So many things on this scene! We can see Elizabeth is clearly done with Peter lol, her expression when she hears the march is priceless! I feel for both Peter and Catherine, difficult situation for both of them. How he is afraid and she is trying to make it work somehow. Not easy! I think the actors show that so well. Thanks for posting!
Fun fact: At 00:06, we see two portraits in the bedroom. At the right, it's Catherine I, Empress Elizabeth's mother. At the left, it's Maria Theresa of Austria, a fellow female ruler in Elizabeth's time, who has just been on the throne for 5 years at the time of Catherine and Peter's wedding. For the MT painting to be in the Russian palace at the time of this wedding, Elizabeth must have been very quick to acquire it 😀 It was painted by Van Meytens in 1745, exactly the year of the wedding.
So much is going on! Elizabeth is done with Peter, Catherine asking Sergei for help, Sergei literally pulling his sword out before the other guy stops him, and the whole “consummation” scene. What’s sad is that Peter is right. When Catherine did have a child, Paul, Elizabeth took him and raised him away from his parents. Catherine cutting her hands with a knife and smearing it in the sheets to make it look like they had consummated the marriage and how they didn’t even say anything to each other when she did it; it was like an unspoken understanding.
I haven’t found where to watch the whole series but I know about History and what she became and I think it’s brilliant how they portray her genius and her scheming mind from the get go. Her way of coming up with a way to fake the “virginity blood” is just mind blowing.
In the series, yes, poor boy. In reality, we don't know how much he was really aware of Elizabeth's plans (of taking their son and getting rid of them) as early as the beginning of their marriage. It was reported that he had no interest in and affection for Catherine, and they barely spent any time together, during the day or during the night. Truth be told, Catherine also preferred him to stay away from her bed after a smallpox badly disfigured his face in the first months of their marriage 😞
@@Lily1127channel I didn´t know much about Catherine and Peter, but I find their situation both in the series and and real life very distressing.Poor Catherine and poor Peter!
@@Lily1127channel Yes, he got smallpox.Very unlucky for him.It made matters even worse for them. And yes, very few arranged marriages turned out to be happy.
@@lethabrooks9112 They say that Paul was either Peter's son or that of Saltykov. Looking at the actors who played both teenage Paul and Saltykov, my guess is that they went with this implication.
@@Lily1127channel Actually French was the lingua franca of the Russian court from the time of Peter the Great right up until Nicholas II, though to a much lesser degree towards the end. However we'll never know if that meant exclusively French, or if the Imperial family in private would have spoken Russian. Its difficult to know what they spoke when, or if they maybe cycled through literally depending on the listener. We take for granted the mastery people had over language at this time.
to smear blood on the sheets. The sheets would be checked in the next morning and they would expect to find blood on there if they banged (which is necessary to confirm the marriage). So by smearing the blood on the sheets, she fakes that it happened - you can see him realise it and give her a nod at the end
Blood on the wedding night sheets was a sign that the virgin had consummated the marriage. The blood was proof that she was a virgin on her wedding night. They used to hang the bloody sheets out afterwards to show the community that the bride was a virgin. I know a woman that was subject to this in Italy.
So many things on this scene! We can see Elizabeth is clearly done with Peter lol, her expression when she hears the march is priceless! I feel for both Peter and Catherine, difficult situation for both of them. How he is afraid and she is trying to make it work somehow. Not easy! I think the actors show that so well. Thanks for posting!
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Fun fact: At 00:06, we see two portraits in the bedroom. At the right, it's Catherine I, Empress Elizabeth's mother. At the left, it's Maria Theresa of Austria, a fellow female ruler in Elizabeth's time, who has just been on the throne for 5 years at the time of Catherine and Peter's wedding.
For the MT painting to be in the Russian palace at the time of this wedding, Elizabeth must have been very quick to acquire it 😀 It was painted by Van Meytens in 1745, exactly the year of the wedding.
So much is going on! Elizabeth is done with Peter, Catherine asking Sergei for help, Sergei literally pulling his sword out before the other guy stops him, and the whole “consummation” scene.
