resulted in someone's death.
You are kind.
I'm ashamed, Liza!
It's all dust. Soon you'll witness
my pitiful demise.
No, I want to live my life
with you, Pyotr,
in love and happiness.
I want to listen to your violin,
want to raise our children...
But if this is never to be,
we shall die together.
We will be joined in Heaven.
A very clever person and
I've never guessed it.
Your Majesty, why then we
let this clever person go?
As I see it, Empress Elizabeth
herself named him
- the Emperor in her will.
- There is no will.
And never has been.
He rejected it on his own.
Grigory, promise me
that you won't lay a finger on Pyotr.
I promise, Your Majesty.
Ekaterina is kind
deep down in her soul.
She won't do that.
Blood of Peter the Great flows in you.
They wouldn't dare
to lay their hand on you.
What are you doing, gentlemen?
Are you mad? It is a theater!
It was a theater.
Now there will be stables.
What do you want from us, gentlemen?
From you personally
we want nothing. Go.
What? I won't go anywhere.
I'll stay with Peter.
Gentlemen, Elizaveta is my wife;
she has the right to know anything
you want to say to me!
Don't touch her!
Unhand her! Liza!
- Hush, don't struggle!
- Let me go!
Petya!
Pyotr Fyodorovich, write it down.
Let me go, you brute, unhand me!
Quiet, you mad woman! Go away,
your lame majesty!
He will relinquish everything
and I don't need anything;
- just let us be together!
Why do you want that?
Do you want to die?
What?
Petya dear! They'll kill you! Run!
Shut up
or I'll cripple your other leg.
Move fast and gag her.
For my entire life I relinquish
the aforementioned state
as I have no desire to rule it
either absolutely
or by any other form of government
as well as to strive for it
by means of somebody
else's assistance.
Why do I abdicate in favor
of Ekaterina?
Pavel is the heir to the throne.
Sign it.
I wanted to implement the reforms.
I wished for Russia to become
a European state.
She is European.
It is Frederick
who thinks us below him.
And you gave up Prussia
that had sworn to Russia.
You are a weak man.
You are a traitor.
Losing East Prussia would've
eliminated the very thought
about the German motherland.
Russia and Prussia are bound.
- I saved Russia!
- I won't argue with you.
I just tell you that they are
ravings of a madman.
The Russian Emperor shouldn't
care about the German homeland.
Sign it, we are waiting.
What will happen to Elizaveta?
Is she pregnant?
In that case nothing will happen.
She'll be dismissed from the maids
of honour and married off.
But Elizaveta wishes to marry me.
- Too late.
- Watch your tongue, Alexey.
Why?
He has thousands of our
friends' lives on his head.
He thought he was playing
with the toy soldiers.
Will you give me poison?
We don't have any poison.
It's my own fault.
I matured too late.
Too late.
Shlisselburg fortress
June 1762
I am very glad to see you.
To see your face,
your eyes,
your body.
Excuse the disorder;
I am Emperor Ivan VI
- Ekaterina.
Ekaterina...
- I've been told you can't...
No, I can speak;
it is that nobody has spoken
to me for a long time.
But I know Bible by heart
and I recite it aloud to myself.
- My kind nanny did.
And this soldier was given
to me by a kind magician.
His name is Pyotr.
I pray for him every day.
I haven't brought you anything.
I am glad to see you.
I will pray for you too.
Will you set me free?
I will.
I saw a bird once.
It was the most beautiful thing
I've ever seen!
Your Majesty, do you know
about the order to put
the secret prisoner to death
upon an attempt to free him?
Does the order stand?
The order stands.
Will be any further orders about
the fate of the secret prisoner?
Act upon your conscience.
Please, clarify, Your Majesty.
You are a brave and noble person;
you will make
- the only right choice.
- I understand, Your Majesty.
It's terrible.
Officer, stop it! It is an antique
violin, a precious instrument;
you might ruin it.
Alas, I was never taught to play
a violin.
Care to play, Your ex
Open up, I have an order from the
Empress to free the secret prisoner!
I want to see the bird!
- It doesn't matter now.
Why have you come?
My place is next to you and my son.
You are 7 years late.
Soldiers must serve.
Good night to you.
September, 1762
By the Grace of God, Ekaterina II.
Empress and autocratrix
of all the Russias,
Moscow, Kiev,
Vladimir, Novgorod,
Queen of Kazan,
Queen of Astrakhan,
Queen of Siberia,
Monarchess of Suzdal,
and Grand Duchess of Pskov,
Duchess of Estland,
Livonia, Karelia,
Tver, Yugra, Perm,
Vyatka, Bulgaria and other,
Chernigov, Ryazan,
Rostov, Yaroslavl,
Belozero, Khutor...
Empress Ekaterina II was crowned
on September 13th, 1762,
and reigned her empire for 34 years.
She was named 'the Great' while alive.
Of the lands Circassian,
Caucasian and other,
the hereditary Monarchess
and Domina.