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COSMOS STUDIO

TV CHANNEL RUSSIA

PRESENTS

A COSMOS STUDIO PRODUCTION

WRITTEN BY ARIF ALIEV

DIRECTED BY DMITRIY IOSIFOV

CAMERA DIRECTOR MAXIM SHINKORENKO

ART DIRECTOR SERGEY VOROBIEV

MAKEUP ARTIST - ARTEM DEMIDOV, COSTUME DESIGNER - SVETLANA MOSKVINA

MUSIC BY NIKOLAY ROSTOV CASTING DIRECTOR - VALERIA GANKINA

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF - SERGEY KOZIN POST-PRODUCTION BY NONNA ARISTARKHOVA

SOUND DIRECTORS VLADIMIR LITROVNIK, ANNA IVANTSOVA

PICTURE EDITORS OLGA GRINSHPUN, GLEB ROSS

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS LILIA CHEKSTER, SYUZANNA MUAZEN

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER ANASTASIA KORETSKAYA

LEAD PRODUCER DMITRIY GOLUBICHNY

PRODUCERS - ALEXANDER AKOPOV, ANTON ZLATOPOLSKY, NATALIA SHEIDOROVA

IN REMEMBRANCE OF EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ALEXEI KUBLITSKY

PAVEL PETROVICH - PAVEL TABAKOV NIKITA PANIN - SERGEY KOLTAKOV

YEMELIAN PUGACHEV - ARTHUR IVANOV PRINCESS TARAKANOVA - ANGELINA STRECHINA

STEPAN SHESHKOVSKY - MIKHAIL GOREVOY ALEXEI ORLOV - ARTEM ALEXEEV

ANDREY RAZUMOVSKY - ALEXANDER TKACHIOV NATALIA ALEXEIEVNA - ALINA TOMNIKOV

GRIGORY POTEMKIN - VLADIMIR YAGLICH GAVRIIL DERZHAVIN - DANILA DUNAYEV

EKATERINA NELIDOVA - DIANA MILYUTINA LEFEBVRE - IGOR GARBUZOV

KAZIMIERZ OGIŃSKI - ARTEM KRETOV MICHAŁ OGIŃSKI - DANIIL SLUTSKY

MARIA KAROLINA - OLGA MAKEEVA FERDINAND - SERGEY TESSLER

DENIS FONVIZIN - KUZMA SAPRYKIN ADAM OLSUFIEV - STANISLAV STRELKOV

EKATERINA THE GREAT MARINA ALEKSANDROVA

EKATERINA: PRETENDERS

- Almond milk. - Help yourself, please, Safak Pasha.

Thank you, maybe another time.

I won't take up your time, Your Highness,

what do you think about moving to Constantinople?

Sultan Abdul Hamid wants to see you in his palace.

They'll roll out the red carpet for you, as heiress to the Russian throne.

Convey my compliments to Sultan Abdul Hamid, but we're living modestly.

Changing location is rather expensive.

Boy, bring some more fruit.

- Make haste! - Yes, Your Highness.

Excuse me, the Italian servants are very slow.

You will want for nothing, as the Sultan's guest.

There's no doubt in my mind, but another thing worries me.

How can this bring me closer to the Russian throne?

Constantinople isn't closer to Petersburg than Naples.

Sultan Abdul Hamid will do everything to help you achieve your aim.

You have to learn to choose the right friends.

This time Michał coped with the role of a servant better than last time.

- Thank you, Michał. - Boy, bring fruit. Make haste!

Laugh, uncle Kazimierz. We had to pick fruit beforehand.

Nobody thought of it. I leaped from branch to branch like a monkey.

Mail from the past week, Your Highness.

The mail from Constantinople is a trap.

I'm sick and tired of this one.

That one doesn't have money.

He only talks the talk.

This one can be useful, we'll answer him.

- Is that's all? - Yes.

Are you waiting for a letter from someone else?

I'm not waiting, but I had feeling that he would write to me.

But two days have passed and there's nothing, only silence.

- Who are you talking about? - Count Orlov Chesmensky.

