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French ambassador: Russian art has no ideas, only plagiarism .
Russian director: ...
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French ambassador: You Orientals like tyrants, Alexander, Temujin, Peter... the more cruel, the more memorial it is.
Russian director: We are not anymore...
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French ambassador: Is that short man Pushkin? I have read his poems, but Erle.
Russian director: ...No, you can't say that.
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French Ambassador: Is that Ekaterina II?
Russian director: We can't get too close!
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French ambassador: There is no good music in Russia.
Russian director: This is the Russian orchestra.
French Ambassador: Who composed the music?
Russian director: Glinka.
French ambassador: Germanic?
Russian director: No, Russian.
French Ambassador: Not a Germanic? No, no, the composers are all Germanic.
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French ambassador: …oh, did I offend her? What a charming woman!
Russian director: ...
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French ambassador: I like the age of empires. You copied a lot of Napoleon's stuff!
Russian director: We fought with Napoleon at that time...
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French Ambassador: Germany? What is Germany?
Russian director: Germanic after unification. We also fought them in Petersburg...
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French Ambassador: The ball in Petersburg is the best in Europe!
Russian director:!
French Ambassador: Although I don’t like the military, look at that uniform, those handsome young men!
Russian director: ......
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French ambassador: It's so beautiful! So beautiful! So beautiful! ...
Some dialogues and babbles. The Russian mumbling monologue is really TMD!
Looking at the big screen this time, the subtitle translation is more accurate, and many interesting details can be seen. In the final grand ball, the conductor was impressively the artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater, Jekyev.
The rod of Peter the Great, Ekaterina sang Harasau, Alexander I hiding behind Bonaparte, Nicholas I who accepted the apology of the Crown Prince of Persia, a warm morning banquet for Nicholas II’s family on the eve of the revolution...300 years The prosperous Romanov dynasty came to an end, and the elegant ladies filed out, and the Hermitage of Novosibirsk remained majestic. Can't help but feel confused.
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