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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,800 - Well, what do you want? - Nothing. 2 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,800 Then what are you doing here? 3 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Just came to say good-bye. 4 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:05,000 Well, that's easy. Good-bye. 5 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,000 And to wish you a very happy marriage. 6 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:12,000 - I'm not getting married. - I'm afraid you are. 7 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:14,000 The lady has already arrived. 8 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:16,800 And Ogarev is here to fetch you. 9 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,800 Good-bye. 10 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,000 To the devil with you! And Ogarev! 11 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:24,200 And the empress with you! 12 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,600 What am I, a child to be fetched and married... 13 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,200 and ordered about by a parcel of women? 14 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,600 Heir to the throne. 15 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:36,200 Heir to a baby's rattle and a box of toys! 16 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:40,200 Get out! Out of here, all of you! Go on! Get out! 17 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:42,600 All of you, out of here! 18 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:50,000 Didn't you hear me, Orlov? 19 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,000 - You need one friend. - Friend! 20 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:02,600 I-I'm sorry, Grigory. 21 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:05,000 Well, i-it's these women. 22 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:09,000 The empress treating me like a half-witted child. 23 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:11,800 Sending to fetch me home to marry some... some girl... 24 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:13,800 Since you must marry some time or other... 25 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,000 wouldn't it be wiser to face it and get it over? 26 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,600 But I loathe the whole idea of marriage. 27 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,200 Watched on. Spied on! 28 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:26,000 Peter, you must learn to control yourself. I'm always telling you. 29 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:29,200 Remember that one day you will rule Russia. 30 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,600 Russia! 31 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,200 Does it take such a fine character to rule Russia? 32 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,600 Look at my aunt, the empress. 33 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:41,200 If she weren't on the throne she'd be on the streets. 34 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:43,800 Russia knows it and Russia loves it. 35 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,000 To the most shameless rake that ever wore a petticoat... 36 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:53,000 Elisabeth, empress of all the Russias. 37 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:55,200 Her Imperial Majesty... 38 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:59,600 Elisabeth, Empress of all the Russias! 39 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:10,400 That's all right, ladies. 40 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:28,000 So you've been trying to upset my plans again, Bestujhev. 41 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,000 I've brought this girl all the way from Germany... 42 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:32,400 and the marriage will take place whether you like it or not. 43 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:34,600 - But when I think Your Majesty is wrong... - Shut up! 44 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:37,400 You've no business to think I'm wrong. I'm not wrong! 45 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:39,600 Shut up, I tell you! That's enough! 46 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:43,800 Get out! 47 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:02,000 Bestujhev! Bestujhev! 48 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:27,200 - If you could see yourself! - I wish to resign Your Majesty's service. 49 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,400 Fiddlesticks! 50 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:49,800 They will be married in three months. 51 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,600 The girl has to change her religion, of course... 52 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:56,200 and she must have a new name. 53 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,600 Let's see. Alexandra. 54 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:05,800 - Alexandra? - Why not Alexandra? 55 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,800 Such a great name for a slip of a girl. 56 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:10,800 Call her Alexandra, if you like. 57 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,800 I prefer Catherine. 58 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,200 All right. 59 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:17,200 You see how reasonable I am? 60 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:20,600 Let the little one be called Catherine. 61 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:28,800 Couldn't we stop for a moment? 62 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,200 The empress and the grand duke are waiting for us. 63 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:35,400 Yes, I know, but Russia just takes my breath away. 64 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:38,200 The country's so vast... 65 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:42,200 the corridors in the palace are so endless. 66 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:44,800 I have the feeling we lived in a hut in Germany. 67 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,800 We lived at the castle in Stettin, Lieutenant Orlov. 68 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:50,800 Pull yourself together, please. 69 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,600 And don't forget the deep curtsy before the empress. 70 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:57,200 She might then give you her hand to kiss, or she might embrace and kiss you. 71 00:09:57,400 --> 00:09:59,400 Kiss me? 72 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:03,000 But how shall I know which is the grand duke? 73 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,000 - He will stand at the empress's right. - Yes. 74 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:08,600 - Is he as tall as you? - Taller, Your Highness. 75 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,400 Taller? 76 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:14,400 - Shall I just shake hands with him? - He might kiss your hand. 77 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:16,600 - Let him kiss your hand. - Yes. 78 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:18,600 Don't ask any more questions. 79 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:22,400 Now, hold yourself up. Shoulders back. Look at me. 80 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:24,600 Now. 81 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,000 Why aren't you in full dress? 82 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:31,000 To meet a couple of country cousins? 83 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,600 To meet the girl you're going to marry. 84 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,200 - But I'm not. - The throne must have an heir. 85 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:42,800 - The throne has an heir. - Yes, but you won't live forever. 86 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,400 And if you don't marry and have a son, I must. 87 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:50,800 Please do. 88 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,200 Which of your lovers do you propose to make an honest man? 89 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:59,300 Hold your tongue and do as you're told! 90 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:05,000 - I won't. - You will marry the Princess Anhalt-Zerbst! 91 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:09,000 - I'm off! - You'll stay where you are! 92 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:11,800 I won't marry her, and you can do whatever you like about it! 93 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,800 - Peter! Peter! - Your heart. Your Majesty! 94 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,600 Quick, the doctor! Bring some vinegar. 95 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:44,400 - What is it? - I think I'd better inquire, madam. 96 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:46,200 - What happened? - The empress fainted. 97 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:48,200 - The grand duke doesn't want to marry the girl. - A family scandal. 98 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:50,200 He doesn't want her. 99 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:58,000 Her Majesty has fainted, and His Highness has retired to his apartment. 100 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:00,600 I'll, uh... I'll try to find out what has happened. 101 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:02,800 Excuse me. 102 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:06,400 It's all over. We can pack our bags. 103 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:10,200 - Why? - The grand duke doesn't want you. 104 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:12,600 - Why? - I don't know. 105 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:15,000 Perhaps you're not good-looking enough. 106 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,600 But, Mother, he's not even seen me. 107 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,400 Bestujhev! 108 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:25,400 Go to the grand duke... 109 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,600 and tell him he either marries the Princess Anhalt-Zerbst at once... 110 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:30,800 or he thinks it over in a fortress. 111 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,000 In six months time I will ask him again. 112 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:36,400 I'll see the empress. This marriage is her idea. 113 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:38,800 - She must bring this young man to reason. - Oh, no, Mother. 114 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,200 You won't do that. You can't force him to marry me. 115 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:45,800 Oh, no. Please, let's go home. Let's go home immediately, I beg of you. 116 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:50,000 - I'll see the empress. - Mother. Mother, please! 117 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:52,000 I won't stay, Mother. 118 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:12,200 Officer! Officer! Please show me the way out. 119 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:14,800 - Out where? - Out! Out of the palace. 120 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:19,000 Out of the town. Out of the whole barbarian country. 121 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:21,600 - Why? What's happened? - He insulted me! 122 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:23,600 - Who? - The Grand Duke Peter. 123 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:25,800 - Oh, that fellow. - You know him? 124 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,400 - Oh, yes, I know him. - Oh, then perhaps you know why he refuses to marry me? 125 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,200 Why he refuses even to see me? 126 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:36,200 Well... 127 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:39,800 Well, perhaps they suggested some other German princesses to him. 128 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,000 Maybe... Maybe he prefers one of them. 129 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,200 - Which one? - Well, there's the Mecklenburg princess. 