The Great er en satirisk dramaserie om den unge, idealistiske Catherine (Elle Fanning), der senere blev kendt som Catherine the Great. Catherine kommer som ung kvinde til Rusland for at indgå i et arrangeret ægteskab med landets kejser, Peter (Nicholas Hoult). I mødet med et dystert og deprimerende Rusland indser Catherine hurtigt, at de forhåbninger om kærlighed og det søde liv, hun havde gjort sig inden ankomst, falder pladask til jorden. Hun beslutter sig derfor for at ændre tingenes tilstand – det kræver blot, at hun slår sin mand ihjel, vinder over kirken og udfordrer militæret! Serien er skrevet af Tony McNamara, der også stod bag manuskriptet til den prisvindende film, The Favourite, fra 2018.
1745. The reigning Empress Elizabeth Petrovna is infertile. The only heir is her feeble-minded nephew Peter III. Elizabeth cannot allow Peter to ascend to the throne, so she decides to marry the tsarevich, wait for the birth of her son, and then take the boy and raise him as a real Russian emperor herself. Brides are coming to St. Petersburg. Among them is the lovely Fike - the young Princess Sofia Frederica from the impoverished branch of the Prussian kings.
Russian Empire. The second decade of the twentieth century. As a result of the conflict between the Entente and the bloc of the Central Powers led by Germany, which erupted in August 1914, Russia is drawn into the First World War. A wave of unrest is rolling through the country. Revolutionary moods are increasing every day. Counterintelligence is trying with all its might to suppress the activity of German spies active in the territory of the country ...
This mystery thriller throws a Russian spin on one of the world’s most famous characters, the series follows the esteemed detective from London to stunning St Petersburg, on the trail of a suspected serial murderer. Sherlock Holmes (Maxim Matveyev) is on the hunt for Jack the Ripper. The infamous killer left a bloody trail in London and fled to the Russian Empire, with Sherlock on his tail. With new characters, Dr Kartsev and Sophia supporting Sherlock, and a new nemesis in Znamensky, this is an exciting, glossy action series.
Russian miniseries based on the novel The Brothers Karamazov.
Lucy Worsley travels to Russia to tell the extraordinary story of the dynasty that ruled the country for more than three centuries - the Romanovs.