I asked you to steer clear from this man.

He's the most dangerous person for us in Naples.

Do you have to talk to me like I'm a little girl?

Do you forget with whom you are talking?

The Turks are dangerous. They'll allure me and won't let me go.

I'm a beautiful toy for Ferdinand

and a figure for exchange in the game with France.

The French are too far away. Do you believe them, pan Kazimierz?

They are the only ones to have helped us.

This help can come to the end at the whim of king.

We need an ally, who wants to change authority in Russia.

Don't look for him among the Orlov brothers.

Michał, do you consider me silly and reckless, too?

Your intelligence can be compared only to your beauty.

Thank you, my trusted friend.

The most trusted friend for you is the person,

who says the things you don't want to hear.

Michał.

My trusted knight, will you do me a favour?

Give this letter to Alexei Orlov with the Russian squadron.

But don't tell anybody, even pan Kazimierz.

It'll be our little secret.

THE BAY OF NAPLES AUGUST, 1774

The wound doesn't go very deep.

The skin is damaged, but it's not serious.

What is the reason of the illness?

He has a fever. I don't know why. We'll wait till tomorrow.

If nothing changes, then things will look blue.

Maybe it is the poison.

If you had the blade, by which he was wounded,

maybe we could tell.

Otherwise, we can only answer this question after we dissect the body.

- Get him ready for extreme unction. - Bite your tongue, father Makariy!

Alexei Grivoryevich will get back on his feet and be better than ever.

I hope to God. Hope in God's promises.

What will we do, if he doesn't get back up again?

Then our mission will fail.

As commander of the ship I have to take command of the squadron.

- I have to send a report to Petersburg. - We can do it tomorrow.

No later.

Doctor said that we have to wait, so please wait.

What are you going to do?

Wait for me. I'll return in an hour.

- Are you from the Russian squadron? - Yes. Who are you?

- Count Michał Ogiński. - Count Andrey Razumovsky.

I have a letter for the commander of Russian squadron, Count Orlov.

- Deliver to named recipient only. - He can't take it.

I'll hand it over to him.

Give me your word that he'll get the letter, unopened.

You have my word.

Thank you.

What's going on, my dear Michał? What happened?

I overheard the conversation of Russian sailors.

Count Orlov is wounded. He is on the ship at the point of death.

Nobody knows if he will survive until tomorrow.

- Wait. Where are you going. - Don't worry. I'll return soon.

Where is she going? What did you tell her?

- I can't tell you. - What does it mean?

It's our secret, I gave her my word.

Michał, my dear boy, what are you doing?

Enemies are everywhere. The Russians want her to die.

- Do you want her to die? - No.

Then what secrets can there be? Tell me where she's going.

Tell me.

I want to see the king and the queen.

I don't know how you do it in Russia, but in Naples we have rules of decorum.

You can't burst into the king's room anytime you want.

Can you imagine the reaction of our Empress, if Count Orlov dies in Naples?

Count Orlov had the misfortune to get into a tangle with a drunk pedestrian.

It could have happened anywhere.

Were they there at that time by chance?

Be careful, Count. Don't say things, you're not able to prove.

- Or maybe you have some evidence. - No, I dont have any proof.

But we do have 4 ships with 60 guns and half of them are aimed at the palace.

Just remember this, sir.

Good evening, maam.

Take me to signor Cagliostro. I have to speak to him.

Alas! But the great magician can't talk to you now.

- Why? - He has died.

How can it be possible? He performed not so long ago.

He brought a girl to life, but has died himself.

What do you want?

Everything in nature is in balance.

Somewhere something appears, somewhere else something disappears.

When the time comes, he'll rise again from the dead.

Stop telling fairy tales. I have a remedy to resurrect him.

The Count is resting there.

My dear, leave us.

- Do you recognize me? - I saw you in my dreams.

Come on, signor.

I lived in the travelling circus so I know some tricks of the trade.

But your focus with mind-reading trick impressed me.

If you really have some powers, please use them.

You are helping him in vain.

It won't bring happiness. Neither to you, nor to him.

I don't want to know my destiny. I just want you to save him.