130 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:47,400 - Oh, that's impossible. - Why? 131 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:51,000 Because she has a cavalry mustache and rabbit's teeth. 132 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:54,200 Well, then there's the, uh... there's the Oldenburg princess. 133 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:58,200 Which one? Which one? There are four! Four old maids! 134 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:00,400 I know them all, and I tell you... 135 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,600 I am far the best and far the prettiest too. 136 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:06,600 And the most ambitious as well. 137 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:08,800 So you want to be empress. 138 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,400 - So you want to govern Russia? - Nonsense! 139 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:14,200 I don't care about becoming an empress. 140 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,400 I don't care about governing Russia. 141 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,200 I only care for the grand duke. 142 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:26,800 Why should you care about the grand duke? You don't even know him. 143 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:31,600 Why? I've been told about him ever since I was born. 144 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:36,600 Since I was 10, I've always been told I was to be his wife. 145 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:41,200 I've thought about him. I've dreamed about him. 146 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:46,800 Now I love him, and now he refuses me. 147 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,200 If all you've lost is the grand duke... 148 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:52,800 I should call it a lucky escape. 149 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,800 - Are you his friend? - I? 150 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,800 - His worst enemy. - What have you got against him? 151 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:03,400 Everything. He's a bad friend, a dangerous enemy. 152 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:07,800 He's cruel, suspicious, disloyal, vain. 153 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,000 He mistrusts everyone... 154 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:13,000 including himself. 155 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:15,400 In a word, the man's not a gentleman. 156 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:20,800 How dare you say such a thing about His Highness. 157 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,200 I think you forget who I am. 158 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,200 I am the princess of Anhalt-Zerbst. 159 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,000 Oh, Your Highness. 160 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,800 Kindly show me the way out immediately. 161 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:47,200 Oh, but didn't I come from here? 162 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:49,600 This is quite right, Your Highness. 163 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:53,200 Nothing but stairs and corridors and more stairs. 164 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:10,400 Oh, but... 165 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:12,600 are you sure that's the way out? 166 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:16,200 Oh, yes, Your Highness. It's the best way out for both of us. 167 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,600 Oh, don't cry. We'll find her some husband or other. 168 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:32,600 What's the meaning of this? 169 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:37,600 Aunt Elisabeth, what was the date you fixed for our wedding? 170 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,600 Oh, Peter! 171 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:12,400 This is the happiest day of my life, and you bring me these rags! 172 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:17,200 Oh! French genius! 173 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,200 Paris makes me mad! 174 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:22,000 They've become idiots in these last few years. 175 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:25,600 - How many dresses have I got? - 5,000, Your Majesty. 176 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:27,800 All of them magnificent. 177 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:33,200 - Magnificent? - What more can Paris do? 178 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:35,600 Invent a dress... 179 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:39,200 that makes a woman look 20 years younger. 180 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,200 Don't look at me with that sour face, Bestujhev! 181 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,200 But why don't you say something gay? 182 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:53,600 Whatever I say in these last few weeks seems to annoy Your Majesty. 183 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:58,800 Oh? Go to the church and wait for me, Bestujhev. 184 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:07,200 Insupportable. 185 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:11,600 I'll send him to Siberia. 186 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,600 Shuvalov. 187 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:19,200 How is that, Shuvalov? 188 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:21,800 Your Majesty looks like the bride. 189 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:26,400 No, Shuvalov. 190 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:32,200 But I feel like the bride. 191 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:38,800 Who said this frock was bad? 192 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,800 Oh, it's charming, charming, madame. 193 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,000 I think this needs to be a little shorter. 194 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:48,400 Yes, Your Majesty. A bit longer on the side there. 195 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:51,800 How do I look? 196 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,000 - Perfection, Your Highness. - Good. 197 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:56,200 Congratulations to both of you. 198 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:58,200 Comment? Both? 199 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:00,400 Hmm. Yourself and the princess. 200 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:04,000 She hooked me and landed me, and you're dishing me up with all the trimmings. 201 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:07,600 If I may say so, Your Highness has found a very clever wife. 202 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,400 Possibly. She caught me quite by accident. 203 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,400 As a matter of fact, she didn't know me from Adam. 204 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:17,600 - Perhaps she had a whisper from Eve? - Meaning what? 205 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,600 Oh, as Your Highness knows, women have a je ne sais quoi... 206 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:23,400 an instinct. 207 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:26,200 No. 208 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,200 No. 209 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:34,200 Did she though? 210 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:38,600 - Did she know all the time? - Oh, mon Dieu, Your Highness! 211 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:41,950 - Such an idea never entered my head. - No. But it entered hers! 212 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:45,800 What was it she said? 213 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:51,200 "I... I don't care about governing Russia. 214 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:53,600 All I care about is the grand duke." 215 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:58,800 Dirty little cheat. 216 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,200 - And you think that's clever, do you? - No, no, no. 217 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,700 Yes, you do! You just said so! I'll show you if it's clever or not. 218 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,400 I'll teach her to trap me. 219 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:21,000 - What will the grand duke wear? - The uniform of his regiment. 220 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:24,400 Oh, he'll look wonderful. 221 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:27,000 So strong and slender. 222 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,800 I will look so little at his side. 223 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,600 Oh, can't you do something to make me look a little taller? 224 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,800 - Perhaps this will help. - Oh, yes, the shoes. 225 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:41,400 Of course you can't change my face. 226 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,400 No dignity. 227 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,000 Well met. 228 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:58,400 - I've just been thinking about you. - You flatter me. 229 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:00,400 What are you doing here? 230 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:02,800 I just wanted to see you happily married. 231 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:06,800 - I hear she's very clever. - Oh, yes, very clever. 232 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:12,200 - When can I see you alone? - What would you do if I said tonight? 233 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:14,600 I'd say 1 2:00 at the hunting lodge. 234 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,000 Tonight? 235 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,000 You wouldn't dare. 236 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:23,000 Her Highness, the Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst. 237 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:25,600 See you at 12:00. 238 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:30,400 Her Imperial Majesty, Elisabeth, Empress of all the Russias. 239 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:50,600 Do you take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife? 240 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:52,800 Yes, I do. 241 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:57,800 Do you take this man to be your lawful wedded husband? 242 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,000 Yes, I do. 243 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,600 Until death us do part. 244 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:05,800 Until death us do part. 245 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,000 Until death us do part. 246 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,400 Until death us do part. 247 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:28,200 Tell Sergi to have the sleigh in the courtyard in about... hmm... 20 minutes, will you? 248 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,000 - Tonight, Your Highness? - Tonight. 249 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:34,200 At what time may I expect Your Highness to return? 250 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,200 Hmm. 251 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,000 Tomorrow probably. I'm taking you with me. 252 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:41,450 But this is your wedding night, Your Highness. 253 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,400 For a Frenchman, you have some very old-fashioned ideas, Lecocq. 254 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,400 Were you ever married? 