Peter the Great: The Testament

Peter the Great: The Testament is a Russian TV series, made in 2011 and based on the novel by Daniil Granin's "Evenings with Peter the Great". The film was produced by Studio 2-B-2 entertainment and was shown on Rossiya 1, the Russian TV channel.

Plot

The film tells the story of the last years of the great monarch, Peter. He appears sick, lonely, and very concerned about those who leave their country. He wants to marry a princess before he will die, so that the throne will be secured for the future monarch. His companions, loyal before, are now only concerned about their own future and their future fate, after the death of the emperor. Who will get Russia and what will happen to the country after the death of the beloved Emperor?

Cast

• Alexander Baluyev — Peter
• Elizaveta Boyarskaya — Maria Cantemir
• Irina Rozanova — Catherine I
• Sergei Makovetsky — Alexander Menshikov
• Alexander Filippenko — Pyotr Tolstoy
• Sergei Shakurov — Fyodor Romodanovsky
• Valery Solovyev — Paul Yaguzhinsky
• Mikhail Boyarsky — Prince Dmitry Kantemir
• Anna Kovalchuk — Anastasia-Trubetskaya Cantemir
• Cyril Astafiev — Antioh Cantemir
• Valery Grishko — Fyodor Apraksin
• Willem Mons — A favourite of the Empress
• Lyudmila Shevel — Bulk
• Jeremy Noble — Dr Paulson
• Klaus-Dieter Bang— Blumentrost
• Alexander Bashirov — Court jester to Peter I Ivan Balakirev
• Igor Golovin — Makarov
• Vladimir Matveev — Alexey Kurbatov
• Mukhtar Guseyngadzhiev — Dowd
• Vladimir Borchaninov — Count Sheremetev
• Alexander Malyavin — Executioner
• Yuri Loparev — Efim Nikonov
• Galina Zhdanova — Tatiana Yushkova
• Konstantin Vorobyov — Doctor Palikula
• Ivan Krasko — Old Man
• Yefim Kamenetsky — Andrei Nartov
• Alex Zubarev — French engineer

Crew

• Writers: Igor Afanasyev, Vladimir Bortko
• Director: Vladimir Bortko
• Producers: Anton Zlatopolsky, Vladimir Bortko
• Operator: Elena Ivanova
• Artists: Vladimir Svetozarov, Marina Nikolaeva
• Composer: Vladimir Dashkevich
• Dress: Larissa Konnikova
• Make-up: Lily Rusetskaya
• Installation: Leda Semyonova
• Sound: Sergei Moshkov
• First Assistant Director: Tatiana Rozantseva
• Director: Vladimir Bortko

Premiere

The premiere took place on the channel "Rossiya 1" on May 14, 2011 (two series), and May 15 (two series).

Historical discrepancies

• The famous treatise by Vatsyayana Mallanaga "Kama Sutra" could not be known in Russia during Peter the Great, because even in the European languages it was translated only in the late 19th century.^[1]
• Dowd, that was played by Dmitry Kantemir calls himself Lezghins. Meanwhile, the Lezgins became known in Russia only after the Caspian campaign Peter 1722-1723s.
• In a conversation with the Empress Catherine I Maria Cantemir categorically calls herself a descendant of the Byzantine emperor Palaeologus. Actually kind of Moldavian ruler, Kantemirov had Tatar roots that goes back to Murza Khan Temir, who settled in 1540 from the Moldavian principality and took the Orthodoxial faith.
• In an interview with Peter the Great, Maria Cantemir refers to the "Bulletin of the French Geographical Society» (Société de géographie), which appeared only have been in 1821.
• Count Pyotr Tolstoy, sitting in a boat on the Neva, calls the two-masted ship with square-rigged, where he will swim by a "frigate". In fact it is, either a brig or a packet.
• In the film, which takes place in 1722-1723s, appears Fedor Romodanovsky (played by Sergei Shakurov), who actually died back in 1717.

Prizes and Awards

• The highest award of the city - Badge of Honor "For services to St. Petersburg" (BaltInfo 05/27/2011)
• "The Order of Merit of Moldova", Mikhail Boyarsky and Elizabeth Boyar, "a sign of the high recognition of special achievements in the development of Moldovan-Russian cooperation in the field of culture and talent for the realization of artistic images of the Moldavian Ruler Dmitry Kantemir and Princess Mary Cantemir in the film" Peter the Great. Will. " (CP SP 29/10/2011) (28/10/2011 Argumenty.ru) ("Arguments and Facts in St. Petersburg" 10/28/2011)

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