I don't want to listen to these excuses. Let me pass!

I have to get on the board of your ship!

Why are you shouting? When His Excellency comes, you can talk to him.

I demand you immediately let me board the ship!

What's going on, gentlemen?

A subject of France is on board the ship "Isidor".

You have no right to constrain her.

What? It's a military squadron.

God forbid the French will appear there.

- Stop lying! - Who are you?

- Kazimierz Ogiński. - Ogiński? Former hetman?

- What are you doing here? - That's besides the point.

I left the ship an hour and a half ago. There weren't bystanders.

Old chaps! Did anyone board ship during my absence?

No, Your Excellency.

I can't let you get on the board. I don't have the authority to do it.

The person you're looking for is not on board a Russian ship. I assure you.

Let me pass.

- Push off? - Yes.

Wait a minute, signor.

- Get him away? - No.

Your commander is dying. I'm the only person who can help him.

- How did you find out he's wounded? - I had a vision.

I guess it was in the form of a beautiful girl.

This is my assistant - the alchemist Altotas.

- There is no time to lose! - You're welcome.

- We went there for no use. - You're right, Michał. I made a mistake.

The Russians laid our plans bare.

But if we had lost Elizaveta, then we would have nothing to lose.

I'm sorry, gentlemen. I can't stay in seclusion, I decided to go for a walk.

It won't happen again.

- How dare you? - Leave me alone.

Now the Count is appealing to the spirits of fire, earth, water and air.

He's appealing to the virtues Rouach and Hochmael.

He's addressing his powers to the healing of this man.

I won't make communion after this.

- What if it's a poison? - It won't make it any worse.

Jesus Christ.

Alexei, if you love, then rise. Rise for the person you love.

Where is the Emperor?

His Imperial Majesty with his young wife have gone for a walk.

A walk? He's come here to take a stroll?

Chumak, sit! And calm down. What happened?

An ambush.

The didn't even let us fight, they started shooting.

- Many of us died. - They're lucky.

The wounded will be picked and tortured before they tell everything.

We were defeated for a second time.

We have to lead the army to a peaceful place.

Where is the commander and order?

The Emperor came to promenade with a cossack's daughter.

What if he's not the Emperor, but the simple hetman? Petrusha?

If you say anything else about my daughter, I'll kill you.

What can you do, uncle? When did you fight the last time?

You became delicate, using Yemelian's food, the Emperor's father-in-law.

Why isn't she an Emperor's wife?

Ustinya the Great!

Stop! Stop, cossacks! Do you want us to kill ourselves?

I'll cut your tongue off later!

Sit! Count Panin, what do you think?

- You're the Emperor's counsellor. - What do I think about?

Should we lead the army to the peaceful place or stay here to the end?

It's better to drop back, but we'll do as the Emperor orders.

That's why we need the Emperor.

The great judgment day has come. The day of his enragement...

Has the cook died? Give me home brew.

- How long are you going to live with me? - Till the death.

When will you die?

I don't know, but I'll survive till the first snow.

- Will you give me a ring? - Yes. I'll call you my wife.

Everybody will call you Your Highness Ustinya I.

Do you agree?

You depraved me, I agree. Will you marry me?

I've already married the Empress Ekaterina the Great.

I didn't know she was a viper. She was as young as you are.

Yes, I won't be a tsaritsa for long, only till the first snow.

But while the sun is shining...

- Sovereign! - What do you want?

Urgent business, sovereign!

If it isn't urgent, I'll drown you in this river.

Everything is bad in the camp. The cossacks growl.

The platoon returned defeated, almost everybody died.

- They've started talking... - What?

What can they think of in such situations?

- Stop talking riddles. What's going on? - As if you don't know.

Or do you forget what your people did to you? Now it's the same.

You want to live like an Emperor, betrayl is a common thing.

Who was misled by the devil?

Fedul, Chumak and Tvorog. I just guess about the others.

They're my top people.

Those are the ones most likely to betray you.

Do you know that I survived fire and water with them,

that I fought beside them?

How strong we are together.

But who are you? Who are you?