255 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:52,400 Not officially, Your Highness, but I have, uh... I have dabbled in it. 256 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,800 Dabbled in it. You order the sleigh. 257 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,400 I am sorry. Her Majesty cannot see you tonight. 258 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:16,200 She has affairs to talk over with her new aide-de-camp. 259 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,000 Shuvalov? 260 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,600 Shuvalov. 261 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,800 Heigh-ho. 262 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,800 - Shuvalov? - Shuvalov. 263 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,200 It's always a mistake for a woman... 264 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,600 to tell a man that she loves him. 265 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,000 That depends on the man. 266 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,600 Wouldn't any man take advantage of it? 267 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:01,600 I shouldn't. 268 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,000 Wouldn't you? 269 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,600 What is it, Katushienka? 270 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,800 - What's wrong with you tonight? - With me, nothing. 271 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,600 But Her Highness, she... she's crying her eyes out all alone. 272 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,200 Alone? Do you mean to say he's left her? 273 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,600 He hasn't been with her. 274 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:29,800 The hunting lodge, I think. 275 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:34,200 But she... she's crying her eyes out so that it hurts to listen. 276 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,000 The swine! 277 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,200 Brute! 278 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,400 Fool! Beast! 279 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:49,200 Catherine, my poor darling. What's happened? 280 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,600 What has he done to you? Where is he? 281 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:53,600 Oh, I've never heard of such a thing! 282 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:55,600 How dare he do a thing like that to me? 283 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,000 - To you? - I'm responsible for you. 284 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,800 I won't tolerate your being treated like this just because you're young and helpless. 285 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,000 But that's just the way men do treat women. 286 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,400 They're devils if they think they can get away with it! 287 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:10,400 But Peter can't, and so he'll find out if I have to drag him back by the scruff of his neck! 288 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,600 Oh, no, no, no, no, no. 289 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,200 There's only one way for a poor, defenseless woman to treat her husband... 290 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,800 and that's to get the upper hand of him in the first five minutes and to rule him. 291 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,200 I don't want to rule him. 292 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,600 And if he doesn't love me, we can live together as friends. 293 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,600 Friends? Never. 294 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,600 Without love, marriage is simply immoral. 295 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:35,000 The whole aim and sense of it is to have a man here, under your thumb. 296 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,000 Oh, Lord! If we could only live without men. 297 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,600 But we can't live without them, the rascals... 298 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,800 and how difficult it is to live with them. 299 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:49,400 Especially with yours. He's unstable, moody, dangerous and bad. 300 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:53,000 Well, it's easy to love the good ones. 301 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:55,000 Everybody loves them. 302 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:59,400 But one must love the others because they need our love. 303 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,800 Don't you see he needs it? 304 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,400 Oh! You love him. 305 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,600 Yes. I do. 306 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:15,200 That's entirely different. 307 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,600 It's a terribly difficult case. 308 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,600 Nobody can help you. Nobody can advise you. 309 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,600 Then you'll have to help yourself, my little Catherine. 310 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,000 Right turn! 311 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,000 Order arms! 312 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,200 Royal salute! 313 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,400 Present arms! 314 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,000 What's the show? 315 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,400 Anniversary of the Battle of Poltava. 316 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,600 Full dress parade of the officers for your wife's inspection. 317 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:18,600 Full dress parade of my wife's lovers... for my inspection! 318 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,600 That's what it was done for. 319 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,000 Aren't you proud of them, Colonel? 320 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,200 Perhaps, on the whole. 321 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,600 Not quite the stuff we were made of in my young day. 322 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,200 Oh, but you can't expect that. 323 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:42,000 Your record goes back to the Battle of Poltava... 324 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,000 where you were the first man through the Swedish line... 325 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,200 and got that... 326 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,600 and that... 327 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,800 and that. 328 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,600 - How do you know all this? - This is my regiment, Colonel. 329 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,200 Gentlemen... 330 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:07,400 I invite you to come in and drink the regimental toast with me. 331 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,200 Parade dismiss! 332 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,000 Thank you. 333 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,600 I'll put a stop to that little mountebank! 334 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,600 Gentlemen, the toast is... 335 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,800 to the most glorious regiment in the world. 336 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,400 Your regiment, my regiment... 337 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:51,800 the Ismailovsky regiment coupled with the name of Colonel Karnilov. 338 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,200 - Colonel Karnilov! - The regiment! 339 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:05,600 Now, gentlemen, whose turn is it to be my aide-de-camp this month? 340 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,800 - My turn. - Oh, now, no, no. 341 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:12,800 Not you, Narishkin. You are far too busy with your military pursuits. 342 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,800 - Pursuits, Your Highness? - Yes. 343 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,800 The pursuit of the girl in the flower shop, for instance. 344 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,200 Teaching her the use of arms, I suppose... 345 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,000 and practicing falling in. 346 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,200 Oh, Peter! What a charming surprise. 347 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,600 - Won't you join us? - I want to talk to you. 348 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:45,000 Very well. I shall be free about 4:00. 349 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:46,800 You're coming now. 350 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,000 Right. 351 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,600 When I've said good-bye to my guests. 352 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,600 Good-bye, gentlemen. I'm sorry to leave you. 353 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:57,800 Good-bye, Kossinsky. Good-bye, gentlemen. 354 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,600 Good-bye. 355 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:02,600 Good-bye, Narishkin. 356 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:10,200 Oh, Borodin! You are taking me to the opera tonight. Please don't forget. 357 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,400 Good-bye, gentlemen. 358 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,000 - You are hurting me! - Aren't you ashamed of yourself? 359 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,000 - Why? - Your behavior. It's a scandal! 360 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,000 I don't know what you are talking about. 361 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,400 - About your lovers. - Oh, my lovers! 362 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,200 Yes, your lovers. You must have had half a dozen in one regiment. 363 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,400 - Half a dozen? - Well, I dare say a dozen. 364 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,200 Oh, to be exact, 17. 365 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,400 - Seventeen? - Yes. 366 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,000 What's this? 367 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,800 You gave this woman a regiment. Do you know what she does with it? 368 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,800 She's just flung it in my face that she's had 1 7 lovers in two years! 369 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,800 - Seventy? - No, 17. 370 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,000 But I don't know what it's all about. 371 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,200 Haven't I complied with his wishes? 372 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:04,600 Haven't I lived for two years apart from him... 373 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,200 quietly, discreetly? 374 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:11,600 I don't know why he makes such a terrible fuss now. 375 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:13,800 There's a limit to shamelessness, even at this court! 376 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,600 I demand that you send her back where she came from. 377 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,600 - You demand? - Well, if you don't, I'll take the law into my own hands. 378 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,000 That will do, Peter. 379 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,000 Wait here for my decision. 380 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,000 Catherine. 381 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,400 How many did you say? 382 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:55,600 Seventeen. 383 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:57,800 Seventeen. 384 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,800 Are you sure? Not 18 or 19? 385 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,000 No. Seventeen. 386 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,600 Who was the first? 