The Empress has discovered that being a tsar is not an easy task.#movie #shorts

The show is The Great.It tells the story of the rise of Ekaterina II Alexeevna, the only empress in Russian history to be called “The Great”, and her relationship with her husband, Peter III Feodorovich. Catherine was introduced to Peter at the age of 10 as a tool for European royalty to use marriage to control political ties between nations. Although she admits to finding him repulsive at first, the two married after she turned 16.#movie #shorts

[whittenaw]

Don't tell stuffy old lord's your plans until you have the power firm within your grasp

[kekekeke]

As a swede with russian heritage i hail catherine, she gave a meter to take miles in knowledge and experience.

[meganlewis]

Peter died of Gagrene. I'm assuming that's what they were talking about.

[TheGeneralGrievous]

She was not so much a good guy irl. And she actually reversed an edict by Peter III that freed the serfs in the lands of the Church & allowed the nobles to punish them by sending them to Siberia. She also was imperialistic, taking over lands such as: Novorossiya, Crimea, the North Caucasus, right-bank Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and Courland, making Poland-Luthuania loose it's independence.

[mcvenne]

Seefdom reached its apogy under her reign irl, but okay. 😅

[nataliapanchyshyn]

I hate how much nicer she is portrayed in this show compared to her real deeds

[iwgbhxj]

Actually Peter has started to undo serfdom, she undid his reforms and expanded it.

[samanthabarron]

You never tell your plan from the beginning… first rule of politics

[StephaniGC]

idk y but the priest or whatever he is in the church when he takes his hats off i swear he looks like a rock n roll musician lol

[granierthomas]

She didn't abolish serfdom, but for her defence, it was a that time a huge part of the economic manpower and was badly needed because of the incoming industrial revolution, the serfs uprisings in the 1770's didn't help their case and the French Revolution bury any chance of drastic changes in Russia for the next decades

[TDdelta]

*Being a Tsarina (Empress) not a Tsar (Emperor).

[jaidmonteith]

What is the name of the series? Absolutely love watching the shorts I see

[medusagorgon]

Honestly I would have waited to announce my plans.

[inkblossom]

Catherine did not end serfdom! What is this nonsense? Read history.

[billabong]

Why do they have British accents though. Like wtf? Just have neutral accents.

[nichevo]

Is this show really trying to make a good guy out of Catherine the Great?

[samueleveleigh]

Yea, theres a reason why more... Stable countries like to enact change both indirectly and slowly.

The person at the top may change to a benevolent queen but the guys in the middle will never undertake such a drastic change.

[caliburn]

Yeah Catherine the great, the great onw who reinstituted serfdom and all efforts to remove it,

The one who mentally tortured her own son into becoming near deranged

[tatiana]

1:20:00 took me a while to realise his voice sounds different

[No-juxz]

Disgusting. She didn't end serfdom. There's a lot of misinformation going around in this world. You're not helping.