Where did you come from? Dependent, count's foster-child! Get out!

Before I kill you.

What did he want?

- The dead body came to life. - Don't.

I guess you're not afraid of transcending the borders of other worlds.

I'm like Moses upon a mount Sinai, who didn't eat for 40 days.

Gain strength, Count. You have to work.

What is it?

A letter from Naples from a certain special lady.

I'm sorry it's been opened. You were at death's door, the outcome was unclear.

She's waiting for a meeting. There is an address.

We just have to go and get her. And then we'll be home.

She persuaded Cagliostro, I'm alive because of her.

Alexei Grigoryevich, leave these thoughts. I'm also glad you're alive.

I don't know if it's the skills of Cagliostro or the time.

But let me remind you what will happen if we don't take her to Petersburg.

My entire family will be deprived of noble titles.

Your brother is in the hands of the Empress.

- Why did she like you? - She considers me to be her ally.

Then continue this play, but be careful with the Polish. They can be a hindrance.

I salute you, Your Excellency!

I'm Captain Krylov, assistant of the governor.

Thanks for coming earlier than Panin.

Thank you for holding the fortress.

- How long did the siege last? - 4 months.

Pretty much. Now are you driving them out like rabbits?

Yes, Your Excellency, but they're very slippery and spry.

It doesn't matter. We're experienced hunters.

Find out everything about Pugachev. And bring me all the captives.

- See if they can be useful. - You're welcome.

Don't take him in.

Who are you talking about? I'm not expecting anyone. Is it the king again?

Count Orlov Chesmensky. I beg you! Don't take him in. He's your enemy.

Cut it and put in on order, open some champagne.

Hello, madam.

I'm glad to see you in a good health, Alexei Grigoryevich.

I'm glad to see you, too.

Please meet my companions. Michał Ogiński is a talented young boy.

One of his gifts is music.

Pan Kazimierz Ogiński is my trusted counsellor and defender.

He always protects me from dangers. He considers you one of these threats.

It's a lovely day. Don't you want to walk outside?

Don't do it.

Pan Kazimierz, I know everything you want to say.

I think Count Orlov knows what's waiting for him if something happens to me.

Right?

You have nothing to be afraid of, madam.

- Your Highness, if you go now. - Then what?

- Let me go with you. - No. Michał, want to come with us?

Count, I need a few minutes to get dressed.

You're a bold ruffian, old chap!

Tell us, where is your hetman and what's going on with him.

The Emperor is in Kazan, in the Kremlin. I saw it.

You're lying. Kazan's Kremlin wasn't defeated.

Pugachev was defeated a month ago.

From there he went to Tsaritsyno and Saratov.

I made a mistake, Your Excellency. He's in Tsaritsyno, yes.

What was I arrested for? I just came out of the forest, they arrested me.

I'm not guilty, Your Excellency.

He says that he was Pugachev's prisoner in the camp.

I was.

How did you, nobleman of commissioned grade, survive?

- I feel guilty for this. - Did you deny the Empress?

No, I bluffed my way out of this.

I spouted poetry, my friend Ivan Bludov played the violin.

I saw how officers died a hero's death. They were tortured.

Still brings the scene back to me. I couldn't die that way. It's a shame.

A hero's death is a glorious thing, indeed.

But the living are more useful during a war.

Maybe you can tell us something, useful.

Michał, arent you getting bored with us?

I came here not for entertainment, but to protect you.

- Count Orlov can protect me. - Who can protect you from Count Orlov?

Thank you, Elizaveta. You saved my life. I will never forget it.

What did you feel when you woke up?

Hunger. Sharp hunger.

I understand you. Once I almost died in a French village. I wanted to eat too.

I thought I could eat that village with its residents and church.

I ate all the food supplies on the ship.

- I would eat nothing on your ship. - Why?

I've been afraid of the sea since childhood.

I often dream that I'm drowning.

- What were you afraid of in childhood? - Nothing.

- Nothing at all? - I was afraid only for my brother.

- Your brother... - Grigory.

He is older by three years. But I have always been like his nanny.