387 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,600 I can't remember now. 388 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:14,600 But you remember the last. 389 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,000 Yes. Narishkin. 390 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:21,800 No. I mean Alexei Borodin. 391 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:37,800 Come here. 392 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:44,800 Sit down. 393 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,400 Tell a man as many lies as you like... 394 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,800 but never try to lie to a woman in matters of love. 395 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:58,200 You haven't had one lover yet, Miss Catherine. 396 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,800 But you've got nothing to be ashamed of. The method was right. 397 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,200 Every beast of a man begins to want you... 398 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,800 when he thinks you belong to some other beast of a man. 399 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:15,800 But you've overdone it. It isn't easy for any man to overlook 1 7 lovers. 400 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,600 Well, my devourer of lovers. 401 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:24,000 And all that because you're still in love with that crazy husband of yours. 402 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,600 But why? 403 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,400 - Maybe you'll succeed. - I shall. 404 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,000 Didn't you see how furious he was? He's jealous. 405 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,400 That's good. 406 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,800 But it's not enough. 407 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,400 You can't live with 17 imaginary lovers. 408 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,200 What you need is one real one. 409 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,600 We'll soon settle this. Come. 410 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,400 Peter. 411 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,400 - You want to divorce your wife? - I do. 412 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,400 Right. And you want to divorce your husband? 413 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,400 - Yes, I do. - Right. 414 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:24,200 We'll choose another wife for you... the Mecklenburg girl or the Oldenburg woman. 415 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,800 - Right? - Right. 416 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:32,200 - And you will go back to your mother, right? - Right. 417 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,200 I'll settle the matter as soon as possible. In the meantime, no scandal. 418 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,200 You will both behave as if nothing had happened. 419 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,200 You'll hear my further decisions later. Thank you. 420 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:50,400 - Shall we go? - Right. 421 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,600 You know, I'm beginning to like you now that I don't have to. 422 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:09,800 I always felt you could be very charming if one weren't married to you. 423 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:11,800 - Good-bye. - Good-bye. 424 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:16,600 Oh, um, your rooms... Y-You find them nice and comfortable? 425 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,000 Yes, my rooms are charming. 426 00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:23,000 Good-bye. Have a good time. 427 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,800 - Good time? - Yes. 428 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,400 I saw your carriage waiting. 429 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:32,800 Who is the reason tonight? 430 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,600 Anna Talitzyn. 431 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,800 The most charming woman in Petersburg. 432 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,200 And you? 433 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,200 Opera with Borodin. 434 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,600 The most disgusting fellow in Petersburg. 435 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,800 Tastes differ. Good-bye. 436 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,200 Good-bye. Oh, wait! 437 00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,600 Uh, little Catherine. 438 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,800 Why not... 439 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,200 Why not dine with me? 440 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,600 Oh, what a gorgeous idea. 441 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,200 Lecocq! 442 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:17,200 Lecocq. Lecocq, s-send a message to the Princess Talitzyn. 443 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,400 Tell her I can't come along tonight because... because... 444 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:22,400 Well, you always know what to say. 445 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:26,600 Yes, and another message to Lieutenant Borodin with my deepest regrets. 446 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,000 Very well, Your Highness. 447 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,000 Dinner tonight will be served in the blue room. 448 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:41,200 - Blue room? - Next to Her Highness's bedroom. 449 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:45,200 Maitre Duval! The dinner tonight should be light. 450 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,400 Oh, bubbling, not... not a family affair... 451 00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:52,400 but sufficient for the first stages of a... 452 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,400 You know what I mean. 453 00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:58,800 And the wine, Tokay, of a vintage to make up a woman's mind. 454 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:00,800 - Pom! - Pom! Yes. 455 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,400 - Two footmen? - No, myself alone. 456 00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:08,400 There are circumstances that call for a... Frenchman. 457 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:16,200 No, quite seriously. You ought to marry that Mecklenburg girl. 458 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,400 She's really lovely! 459 00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:21,000 Honey-colored hair down to her knees... 460 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:25,200 and a skin like cream and roses. 461 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,600 I thought you told me she had a cavalry mustache. 462 00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:29,800 Oh, no. No! 463 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,800 Just a teeny, tiny little suspicion of a mustache. 464 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,800 Oh, charming! Men adore it, really! 465 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,200 Uh, by the way, who was the first? 466 00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,400 - First what? - First lover? 467 00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,000 - Mine? - Yes, yours. 468 00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:49,800 Narishkin. 469 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,800 - When was that? - Let me see. 470 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,800 It was, um, 10th of March. 471 00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:04,200 - Where? - In Peterhof, in spring. 472 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,600 The trees were all in bud. 473 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,000 You were in Moscow... 474 00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,600 with the Italian opera singer. 475 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:16,200 Narishkin taught me to ride. 476 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:20,400 That evening we sat for hours in front of the fire... 477 00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,200 reading Voltaire. 478 00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:27,600 - And then? - Well... 479 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,000 One gets tired of reading. 480 00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:34,200 And how long did that last? 481 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:38,400 Until May, when we went back to Moscow. 482 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,800 - And in Moscow you met the second. - Mm-hmm. 483 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,800 - Who was it? - Gagarin. 484 00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,800 - And how long did that last? - Hmm. 485 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,000 Until the court came back to Petersburg. 486 00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,200 Oh, that was the beginning of June. 487 00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,400 - Hmm. - Three weeks. 488 00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:03,800 Oh, but in Petersburg the funniest thing happened. 489 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,200 Do you remember the French ambassador's masked ball? 490 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:07,800 - No. - Oh, darling. 491 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,600 - When you were in Moscow with Natasha Ronsky. - Yes, I remember! 492 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:13,600 Well, there was a harlequin... 493 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,600 who made passionate love to me the whole evening... 494 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:21,800 and I was convinced that it was Alexei Borodin. 495 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,000 Go on. Go on, go on! 496 00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,800 Well, we escaped together and slipped into the palace. 497 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,600 And the next morning I discovered... 498 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:33,200 that it was Vladimir Pashkov. 499 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:38,000 And he was so terribly in love with me... 500 00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,600 that it took me a week before I could get rid of him... 501 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:45,000 and invite Alexei Borodin. 502 00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:47,200 You dare to tell me that! 503 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,400 Oh, you idiot! 504 00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:58,200 You idiot, idiot, idiot! 505 00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,400 - Why? - Because it's not true! 506 00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,000 - Not true? - Not a word. 507 00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,000 Didn't you have 17 lovers? 508 00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:09,400 - Not one, you idiot! - Well, why did you tell me you had? 509 00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:13,200 You idiot! 510 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:19,600 Why did you leave me that first night? 511 00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,400 Because I was an idiot. 512 00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,800 Why don't you go to the ball? 513 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,600 - No, I'd rather stay here. - I want to work. 514 00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,800 I don't want you to work. I want you to go to bed. 515 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,200 What about Russia, if I go to bed? 516 00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:07,400 Oh, why not leave that to your chancellors and ministers? 517 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:11,400 Oh, darling! 