Catherine the Great and Crimea

[Robert Urbanek]

While the life and intrigues of Russian empress Catherine the Great could fill six seasons, the 2019 HBO series condensed her rule into four episodes, emphasizing her relationship with the heroic military commander Grigory Potemkin and the expansion of the Russian empire, particularly the annexation of Crimea and the establishment of the port of Sevastopol.

In retrospect. the series seems to validate Putin’s claim that Crimea belongs to Russia.

The sets and costumes are lavish. Some of the quarrels between Catherine and Potemkin seem contrived.

Helen Mirren is convincing as an empowered woman skilled at political machinations. But, as Mirren is a 74-year-old woman playing a 35-year-old empress at the start of the story, the seduction scenes are more cringe-worthy than credible.

 

[surada]

While the life and intrigues of Russian empress Catherine the Great could fill six seasons, the 2019 HBO series condensed her rule into four episodes, emphasizing her relationship with the heroic military commander Grigory Potemkin and the expansion of the Russian empire, particularly the annexation of Crimea and the establishment of the port of Sevastopol.

In retrospect. the series seems to validate Putin’s claim that Crimea belongs to Russia.

The sets and costumes are lavish. Some of the quarrels between Catherine and Potemkin seem contrived.

Helen Mirren is convincing as an empowered woman skilled at political machinations. But, as Mirren is a 74-year-old woman playing a 35-year-old empress at the start of the story, the seduction scenes are more cringe-worthy than credible.

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Where can I watch it?

 

[Robert Urbanek]

Where can I watch it?

I watched it on a DVD set from my public library. Presumably, it can be found on HBO or some other streaming service.

 

[Lemmi]

It would be nice if the Ottoman Turks took back Crimea rather than let the little Russian Napoleon rule over it. Putin needs to be expunged and the sooner the better.

 

[Darkwind]

Where can I watch it?

Amazon.com

 

[Zebra]

Lemmi

It would be nice if the Ottoman Turks took back Crimea rather than let the little Russian Napoleon rule over it. Putin needs to be expunged and the sooner the better.

or the tatars!

 

[Lemmi]

Lemmi

or the tatars!

or the British by God!

 

[Litwin]

While the life and intrigues of Russian empress Catherine the Great could fill six seasons, the 2019 HBO series condensed her rule into four episodes, emphasizing her relationship with the heroic military commander Grigory Potemkin and the expansion of the Russian empire, particularly the annexation of Crimea and the establishment of the port of Sevastopol.

In retrospect. the series seems to validate Putin’s claim that Crimea belongs to Russia.

The sets and costumes are lavish. Some of the quarrels between Catherine and Potemkin seem contrived.

Helen Mirren is convincing as an empowered woman skilled at political machinations. But, as Mirren is a 74-year-old woman playing a 35-year-old empress at the start of the story, the seduction scenes are more cringe-worthy than credible.

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Where can I watch it?

It would be nice if the Ottoman Turks took back Crimea rather than let the little Russian Napoleon rule over it. Putin needs to be expunged and the sooner the better.

Lemmi

or the tatars!

did they show how she died ?
pa a German prostitute who killed he czar husband in order to rule Mongol -Muscovite ulus from the throne of the house of Genghiz ? she was totally illegitimate

"Catherine the Great was a woman of unbridled sexual passion, ....And one unsavory rumor has it that her sexual habits killed her. That is, her supposed passion for horse dick.

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what do you think about morality of Muscovite rulers (khans), Putin, Koba, Lenin, Ivan the Terrible, etc.? "Catherine the Great was a woman of unbridled sexual passion, ....And one unsavory rumor has it that her sexual habits killed her. That is, her supposed passion for horse dick. According...

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