TV series: The Romanovs

The last words of the sovereign were: “Hurry home. Die in the palace."

Rushing in a carriage across the snowy Russian fields to St. Petersburg, the German princess Fickhen, as her parents called her, or Ekaterina Alekseevna, as they would call her in Russia, dreamed. She was only 15, she was the bride of the heir to the Russian throne. What did she dream about? It must be, like all young girls, about love. But her dreams were soon dashed: no one in Russia was going to love her. And then she herself fell in love with Russia.

Several battles in East Prussia forced Frederick to say: “It’s not enough to kill a Russian soldier, he also needs to be knocked down.” And Russian soldiers almost completely destroyed his army.

Catherine wrote to count Potemkin: "... the trouble is that my heart does not want to be on the hour willingly without love; forever ... if you want me to snap, then show me as much friendship as love and especially love and tell the truth."

In one of his letters he wrote: "Suffering for all the country, wishing him good. Enemies do me a mischief demon, hard analysis of my innocence to whom the case is unknown. God sees the truth".

This year, 7208 th the creation of the world, was supposed to start as usual from 1st of September. But there it was. Russia has moved to the chronology of the Nativity, so the next year was the 1,700 th. The Royal will was ordered: "From this number to stop fooling people's heads and count the New year everywhere from the first of January. In honor of the New year decorations with firs children amuse, sleigh ride from the mountains. And adults drinking and not commit massacre - on that other days missing."