518 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,000 You should go to bed. 519 00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:17,000 Dr. Marsden said so. Oh, please. 520 00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:24,000 How is Her Majesty tonight? 521 00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,200 Worse? 522 00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:31,200 Worse than she has any idea of, so Dr. Marsden says. 523 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,400 Don't take it away. 524 00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:37,000 - Read it to me, Catherine. - Yes. I will. 525 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,000 What is it? 526 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,600 It's a report from the governor of Kiev. 527 00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,000 The peasants are in revolt. 528 00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,200 Bad crops. 529 00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,200 Famine. 530 00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:57,000 The governor asks for military reinforcements to suppress the rebellion. 531 00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,400 What do you think? Shall I send the military? 532 00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:03,400 No. 533 00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:06,400 Famine cannot be suppressed by bullets. 534 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:10,600 One should send flour and corn from other territories where the crops were good. 535 00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:14,400 So that's what you think about the peasants' revolt? 536 00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:19,800 Yes. When my peasants revolt, I should hang my governors. 537 00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:25,000 Good. Very good, little Catherine. 538 00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:31,600 Will Your Majesty appear at the ball, or shall we stop it? 539 00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:33,800 Her Majesty must go to bed. 540 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,000 - Where is the grand duke? - At the ball. 541 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,400 The ball must go on. 542 00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:47,200 Stay here, Catherine. Deal with these. 543 00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:50,400 - You think I can? - You can very well. 544 00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:59,000 Your Highness is looking very happy tonight. 545 00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:02,600 So I ought to be, with so many friends around me. 546 00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:05,000 All perfectly charming... 547 00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:09,800 and all perfectly new! 548 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:13,000 Your Highness can scarcely call me a new friend. 549 00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:16,400 I can scarcely call you a friend of any kind, my dear prince. 550 00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:21,000 Only last week you practically ignored my existence. 551 00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:23,200 Oh, no, Your Highness. 552 00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:29,200 Oh, yes. 553 00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:31,400 But last week... 554 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:37,800 Last week Her Imperial Majesty had not yet been taken seriously ill. 555 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,600 Ogarev! Is the grand duke still in the ballroom? 556 00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:49,600 I think His Highness has gone. 557 00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,400 Don't try to lie to me, idiot. Gone? 558 00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,000 Just when the weathercocks are beginning to gather around him? 559 00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:58,600 How many of them are licking his boots at this moment? Ten, 20, 50? 560 00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:01,000 There are a few gentlemen around His Highness. 561 00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:04,000 Hmm. He feels he's the czar already... 562 00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:06,000 and he thinks I'm already in the grave. 563 00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:10,000 The, uh, funeral cortege of my lamented aunt... 564 00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,400 will pass through every main street in Petersburg. 565 00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:17,200 We'll invite, uh... Oh, we'll invite everybody. 566 00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:19,800 I'll go and spoil his love scene. 567 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,800 But Your Majesty must give your heart a rest. 568 00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:26,000 I've never in my life given my heart a rest. 569 00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:32,800 And I'll wear the uniform of, um... 570 00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,000 Let's see. What uniform shall I wear? 571 00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:37,000 Her Majesty! 572 00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:51,000 No, no! Don't stop the dancing. Why all this ceremony? 573 00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:53,200 Go on. Go on. Play. 574 00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,200 How radiant Your Majesty is looking. 575 00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,200 Thank you. 576 00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:07,200 All right. Thank you. 577 00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,400 Well, Peter, how are you? 578 00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:18,600 - All right, thanks. - You look splendid. 579 00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:22,000 It's a wonderful thing to belong to a healthy family. 580 00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:25,200 My grandmother... your great-grandmother... 581 00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:27,200 lived to be 86. 582 00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:29,400 And there's no reason why we shouldn't do the same. 583 00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:32,800 - I'm sure you will. - It's a great blessing for Russia too. 584 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:37,000 Instead of waiting anxiously for his predecessor's death... 585 00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:41,800 the heir to the throne has time to gather... experience... and to learn... 586 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,600 - To learn patience. - Patience. 587 00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,600 Exactly. 588 00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,800 It's a wonderful virtue, Peter. 589 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:52,800 Shuvalov. 590 00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:54,800 I feel marvelous. 591 00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,000 I'm going to dance a minuet. 592 00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:10,800 To take her throat into my hand and close my fingers. 593 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,000 She's laughing at me. 594 00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:17,800 Peter, she can hardly stand. 595 00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:24,600 Ah, she only came here to make me ridiculous. 596 00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:28,000 - She's very, very ill. - She'll outlive me... and you. 597 00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:30,000 She'll live a hundred years. 598 00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:39,400 What's that? 599 00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:50,600 - Is it very bad, Grigory? - Very bad. 600 00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:52,800 Good. 601 00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:56,600 Guard, open that window. 602 00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:58,800 It's cold outside. Why? 603 00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:01,600 To clear the way for death. 604 00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:03,800 He needs an entrance here. 605 00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:05,800 Hi. Black one. 606 00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,200 Or white one. Whoever you are. 607 00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:11,200 This way. In here. Welcome. 608 00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:13,600 Your Highness. Peter! 609 00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:18,400 That's all right, Grigory. 610 00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:20,400 She'll die. 611 00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:23,400 - Catherine. - Yes. 612 00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:25,600 Come here. 613 00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:28,600 - Catherine. - Yes, darling. 614 00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:31,000 Darling. 615 00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:33,800 Where is that lunatic? 616 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:35,800 Peter has just been here. 617 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,200 He's very anxious for your recovery. 618 00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:40,800 He's very anxious that I should die. 619 00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,200 No. 620 00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:45,600 I am dying, Catherine... 621 00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:50,400 and I leave Russia, and I leave you... 622 00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:52,400 in the care of a madman. 623 00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:55,800 Oh, no, no. He's not a madman. 624 00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,800 You should rule Russia. 625 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:02,800 Women can rule and men can't. 626 00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:07,200 Is it a sin that I didn't have him killed? 627 00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:09,400 - No. No, no, no. Please don't. - He will ruin Russia. 628 00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:11,400 - No. - He will break you. 629 00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:14,800 No. Please don't. Please. I beg of you. 630 00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:20,400 You still love him? 631 00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:23,800 Oh. 632 00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:28,400 How can a woman fight as long as she's in love? 633 00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:33,600 And you must fight. 634 00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:37,200 You or he. 635 00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:39,400 Kill or be killed. 636 00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:41,400 No, no, no. 637 00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:44,000 He'll be good and wise. 638 00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:46,600 Lecocq! Lecocq! 639 00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,400 Monsieur Lecocq. 640 00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:55,200 The inscrutable will of providence is about to deprive us of the empress of Russia... 641 00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:57,400 my beloved aunt. 642 00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:02,000 My most urgent need, therefore, Monsieur Lecocq... 643 00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:04,000 is a man whose character is a little below... 644 00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:06,800 and whose intelligence is far below the average. 645 00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,400 A chancellor for the empire? 646 00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:14,800 A bull's-eye, Monsieur Lecocq. 647 00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:17,600 He's a madman. 