I have always loved to learn about the disadvantaged women in history who were able to use their powerful energy to change themselves. Catherine II was one of them. The earliest contact was in high school, and all her words reverberated were, 'Give me another two hundred years, and the whole of Europe will crawl under my feet'. It seems that history or God did not give her such a long time, and this conclusion is not necessarily true. If it is given to her for two hundred years, things may not happen. But the arrogance is admirable. There are many records of her great achievements and expansion of territory.
Here are two of her stories, but this TV series didn't say anything at all. I'm really disappointed by this. One is that she was not an Orthodox Christian before, but Lutheran, but in order to be better accepted by the Russians, she converted to the Orthodox Church. Those who are familiar with history must know how fierce this religious dispute is. Bloody Mary is the product of the British Protestant Catholic dispute. The second is that she didn't know how to speak Russian before, but it was also for her life in Russia after marriage, to make Russians forget her Prussian birth. She studied hard, often late at night. Will think of Marie Curie, who was studying hard in Paris. In addition, Catherine II's other show of its daring-inoculation of smallpox is involved, but in a vulgar way.
She is also the only woman named 'The Great' in Russian history, and there are only two women named 'The Great' in Russian history, the other being Peter the Great. In other countries, such as the United Kingdom, only one became 'The Great', that is, Alfred the Great. He resisted the attack of the Vikings, and the Kingdom of Wessex became the only country in England that was not occupied at that time.
When I saw such a TV show, I was very hopeful. But it should be said that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. From beginning to end, our lovely and beautiful heroine is emphasizing her own destiny and her own fate, but I never see why she has such an 'illusion'. Archbishop doesn't appear to be the only magician at court. As I said in the title, there is nowhere to see where 'The Great' is except for the name, and of course the shapeless sculpture is 'Peter The Great'. But I don't think this movie should be talking about this sculpture, right?
Although the TV series has been reminded, 'except for the same name, everything else is made up' (an occasionally true story). However, it is unbelievable that the gap with history is so big. Why design such a large background? And why should something be changed when there is absolutely no reason to change it? For example, Peter the Great was this Peter's maternal grandfather. It is a bit like "Talking about Qianlong", and in some places it is deliberately made funny to reflect the dark humor of British dramas, but it feels self-defeating. What does it mean that the two armies are even facing each other, and the nobles in the middle are hanging out with wine glasses? Do you really think bullets have eyes?
The roles and emotional development of the heroine and the second male lead are also very lacking. It may be because the screenwriter wants to say too many things, so everything is not very complete. Of course, the emperor's temperament is eccentric, and the queen finds other people, which is normal. But I didn't see the development process of the two people's love to the death. But another way of thinking, love at first sight also exists, maybe it's just that I'm a little unclear. This emperor also reminds me of the emperor in "The Frost Flower Shop", who is so clever that he is self-defeating. Hey, I guess I may be the strangest person in the world, and I still have some sympathy for the emperor. Well, sick.
Also, there is a little thing. Originally, I saw black people in the movie, and I thought it was a kind of political correctness, because the heroine of Les Miserable in London was played by black people. Later, I found out that there were really black people in the nobles at that time, and even the great-grandfather of the great Russian poet Pushkin was a black person. Really learned.
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