| Catherine the Great | |
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| Екатерина Bеликая | |
| Genre | History Serial drama |
| Created by | Igor Zaitsev |
| Starring | Yuliya Snigir(Season 1) Elizaveta Boyarskaya(Season 2) Natalia Surkova Pavel Derevyanko Sergey Shakurov Ilya Noskov Pavel Trubiner |
| Country of origin | Russia |
| Original language | Russian |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Ruben Dishdishyan |
| Production locations | Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast |
| Editor | Goran Pavichevich |
| Running time | 50 Minutes per episode |
| Production company | Mars Media |
| Original release | |
| Network | 1TV |
| Release | 4 November 2015 (2015-11-04) – 2023 (2023) |
Catherine The Great (Russian:Великая) is a 2015 Russian television series starringYuliya Snigir asCatherine the Great. It was released in November 2015 onChannel One Russia.
The history ofCatherine the Great from the moment she arrived inRussia as the new bride of Peter III and her ascent to the Russian throne.
Nearly 20 years of palace intrigues, conspiracies, the struggle for power and personal dramas.[1][2][3]
Filming was completed from December 2013 to August 2014 inSaint Petersburg andLeningrad Oblast (includingPeter and Paul Fortress,Constantine Palace, Gatchina, andLenfilm Studios).[3][4]
The crew is working on scenarios of the second and third season. They will tell the life of the Empress from 1762 to 1775 and from 1775 to 1796, respectively.[2] The second season was expected to finish filming in 2016.
Information on the show during the making of the 2nd and 3rd seasons can be seen on the wayback machine.[5][6]
Both the Second and Third seasons have been released. Season 2 involves Ekaterina, her sons, her relationship with the eldest Orlov brother, and Count Panin. Season 3 expands on some of second seasons’s storylines, while focusing on two of history’s better-known Pretenders who claimed the Russian throne rightfully belonged to them.