648 00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:21,200 I wish you didn't love him. 649 00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:26,800 Is it a sin to wish you didn't love him? 650 00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:33,000 Or is it a sin I haven't blotted him out... 651 00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:37,800 and left you... 652 00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:40,400 to care for Russia? 653 00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:43,600 What is a sin? 654 00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:48,000 Will God forgive my sins? 655 00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:55,000 Will God forgive my sins, little Catherine? 656 00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:57,000 Yes, he will, darling. 657 00:51:57,200 --> 00:51:59,600 That is why he's God. 658 00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:04,200 He created us and gave us our frailties... 659 00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:07,200 and our sinful thoughts... 660 00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:10,400 but he is our Father in heaven... 661 00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:13,400 and we are his children. 662 00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:18,800 And like a good father, he forgives us everything... 663 00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:22,800 our sins and our happiness. 664 00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:14,800 As my chancellor, Vorontzov... 665 00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:19,400 you will immediately prepare several decrees for the day of... of my coronation. 666 00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:26,200 - What is it? - Her Majesty may recover. 667 00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:30,400 That's right. 668 00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:33,400 She may. 669 00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:48,000 The ship is sinking all right. 670 00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:50,000 Trust the rats. 671 00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:52,200 She'll die. 672 00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:54,200 New coins, Vorontzov. 673 00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:57,800 I don't like my face very much, but I don't want to look at hers anymore. 674 00:53:58,000 --> 00:53:59,800 New uniforms for the army. 675 00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:04,100 Everyone back from Siberia whom she expelled, and everyone to go who had her favor. 676 00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:01,200 Orlov. 677 00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:03,200 Your Majesty. 678 00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:05,400 Waiting for me? 679 00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:08,800 Thank you. 680 00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:16,200 Thank you very much. 681 00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:20,000 But I don't need anything... 682 00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:22,000 and I want to be alone. 683 00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:26,800 I know. Still I beg to ask of Your Majesty to go and see the emperor. 684 00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:28,800 Oh, no. 685 00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,000 No. 686 00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:33,600 I can't see anybody now. 687 00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:36,600 I just want to be alone. 688 00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:40,400 His Majesty has just ordered the preparation of several new decrees. 689 00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:42,600 Yes, I know. 690 00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:45,600 He'll shock public opinion... 691 00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:50,800 but I don't want to interfere. 692 00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:53,000 Not now, Orlov. 693 00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:57,000 He's so suspicious. Not yet. 694 00:55:57,200 --> 00:56:00,200 Entirely innocent people are to be exiled to Siberia... 695 00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:02,600 only because they were in favor with the empress. 696 00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:07,000 Shuvalov, Folkonski, the whole family Bestujhev... 697 00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:10,400 Lonisky, father and son, Kurakin, wife and daughters and grandsons - 698 00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:13,000 Oh, stop, stop! 699 00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:28,400 Let's go. 700 00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:35,800 And we've had quite enough of women. 701 00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:39,250 There'll be no more petticoats to rule Russia. 702 00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:45,200 And there'll be a law... a law excluding all women from succession to the throne. 703 00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:57,600 Well, what do you want? 704 00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:00,000 Go on. Get out of here! 705 00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:02,000 We're busy doing men's work. 706 00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:05,600 And we don't want any more interference from women. Go on back to the empress. 707 00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:08,400 She can have another day or two to put ideas into your head. 708 00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:10,400 And then I shall come... 709 00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:12,800 and you'll go to the kitchen where you belong. 710 00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:14,800 Now go on. Get out! 711 00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:31,800 I came to tell you that the empress is dead. 712 00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:39,400 She's dead? 713 00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:42,400 Finished? Finished? 714 00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:45,200 Finished, finished, finished, finished! 715 00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:48,000 Finished! 716 00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:05,600 Long live the emperor. 717 00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:17,400 Look, little Catherine. Look. See what I've done. 718 00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:20,400 Look. New coins. New uniforms for the army. 719 00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:24,800 All these people to come back from Siberia. All these people to go to Siberia. 720 00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:29,200 And then look here. Five new regiments to be formed on the western frontier. 721 00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:31,800 You are sending these people to Siberia? 722 00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:34,000 Yes. 723 00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:38,800 - All of them. - Why not have them executed? 724 00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,600 Why? They-They-They've committed no crime. 725 00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:44,800 Then why send them to Siberia? 726 00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:47,000 Well, because... 727 00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:51,600 because... 728 00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:53,600 because I'm the czar. 729 00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:57,800 Oh. I see. That's a very good reason. 730 00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:01,800 And of course you want to please the crowd in your anteroom. 731 00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:06,150 - You think that'll please them? - Oh, they'll be delighted. 732 00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:14,600 We won't please the rabble. 733 00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:18,000 There was something. 734 00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:20,400 Something I-I-I wanted to... 735 00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:22,800 Of course. The war. 736 00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:26,000 Grigory, army council for next Wednesday. 737 00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:30,800 Here's the first army with the Austrians under General Daun. 738 00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:35,400 It's really a demonstration of force to pin down the main Prussian forces at this spot. 739 00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:39,200 Meanwhile General Rumiantzov strikes for Berlin. 740 00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:43,800 Is that your plan, Rumiantzov? 741 00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:46,600 Does it meet with your approval, Your Majesty? 742 00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:50,800 It might. 743 00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:54,800 It might meet with my approval, Rumiantzov... 744 01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:02,400 but what about Ivan Ivanovitch? 745 01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:05,600 - Who? - Ivan Ivanovitch. 746 01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:08,600 Who is Ivan Ivanovitch, Your Majesty? 747 01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:16,200 There you are, gentlemen. Who is Ivan Ivanovitch? 748 01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:18,800 How can we expect to know what Ivan Ivanovitch thinks... 749 01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:21,800 if we don't even know who he is? 750 01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:25,000 You, Rumiantzov, will be a field marshal. 751 01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:27,000 So will you, Tchernikoff. 752 01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:30,400 And Buterlin a count. And Panin a governor. 753 01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:35,200 But... But what will happen to Ivan Ivanovitch? 754 01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:41,400 And since we don't know what Ivan Ivanovitch thinks... 755 01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:44,000 I suppose I shall have to... 756 01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:47,800 find Ivan Ivanovitch. 757 01:00:58,600 --> 01:01:02,800 - Who is Ivan Ivanovitch? - What does he mean by Ivan Ivanovitch? 758 01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:09,400 Sorry, gentlemen. I thought... 759 01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:12,600 - Where is the emperor? - His Majesty left a moment ago. 760 01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:19,600 Has something happened? 761 01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:30,200 - Anything wrong? - Nothing in particular. 762 01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:33,800 What was it? 763 01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:37,800 His Majesty began to talk about the opinions of a certain Ivan Ivanovitch. 764 01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:42,000 And when I asked who the man was, he answered that that was the question... 765 01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:44,000 who was Ivan Ivanovitch? 766 01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:52,600 But don't you understand? 767 01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:56,200 That is Ivan Ivanovitch. 768 01:01:56,400 --> 01:01:58,800 That is Ivan Ivanovitch. 769 01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:01,800 Ivan Ivanovitch is Russia. 770 01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:03,800 The common soldier. 771 01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:07,400 Millions and millions of Russian peasants. 772 01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:11,000 Ivan Ivanovitch... 773 01:02:11,200 --> 01:02:13,000 wants to till his soil... 774 01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:15,000 fill his stomach... 775 01:02:15,200 --> 01:02:17,400 embrace his wife... 776 01:02:17,600 --> 01:02:21,800 and Johann Muller in Pomerania wants exactly the same. 777 01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:25,200 But they'll kill each other... and rot... 778 01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:28,000 In the brown Pomeranian soil... 779 01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:32,200 while we play at politics and statesmanship and glory. 