What’s sad is that Peter is right. When Catherine did have a child, Paul, Elizabeth took him and raised him away from his parents. Catherine cutting her hands with a knife and smearing it in the sheets to make it look like they had consummated the marriage and how they didn’t even say anything to each other when she did it; it was like an unspoken understanding.
Ironicly I think the empress secretly preperd Cathrine to take over when she died
She did the thing with the blood.....really handled it well, her husband was a disaster
Truth be told, I feel for Peter. He knows what's going to happen and he doesn't want it to happen because it would only lead to him getting hurt.
I haven’t found where to watch the whole series but I know about History and what she became and I think it’s brilliant how they portray her genius and her scheming mind from the get go. Her way of coming up with a way to fake the “virginity blood” is just mind blowing.
You can watch it with Amazon Prime.
Catherine the Great full episode on RUclips
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Available in English?
Catherine is the most beautiful actress I've ever seen
same
Well, now I understand Peter´s lack of interest in his bride and in his marriage: it was fear, pure fear.
In the series, yes, poor boy. In reality, we don't know how much he was really aware of Elizabeth's plans (of taking their son and getting rid of them) as early as the beginning of their marriage. It was reported that he had no interest in and affection for Catherine, and they barely spent any time together, during the day or during the night. Truth be told, Catherine also preferred him to stay away from her bed after a smallpox badly disfigured his face in the first months of their marriage 😞
@@Lily1127channel I didn´t know much about Catherine and Peter, but I find their situation both in the series and and real life very distressing.Poor Catherine and poor Peter!
@@Belinda8881 Yes, it's just such a perfect example why those arranged marriages between strangers sucked 😕
@@Lily1127channel Yes, he got smallpox.Very unlucky for him.It made matters even worse for them.
And yes, very few arranged marriages turned out to be happy.
@National Socialism I understand ,but I was referring to arranged royal marriages.
I feel so bad for her.....
To be fair, Peter didn't even want the throne.
I felt sorry for Catherine !!
Me too 😢
And yet she still had a son from this failure of a marriage.
Some Historians say that her son Paul wasn't Peters child that Catherine had an affair with another man.
@@lethabrooks9112 They say that Paul was either Peter's son or that of Saltykov. Looking at the actors who played both teenage Paul and Saltykov, my guess is that they went with this implication.
Can someone please explain this scene? (I have no idea why he starts marching)
It's a kind of weird habit of his, he regularly does it.
Here are all the scenes posted so far: ruclips.net/p/PL8tu4F9QpC77ORgXZ5Yk18pP-tYemBo7J
@@Lily1127channel thankssss ❤
Catherine the Great is strong independent woman who won against weak ass guy loo
Movie name
They should speak french , french language is popular language in the 18th century court of europan monarchs
Not in Russia
@@Lily1127channel Actually French was the lingua franca of the Russian court from the time of Peter the Great right up until Nicholas II, though to a much lesser degree towards the end. However we'll never know if that meant exclusively French, or if the Imperial family in private would have spoken Russian. Its difficult to know what they spoke when, or if they maybe cycled through literally depending on the listener. We take for granted the mastery people had over language at this time.
Series name???
Ekaterina
What is the name of movie
Ekaterina.
It's a Russian tv series.
What a man 😂😂😂
I don't get it. Why did she cut herself at the end🤷
to smear blood on the sheets. The sheets would be checked in the next morning and they would expect to find blood on there if they banged (which is necessary to confirm the marriage). So by smearing the blood on the sheets, she fakes that it happened - you can see him realise it and give her a nod at the end
@@MisterL2_yt oh! Ok thanks 😘
@@MisterL2_yt i dunno why but the word 'banged' used in this context made me lol😂😂
Blood on the wedding night sheets was a sign that the virgin had consummated the marriage. The blood was proof that she was a virgin on her wedding night. They used to hang the bloody sheets out afterwards to show the community that the bride was a virgin. I know a woman that was subject to this in Italy.
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