Grishka never listened,

always got himself into touble.

I was afraid for him, that's why I was near. Now he's like a child again.

- You miss him. - Yes, I miss him.

I have no reasons, apart from him, to return to Russia.

Tell me, is it true, that you and your brother killed the Emperor?

Yes. I'm not proud of it. He abdicated the throne, he wasn't dangerous.

He just wanted to live peacefully with his girl.

She made you do it. Ekaterina.

Your brother went mad because of her.

It doesn't make my guilt any the less.

Pugachev gave shelter to the widow of the executed officer, major Kharlvov.

He took to her, and she answered him.

The cossacks grew jealous and hung her.

- What did Pugachev do to them? - Nothing.

He left and said, "Command yourselves".

According to the latest reports, Pugachev hasn't been seen at the head of the army.

That's why the rebels began to lose more frequently.

My officers have offered me four plans to attack the impostor.

All of them are reasonable, but people will die in every case.

Is there a way to solve the situation without bloodshed?

Give them money, they'll rat him out. I think they're ready to do it now.

- We have to know to whom to address. - Chumak, Tvorog and Fedul.

Chumakov, Tvorogov and Fedulev. We know of them.

We should offer them something that costs more than money. Life.

What are you going to do?

If you don't execute me, I'll hand in my resignation.

- To drink vodka in the village? - To write poems.

I'd like to do it, too. But I have the duty, and I don't have the talent.

Well, Gavrila Romanovich, write.

But firstly write an explanation to the military collegium.

- Uncle? - Sit down.

I have to admit. I met that second Russian. We saw him alongside the quay.

What did he want?

He said king Stanisław is ready to give Ogiński their estates and money back,

if we swear an oath to Ekaterina.

- You hate Russian authority. - I do, but I hate to sit idle more.

Yes, the Russians are our enemies, but they're more powerful.

We can sit and hiss at them from our dark corner till the end of our days.

But we can also come to light and try to cooperate.

- What is more important for Poland? - What about Elizaveta?

She doesn't need us. Don't you see that our paths are diverging?

But at home our fighting will make sense.

I'm not going to swear an oath to the Russians.

At your age everything seems to be very simple.

The feeling will not last.

- You're lying, you won't catch me! - Stop!

Come on! Come on! Take it!

- Trofim! - What are you waiting for?

Give it to me!

What are you thinking of, Your Excellency?

I won't give it to you!

Why are you always gloomy, so lonely?

- I'm not tired of being alone. - Talk to us!

What about?

Stop, devil! I told you not to bully Ustinya.

She's not your friend in games!

He doesn't understand that I'm your wife, and he's a boy.

It's time to understand! You're an adult cossack.

You can't talk to the Empress this way, you have no right!

Do you remember the punishment, I promised to you? Come here.

Closer.

Don't you like your teammates, Count? Do you believe in us?

I'm the same Count as you.

Why don't we hug? So strongly that even the bones crack.

Okay, let's do it.

- Did you eat your fill, immortal? - The Antichrists!

Are you mad, bastards?

The Antichrists! The Antichrists!

Chumak! Tvorog! Help me!

Lariat! Tie his hands!

Run, my daughter!

That's all, Yemelya, it's the end of the Emperor.

You'll come to regret it, bastards! You'll come to regret it!

Your mouths will be ragged.

- Tighter! - Will you rag, Yemelya?

Let me go! Let me go!

Do you have some home brew, I want to drink.

Run, my son, run! Trofim, son. It's over.

- Please! You have to leave. - No, I won't abandon you!

Are you leaving?

I ask you for the last time, please, let's go to France together.

We have nothing to do here.

My dear pan Kazimierz, do you remember you said that you chose long ago?

I've chosen just now.

- Do you trust him? - I love him.

Then I have no objection.

- Michał, are you leaving me? - I rue the day I met you.

All this time was wasted for nothing.

But for me it's different. It was the best time of my life.

- Farewell, pan Kazimierz. - I want you to be lucky.

I hope you haven't made a mistake. Goodbye.

Hold right there.

Take the Emperor, and us with him.

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