Peter the Great promised his young daughter Elizabeth that he would marry her to Louis XV, making her Queen of France. But all plans, including the agreements with the French King, crumble with the death of the great monarch: Peter I dies without appointing a successor. Thus begins a ruthless and merciless era of palace coups—a time of intrigue and power struggles. Will the empire built by Peter, and its new capital, Saint Petersburg, survive? What price will Elizabeth Petrovna, the youngest daughter of the great monarch, have to pay to claim her place in history? And what can women on the throne bring to Russia?

Aleksandr Bulatov: фильмография