780 01:02:33,600 --> 01:02:37,200 Oh, it's easy to understand, if one loves Russia. 781 01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:40,400 We all love Russia, and we understand you. 782 01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:44,800 Rumiantzov, why can't you understand him? 783 01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:53,800 Ah, here you are, Ivan Ivanovitch. 784 01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:58,400 Tell me, what do you think of their ingenious plan for the war? 785 01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:01,400 Imperial Majesty, my name is not Ivan Ivanovitch. 786 01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:05,200 You're cattle for slaughter, Ivan Ivanovitch. 787 01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:08,400 Imperial Majesty, my name is not Ivan Ivanovitch. 788 01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:17,200 My dog has more of a brain and more of an immortal soul than you, Ivan Ivanovitch. 789 01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:20,400 Imperial Majesty, my name is Ivan Nikolaievitch. 790 01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:30,000 No, gentlemen. 791 01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:35,000 Under the rule of the late empress, Russia gained strength. 792 01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:38,600 After her, Russia needs a ruler... a man. 793 01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:41,600 And the emperor will be a great ruler... 794 01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:45,600 if you all serve him loyally. 795 01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:48,200 Russia gives him love and confidence. 796 01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:50,400 It is you whom Russia loves. 797 01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:53,200 You understand Russia, and Russia understands you. 798 01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:56,600 Every soldier in the army is ready to die if you call on him. 799 01:03:56,800 --> 01:04:00,400 Everyone thinks you could lead Russia wherever you like. 800 01:04:00,600 --> 01:04:02,400 Catherine. 801 01:04:02,600 --> 01:04:05,600 Oh, Peter. Forgive my intruding. I just came... 802 01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:08,600 To talk over your future with these loyal gentlemen. 803 01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:11,000 Oh, no. I came because I wanted... 804 01:04:11,200 --> 01:04:13,000 Get out of here. 805 01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:16,600 Get to the kitchen, to the nursery. 806 01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:19,200 - Get out! No. Stay here... - Peter! 807 01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:21,200 - With these loyal leaders of the army... - Peter. 808 01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:24,200 And give your orders. Get into my chair. 809 01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:27,000 You're already in my shoes. 810 01:04:27,200 --> 01:04:29,000 Captain Orlov... 811 01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:31,200 carry on with the council. 812 01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:33,600 And let me know what the lady has decided. 813 01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:45,400 Oh, Your Majesty. 814 01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:47,600 Well? 815 01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:51,600 I was waiting for dear Catherine. 816 01:05:09,600 --> 01:05:13,200 Every soul in Russia pleads with you, begs you, urges you. 817 01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:15,800 - And one day your soul will respond to it. - Never, never, never. 818 01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:18,600 Waiting for that day, hundreds of us stake our heads day after day... 819 01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:22,400 to win over officer after officer, man after man, with the words "Catherine and Russia." 820 01:05:22,600 --> 01:05:25,000 What do you want to make me? A traitor to my husband? 821 01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:26,800 The empress of Russia. 822 01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:30,800 The empress of Russia? 823 01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:36,200 The empress of Russia. 824 01:05:39,200 --> 01:05:42,400 No. No, Orlov. 825 01:05:42,600 --> 01:05:44,400 I love the emperor... 826 01:05:44,600 --> 01:05:47,200 and I don't want to be anything but his wife. 827 01:05:53,600 --> 01:05:56,600 Your Majesty, I deeply regret that... 828 01:05:56,800 --> 01:05:58,800 What is it, Goudovitch? 829 01:05:59,800 --> 01:06:02,800 His Majesty's order is -is - 830 01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:04,800 What is His Majesty's order? 831 01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:08,200 That for the future Your Majesty will occupy... 832 01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:11,000 the French apartment in the right wing. 833 01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:19,200 Do you mean... 834 01:06:20,200 --> 01:06:22,800 I am not to live here any longer? 835 01:06:25,000 --> 01:06:27,600 His Majesty's orders. 836 01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:30,800 - I want to see His Majesty. - Oh, His Majesty's orders... 837 01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:33,200 But all my things are in there. 838 01:06:35,600 --> 01:06:39,600 Mayn't I fetch a few books and little things for myself? 839 01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:41,600 His Majesty has commanded... 840 01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:44,600 that nothing shall be touched until further orders. 841 01:06:46,800 --> 01:06:48,800 I see. 842 01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:56,000 It was, um... 843 01:06:57,200 --> 01:06:59,400 the French apartment, wasn't it? 844 01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:03,000 Thank you, Goudovitch. 845 01:07:22,400 --> 01:07:26,000 Her Majesty deeply regrets she cannot come tonight. 846 01:07:27,400 --> 01:07:29,400 How very unfortunate. 847 01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:33,800 You will please go and tell Her Majesty... 848 01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:36,750 that her presence here is indispensable to my happiness. 849 01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:41,200 And if you come back without her, I'll send you on another errand. 850 01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:43,400 You quite understand? 851 01:07:49,800 --> 01:07:52,800 To you, Sir Charles, as ambassador of England... 852 01:07:53,000 --> 01:07:55,200 and to you, Vicomte, as ambassador of France... 853 01:07:55,400 --> 01:07:58,600 I tender my sincere apologies for Her Majesty not being here to receive you. 854 01:07:58,800 --> 01:08:02,400 - Some slight indisposition perhaps. - Or a refractory frock. 855 01:08:02,600 --> 01:08:04,800 After all, Her Majesty is a woman. 856 01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:07,000 You're quite right, Vicomte. 857 01:08:07,200 --> 01:08:09,400 That's a woman all over... 858 01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:13,600 too ill to come, but not too ill to dress if she has to come. 859 01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:17,000 - Your Majesty. - Well? 860 01:08:17,200 --> 01:08:19,200 Forgive me, but I'm afraid you must come. 861 01:08:19,400 --> 01:08:21,000 I won't. 862 01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:24,200 But you... you should have seen him. 863 01:08:24,400 --> 01:08:28,200 I've told you I'm not going to be humiliated. 864 01:08:28,400 --> 01:08:30,400 Is that clear enough? 865 01:08:30,600 --> 01:08:33,200 I understand, Your Majesty. 866 01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:36,600 And I know you're right. Only... 867 01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:38,600 Only what? 868 01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:41,800 It means... 869 01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:45,600 Siberia for me. 870 01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:52,800 Did he say so? 871 01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:56,200 Yes, Your Majesty, if I go back without you. 872 01:09:04,400 --> 01:09:06,400 I'm coming. 873 01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:30,800 Don't get up, gentlemen. 874 01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:33,400 Please, keep your seats. 875 01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:55,000 Don't look so unhappy, Goudovitch. 876 01:09:57,800 --> 01:10:00,200 A woman can sit at the end of the table... 877 01:10:00,400 --> 01:10:02,400 and still be the head of it. 878 01:10:02,600 --> 01:10:05,800 And another can sit at the head of a table... 879 01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:08,800 and be the last of all women. 880 01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:11,000 Did you hear what she said? 881 01:10:18,600 --> 01:10:20,600 Goudovitch. 882 01:10:22,200 --> 01:10:25,600 Why hasn't Countess Vorontzova got the Order of St. Catherine? 883 01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:28,000 The Order of St. Catherine is given only to... 884 01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:30,800 members of the imperial family, Your Majesty. 885 01:10:32,400 --> 01:10:35,600 She'll be a member of the imperial family very soon. 886 01:10:35,800 --> 01:10:37,800 Won't you, my darling? 887 01:10:39,800 --> 01:10:41,800 Get the order and the star for Countess Vorontzova. 888 01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:44,400 I will convey Your Majesty's command... 889 01:10:44,600 --> 01:10:47,000 tomorrow to the Office of the Order. 890 01:10:51,400 --> 01:10:53,200 You see, Sir Charles? 891 01:10:53,400 --> 01:10:55,400 Russia. 892 01:10:55,600 --> 01:10:57,900 Would such sluggishness be possible in England? 893 01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:14,000 Am I wrong... 894 01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:16,400 or is that the order of St. Catherine? 895 01:11:26,400 --> 01:11:28,200 Her Majesty's order? 896 01:11:28,400 --> 01:11:31,000 Her Majesty's order. Bring it to me. 897 01:11:49,200 --> 01:11:51,200 I'm waiting, Goudovitch. 898 01:12:09,000 --> 01:12:11,200 Quick, Orlov. 899 01:12:11,400 --> 01:12:13,800 Say something to make me laugh. 900 01:12:14,800 --> 01:12:18,000 I'll tell you the funniest story you've ever heard. 901 01:12:19,800 --> 01:12:22,200 Captain Prassek has been arrested. 902 01:12:22,400 --> 01:12:25,200 If we lose one more day, we lose our heads. 903 01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:32,000 There we are. 904 01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:38,000 Hmm. Now, gentlemen. 905 01:12:38,200 --> 01:12:40,400 Let us drink to the first lady of the empire. 906 01:12:45,600 --> 01:12:49,800 I ask Your Majesty's permission to retire. I don't feel very well. 907 01:12:56,000 --> 01:12:57,800 You're not feeling well either, Vicomte? 908 01:12:58,000 --> 01:13:01,600 I do not feel very well either, Your Majesty. 909 01:13:05,200 --> 01:13:07,200 Anyone else not feeling well? 910 01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:13,800 Narishkin. 911 01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:16,000 If you happen to have been plotting against the czar... 912 01:13:16,200 --> 01:13:18,200 perhaps you have had an uneasy feeling around the neck... 913 01:13:18,400 --> 01:13:21,000 that stops you from enjoying your food. 914 01:13:21,200 --> 01:13:23,400 Perhaps you'd like to retire too. 915 01:13:24,600 --> 01:13:27,800 Borodin! A lump in the throat... 916 01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:30,600 a pressure around the neck. 917 01:13:30,800 --> 01:13:32,600 You may go! 918 01:13:32,800 --> 01:13:36,800 And every traitor and conspirator at this table can go! 919 01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:39,200 All of you clear out! 920 01:14:10,400 --> 01:14:12,600 Only the two of us, little Catherine. 921 01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:18,600 Just an intimate little dinner. 922 01:14:18,800 --> 01:14:21,600 Just like old times, huh? 923 01:14:24,800 --> 01:14:26,800 Was it six months ago? 924 01:14:29,800 --> 01:14:32,400 Or was it 600 years ago? 925 01:15:08,400 --> 01:15:10,800 Don't be afraid, little Catherine. 