History Series / Ekaterina

First 3 seasons are available on Amazon Prime with English subtitles.

All 3 seasons are available on Amazon Prime with English subtitles.

%%* PimpedOutCape

%%* RequisiteRoyalRegalia

%%* ScreamingBirth: Thrice.

%%* TallDarkAndHandsome:
%%** Prince Saltykov
%%** Grigory Orlov and his brothers

%%* UnwantedSpouse: Catherine.
%%* VictoriasSecretCompartment

* RatedMForManly: Averted with Pyotr Fedorovitch. He tries his best to be super manly, but in reality is a parody of traditional manliness.

* OverlyLongTitle: By the Grace of God, We, Ekaterina Alekseyvna, Empress and Autocratix of All the Russias, Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod; Tsarina of Kazan, Tsarina of Astrakhan, Tsarina of Poland, Tsarina of Siberia, Tsarina of Chersonese Taurian, Tsarina of Georgia; Lady of Pskov and Grand Princess of Smolensk, Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia, Finland; Princess of Estland, Livland, Courland, Semigalia, Samogitia, Belostok, Karelia, Tver, Yugorsky land, Perm, Vyatka, Bolgar and others; Lady and Grand Princess of Nizhny Nogorod, Chernigov, Ryazan, Polotsk, Rostov, Yaroslavl, Belozersk, Udorsky land, Obdorsk, Kondia, Vitebsk, Mstislav, and all of the northern countries Master; and Lady of Iberia, Kartli, and Kabardia lands and Armenian provinces; hereditary Sovereign and ruler of the Circassian and Mountainous Princes and of others; Lady of Turkestan; and others, and others, and others.

* MeaningfulRename:
** Catherine was born Princess Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg; before her marriage to Peter Fedorovitch she is renamed Ekaterina Alekseyevna (Catherine, daughter of Aleksey) by Empress. Catherine points out that her father's name is Christian August, which would make her Sofiya Christianovna (Sophie, daughter of Christian), but Empress tells her she is to bear her mother's name and that is that. See [[UsefulNotes/RussianNamingConvention patronymics info]].

* AbsoluteCleavage: The majority of Catherine's and Empress Elizaveta's dresses are low cut and boobage is readily visible.

* CarpetOfVirility: Grigory Orlov.

* CoolCrown

* DancesAndBalls

* MsFanservice: Catherine gets naked or partially naked multiple times while disrobing, having sex, bathing, and praying.

* PimpedOutCape

* RequisiteRoyalRegalia

* ScreamingBirth: Thrice.

* TallDarkAndHandsome:
** Prince Saltykov
** Grigory Orlov and his brothers

* UnwantedSpouse: Catherine.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment

* NiceHat: Pyotr Fedorovitch is seen earing his three-horned hat almost all of the time, except when he is sleeping.

* AndYourRewardIsClothes: Empress tells Catherine she will be gifted dresses because whe behaved well in the court.

* YouHaveFailedMe: The Turkish Sultan kills an adviser who failed him. With the adviser's dead son's own sword, no less.
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Pyotr Fedorovitch. Following his accession to the throne as Emperor Peter III, he orders Russia's troops to withdraw from the conflict with Prussia. He is deeply despised for this.

''Ekaterina: The Rise of Catherine the Great'' is a Russia-1 TV series about the life of UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat, a Prussian princess who married the naturalized Russian Grand Duke Pyotr (Peter) Fedorovitch. The series follows Catherine from her arrival in Russia as she meets the reigning Empress Elizaveta
(Elizabeth) Petrovna and tries to fall in love with her future husband.

* AppealToTradition: Empress chastises Pyotr Fedorovitch for bringing his dogs inside, as 'Russians keep their dogs outside'. He scoffs and says Carl Friedrich, King of his native Prussia, would take his dogs wherever he wants.

* ActuallyThatsMyAssistant: When Catherine's carriage is knocked over and Prince Saltykov opens the door to check if she is okay, Princess is sure that he is her bethroted, Pyotr Fedorovitch, and tries her best eyelash batting.

* ArrangedMarriage: Catherine's with Pyotr. Unhappy one.

** All female characters of noble background wear elaborate, ornate dresses with loads of embroidered and jeweled details. TruthInTelevision, Empress Elizaveta Petrovna never wore the same dress twice and often changed dresses several times a day. She demanded that French fabric salesmen sold to her first or be jailed.
** Men follow suit, altough they are much less varied in appearance.

* DeadpanSnarker: Empress is sarcastic to no end.

* TheIngenue: Catherine for the majority of the first season, until Empress advises her to take a lover.

* HonorBeforeReason: Catherine declines to take part in coup and overthrowing of the Empress, even though there is a good chance Elizaveta Petrovna will get her killed or imprisoned for all eternity, because she doesn't want to have blood on her hands.

* KingonHisDeathbed: It takes two episodes for Empress to die of unknown illness.

** Pavel Petrovich, officially Pyotr Fedorovitch's son, but fathered by Prince Saltykov

** Averted with Aleksey Grigorievich Bobrinsky, who has been named patronymically after his actual father, Grigoryi Orlov, because it didn't matter at the time if the child was legitimate or not.

''Ekaterina: The Rise of Catherine the Great'' is a Russia-1 TV series about the life of UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat, a Prussian princess who marries the naturalized Russian Grand Duke Pyotr (Peter) Fedorovitch. The series follows Catherine from her arrival in Russia as she meets the reigning Empress Elizaveta

** Catherine and Liza to Pyotr Fedorovitch, Catherine with her strong, seductive persona being Veronica to ditzy, clumsy Betty of Liza.

** Catherine speaks mainly German in the first episode, so does her mother, Princess Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp, as they ae both Prussian.
** Pyotr Fedorovitch, being a naturalized Russian, also likes to shout out commands in German.

* RatedMForManly: Averted with Pyotr Fedorovitch, who tries his best to be super manly, but in the end of the day is a parody of traditional manliness.
* RenaissanceMan: Catherine. She wants to study mathematics and physics, is seen reading Voltaire, endorses Academy of Sciences.

** Grigoryi Orlov and his brothers

* WarIsGlorious: Pyotr Fedorovitch thinks that based on his tiresome wars won with tin soldiers.

* YouHaveFailedMe: The Turkish Sultan kills an adviser who has failed him. With the adviser's dead son's own sword, no less.
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Pyotr Fedorovitch. Following his accession to the throne, he orders Russia's troops to withdraw from the conflict with Prussia. He is openly called a traitor for this.

* SheCleansUpNicely: Afters Empress' and Pyotr Fedorovitch's deaths Catherine blooms into her full potential, getting more confident and strong. Also she wears a PimpedOutDress on the reg now.