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Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №2. Testament of the Empress
Directed by
Svetlana Druzhinina
Having enthroned the wife of Peter the Great and his mistress Catherine I, Menshikov receives unlimited power, thereby causing envy and indignation of his former allies in the coup. Taking advantage of his absence, they are plotting against His Serene Highness. But once again, luck accompanies the brave darling of fortune: having received a warning of mortal danger, he escapes arrest and enters the boudoir of the Empress.
The story
Having enthroned the wife of Peter the Great and his mistress Catherine I, Menshikov receives unlimited power, thereby causing envy and indignation of his former allies in the coup. Taking advantage of his absence, they are plotting against His Serene Highness. But once again, luck accompanies the brave darling of fortune: having received a warning of mortal danger, he escapes arrest and enters the boudoir of the Empress.
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Cast
Natalya YegorovaCatherine I
Sergey ShakurovAlexander Menshikov
Ekaterina NikitinaElizaveta Petrovna
Irina LachinaGrand Duchess Anna Petrovna
Dmitriy VerkeyenkoPeter II
Aleksandr KorzhenkovHenning Friedrich von Bassewitz
Nina RuslanovaAnna Ioannovna
Aleksandr Lazarev Jr.Ernst Johann von Biron
Andrey MezhulisCarl Frederick of Sweden
Fyodor DobronravovФедор Суров (Fyodor Surov)
Vladimir SoshalskyGeneral Saltykov
Andrei DavydovAnton de Vieira
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Vladimir KoppalovPyotr Tolstoy
Vladimir IlinAndrey Osterman
Dmitriy KharatyanIvan Dolgorukov
Alexandr KakhunJean Armand de Lestocq
Yelizaveta NikishchikhinaKammer-Frau Kramer
Yuriy StoskovIvan Buturlin
Надежда ДружининаNatalia Alexeievna
Anna ShtukaturovaAnna Leopoldovna (in childhood)
Vladimir Tishenkovlittle person 1
Valery Svetlovlittle person 2
Yuri DoroninRabutin
Valeriy Ivakov
Pavel Makhotin
Vladimir Pivovarov
Yuriy Sokolov
Vladimir Shikhov
Даниил Мукасей
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