926 01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:13,800 You love me... 927 01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:16,200 don't you? 928 01:15:16,400 --> 01:15:18,200 You haven't plotted against me... 929 01:15:18,400 --> 01:15:20,400 have you? 930 01:15:22,000 --> 01:15:24,600 You wouldn't betray me... 931 01:15:24,800 --> 01:15:26,800 would you? 932 01:15:28,600 --> 01:15:30,800 Poor little Catherine... 933 01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:33,200 should be sent to a nunnery... 934 01:15:33,400 --> 01:15:37,000 and her pretty little head will be all shaved. 935 01:15:38,200 --> 01:15:41,200 And they'll put her in a small, stony cell. 936 01:15:41,400 --> 01:15:43,400 No laughter... 937 01:15:44,400 --> 01:15:46,400 no sunshine... 938 01:15:47,400 --> 01:15:49,200 no kisses. 939 01:15:50,400 --> 01:15:52,200 Just bread... 940 01:15:52,400 --> 01:15:54,600 and water... 941 01:15:54,800 --> 01:15:56,600 and prayers... 942 01:15:56,800 --> 01:15:58,600 or curses... 943 01:15:58,800 --> 01:16:02,000 for as long as she lives. 944 01:16:42,200 --> 01:16:44,000 The time has come for you to give the word. 945 01:16:44,200 --> 01:16:46,200 We can't wait another minute. 946 01:17:12,600 --> 01:17:15,000 Can a man... 947 01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:19,000 love a woman like me, Orlov? 948 01:17:19,200 --> 01:17:22,600 We can't wait another minute. We have to fight or die. 949 01:17:27,600 --> 01:17:32,200 Can a man love a woman like me, Orlov? 950 01:17:35,400 --> 01:17:38,800 From the first moment I saw you, I loved you. 951 01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:42,800 Didn't you know that? 952 01:17:45,200 --> 01:17:47,600 Thank you, Orlov. 953 01:17:53,200 --> 01:17:55,200 Now we have no time to lose. 954 01:17:56,400 --> 01:17:58,400 Tell me your plans. 955 01:18:06,400 --> 01:18:10,600 Here are the barracks of the Ismailovsky regiment... ours. 956 01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:13,800 There's the Holstein regiment. It has not yet been won over. 957 01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:16,000 Our first aim, therefore, should be to talk to them. 958 01:18:16,200 --> 01:18:18,200 We talk to nobody. 959 01:18:18,400 --> 01:18:22,400 If the Ismailovsky regiment is ours, we have a weapon in our hand. 960 01:18:22,600 --> 01:18:25,000 If the Holstein regiment refuses to come with us, we'll fight them. 961 01:18:25,200 --> 01:18:28,600 - Yes, Your Majesty. I'll go at once and report as soon as I can. - I'm coming with you. 962 01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:31,000 Yes, Your Majesty. 963 01:18:31,200 --> 01:18:34,400 - What's this cross? - There will be a group of absolutely faithful officers. 964 01:18:34,600 --> 01:18:37,000 They will cover your escape if we fail. 965 01:18:37,200 --> 01:18:39,200 Fail? 966 01:18:40,200 --> 01:18:42,200 Better not think of that. 967 01:18:42,400 --> 01:18:46,000 Better send these officers at once to reinforce the palace guard. 968 01:18:46,200 --> 01:18:48,000 Yes, Your Majesty. 969 01:18:48,200 --> 01:18:50,800 And it will be their duty to arrest the czar at dawn. 970 01:18:53,800 --> 01:18:55,600 To arrest the czar. 971 01:18:55,800 --> 01:18:57,800 Naturally. 972 01:19:00,400 --> 01:19:02,800 What will happen to him? 973 01:19:04,400 --> 01:19:06,800 What will happen to him? 974 01:19:08,800 --> 01:19:11,800 Not a hair of his head must be touched. 975 01:19:12,000 --> 01:19:14,000 He must be rendered harmless, Your Majesty. 976 01:19:14,200 --> 01:19:16,600 I know. 977 01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:19,600 He must be arrested... 978 01:19:19,800 --> 01:19:23,400 and taken to a safe place where he can be watched. 979 01:19:25,800 --> 01:19:28,600 Later we can send him to Sweden... 980 01:19:28,800 --> 01:19:31,400 Germany... wherever he wants to go. 981 01:19:31,600 --> 01:19:33,000 That is Your Majesty's wish? 982 01:19:33,200 --> 01:19:35,800 It is my command, Orlov. 983 01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:40,000 Perhaps I was wrong to give her one night more. 984 01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:45,200 I'll go and take the little neck... 985 01:19:45,400 --> 01:19:47,400 and then the lady won't be dangerous anymore. 986 01:19:47,600 --> 01:19:49,600 Peter. 987 01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:54,600 Peter, you're always thinking of her. 988 01:19:57,800 --> 01:20:01,600 What... What was it I... I wanted? 989 01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:07,800 To kill her. 990 01:20:09,600 --> 01:20:12,800 Captain Talitzyn, your orders are to arrest the empress at dawn... 991 01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:16,200 and send her under strong escort to the nunnery of St. Elisabeth. 992 01:20:17,200 --> 01:20:20,000 You're under arrest. 993 01:20:20,200 --> 01:20:22,200 Take him away. 994 01:20:26,600 --> 01:20:28,600 Bugler! 995 01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:52,800 Are you tired, madam? 996 01:20:53,000 --> 01:20:56,800 I used to march like this with my father... 997 01:20:57,000 --> 01:20:59,200 beneath the stars. 998 01:20:59,400 --> 01:21:03,000 He told me each one of us has a planet of his own. 999 01:21:04,200 --> 01:21:07,200 I wonder which is mine. 1000 01:21:07,400 --> 01:21:10,800 Five! Six! 1001 01:22:06,600 --> 01:22:08,800 Soldiers. 1002 01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:12,600 I am a woman like your mothers... 1003 01:22:12,800 --> 01:22:14,600 and your sisters. 1004 01:22:16,200 --> 01:22:18,800 And I know it is a bad wife... 1005 01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:23,000 who leaves her husband because he has been cruel. 1006 01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:28,000 But it is a good mother... 1007 01:22:28,200 --> 01:22:30,200 who will fight everyone... 1008 01:22:30,400 --> 01:22:32,400 to save her children. 1009 01:22:35,000 --> 01:22:37,600 You are my children. 1010 01:22:39,200 --> 01:22:44,400 I come to you as the mother of all Russia... 1011 01:22:44,600 --> 01:22:46,800 and I'll fight for you... 1012 01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:49,600 as you'll fight for me. 1013 01:22:49,800 --> 01:22:52,600 And I'll lead you... 1014 01:22:52,800 --> 01:22:56,000 to victory and peace. 1015 01:22:56,200 --> 01:22:58,000 Long live the empress! 1016 01:22:58,200 --> 01:23:00,400 Long live the empress! 1017 01:23:00,600 --> 01:23:03,200 Long live the empress! 1018 01:23:22,000 --> 01:23:23,800 Catherine. 1019 01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:30,800 Catherine! 1020 01:23:36,800 --> 01:23:38,800 Catherine! 1021 01:23:44,400 --> 01:23:46,400 Catherine! 1022 01:23:47,600 --> 01:23:49,200 Catherine! 1023 01:23:51,200 --> 01:23:53,200 Catherine! 1024 01:23:59,600 --> 01:24:01,400 You are my prisoner, sir. 1025 01:24:01,600 --> 01:24:04,400 Prisoner? Whose service are you in? 1026 01:24:04,600 --> 01:24:06,400 In the service of Her Majesty... 1027 01:24:06,600 --> 01:24:09,600 Catherine II, empress of Russia. 1028 01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:16,000 Peter! 1029 01:24:18,400 --> 01:24:20,800 Oh, what will become of me? 1030 01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:29,200 Have you never wished to have wings? 1031 01:24:33,600 --> 01:24:35,600 Death must be something like this: 1032 01:24:37,800 --> 01:24:39,600 Suddenly... 1033 01:24:39,800 --> 01:24:41,800 Suddenly you have wings. 1034 01:24:42,000 --> 01:24:46,000 Her Majesty's order is you leave the palace under escort... 1035 01:24:46,200 --> 01:24:48,200 for the manor house of Ropsha. 1036 01:24:55,600 --> 01:25:01,400 Her Imperial Majesty, Catherine, Empress of all the Russias. 1037 01:25:20,400 --> 01:25:22,400 Good morning, gentlemen. 1038 01:25:23,400 --> 01:25:25,400 Morning. 1039 01:25:33,600 --> 01:25:36,600 Well, here we are, my friends. 1040 01:25:39,400 --> 01:25:41,400 Oh, Fyodor. 1041 01:25:41,600 --> 01:25:44,000 Have the goodness to get into the carriage, sir. 1042 01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:49,800 And if I don't want to get into the carriage? What then? 1043 01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:52,600 Don't compel us to use force, sir. 1044 01:25:56,200 --> 01:25:58,200 But I do compel you to use force. 1045 01:25:58,400 --> 01:26:00,400 Go on. 1046 01:26:03,600 --> 01:26:05,600 Oh, don't be afraid, gentlemen. 1047 01:26:05,800 --> 01:26:07,800 The emperor is lenient. 1048 01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:12,000 And he's very tired... 1049 01:26:13,000 --> 01:26:15,200 and very glad to go on this journey. 1050 01:26:15,400 --> 01:26:17,400 The carriage, sir. 1051 01:26:19,200 --> 01:26:21,000 Oh, yes. The carriage. 1052 01:26:22,400 --> 01:26:24,800 You'll come with me, won't you, Fyodor? 1053 01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:27,200 You'll make sure that I reach the... 1054 01:26:27,400 --> 01:26:29,200 the end of the journey... 1055 01:26:29,400 --> 01:26:31,800 as quickly as possible... 1056 01:26:32,000 --> 01:26:34,600 because I am rather tired. 1057 01:26:47,200 --> 01:26:49,200 What's that noise? 1058 01:26:50,400 --> 01:26:53,100 There's a rumor spreading Your Majesty has been killed. 1059 01:26:54,800 --> 01:26:56,600 Open the windows. 1060 01:26:59,400 --> 01:27:02,800 Catherine! Catherine! Catherine! 1061 01:27:07,600 --> 01:27:09,600 I'll show myself to them. 1062 01:27:26,800 --> 01:27:28,800 Well done, little Catherine. 1063 01:27:29,800 --> 01:27:31,800 Good-bye. 1064 01:28:00,600 --> 01:28:02,400 He's dead. 1065 01:28:02,600 --> 01:28:04,600 Fyodor has killed him. 1066 01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:17,200 Somebody must tell the empress. 1067 01:28:17,400 --> 01:28:19,800 But who? 1068 01:28:20,000 --> 01:28:22,800 Grigory, you must tell her. 1069 01:28:32,400 --> 01:28:34,400 Oh. 1070 01:28:38,000 --> 01:28:41,000 This is the happiest day of my life. 1071 01:28:45,600 --> 01:28:49,400 And I always believed nobody cared for me. 1072 01:28:50,800 --> 01:28:53,600 And suddenly I am loved. 1073 01:28:55,200 --> 01:29:00,200 I am loved by so many! 1074 01:29:00,400 --> 01:29:02,200 Oh! 1075 01:29:02,400 --> 01:29:05,200 I must try hard not to cry. 1076 01:29:06,200 --> 01:29:09,000 We will work tomorrow, gentlemen. 1077 01:29:09,200 --> 01:29:12,200 Happiness has made me tired. 1078 01:29:12,400 --> 01:29:16,200 I need a little rest. Good-bye, good-bye, Talitzyn. 1079 01:29:16,400 --> 01:29:18,400 I know what I owe you. 1080 01:29:18,600 --> 01:29:20,400 Good-bye. 1081 01:29:20,600 --> 01:29:22,600 Bariatinsky. 1082 01:29:22,800 --> 01:29:25,800 I'll show you how grateful I can be. 1083 01:29:26,000 --> 01:29:28,400 Good-bye, dear. 1084 01:29:28,600 --> 01:29:30,600 Karnilov, dear. 1085 01:29:32,600 --> 01:29:35,400 One part of my life belongs to you. 1086 01:29:35,600 --> 01:29:37,600 I won't forget it. 1087 01:29:37,800 --> 01:29:40,200 Kiss me. 1088 01:29:50,800 --> 01:29:52,800 Oh, Grigory. 1089 01:29:57,600 --> 01:30:00,400 Oh, Grigory. 1090 01:30:06,200 --> 01:30:08,600 What has happened? 1091 01:30:12,600 --> 01:30:16,000 Jealous? So soon? 1092 01:30:18,800 --> 01:30:20,800 What is it? 1093 01:30:23,800 --> 01:30:26,600 Your Majesty, the czar... 1094 01:30:37,200 --> 01:30:39,200 No. 1095 01:30:40,600 --> 01:30:42,400 No. 1096 01:30:43,600 --> 01:30:45,600 That isn't true. 1097 01:30:48,200 --> 01:30:50,600 That isn't true. 1098 01:30:50,800 --> 01:30:52,800 Grigory. 1099 01:31:03,000 --> 01:31:05,000 Peter. 1100 01:31:08,000 --> 01:31:10,200 Peter. 1101 01:31:15,600 --> 01:31:17,600 Who was it? 1102 01:31:17,800 --> 01:31:20,800 I swear to you I knew nothing about it. 1103 01:31:22,400 --> 01:31:25,000 Who killed him? 1104 01:31:38,400 --> 01:31:40,400 Who was it? 1105 01:31:44,200 --> 01:31:46,200 Who killed him? 1106 01:31:49,600 --> 01:31:51,600 Who spoiled my victory? 1107 01:31:53,400 --> 01:31:55,600 Who made me a murderess? 1108 01:31:57,600 --> 01:32:02,000 I told you not to touch a hair of his head. 1109 01:32:03,600 --> 01:32:05,400 I ordered it! 1110 01:32:05,600 --> 01:32:07,600 I commanded it! 1111 01:32:07,800 --> 01:32:11,200 - Your Majesty... - I want to know who it was! 1112 01:32:13,200 --> 01:32:15,400 I'll punish all of you... 1113 01:32:15,600 --> 01:32:18,000 if you don't show me the one! 1114 01:32:19,000 --> 01:32:20,800 Get out! 1115 01:32:21,000 --> 01:32:23,200 Get out of here! 1116 01:32:23,400 --> 01:32:26,400 I don't want to see any of you again! 1117 01:32:37,600 --> 01:32:41,200 Oh, that poor... 1118 01:32:41,400 --> 01:32:46,600 unhappy, miserable child. 1119 01:32:48,000 --> 01:32:51,200 Everything has its price, Your Majesty. 1120 01:32:51,400 --> 01:32:54,000 And the crown has the highest price of all. 1121 01:32:54,200 --> 01:32:57,600 I didn't want it at that price. 1122 01:32:57,800 --> 01:33:01,400 Russia wanted you at any price. 1123 01:33:05,800 --> 01:33:09,000 He always called me... 1124 01:33:10,200 --> 01:33:12,200 little Catherine. 83605

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