Catherine the Great

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This four-part historical drama follows the end of Catherine the Great's reign and her affair with Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin that helped shape the future of Russian politics.

Drama War & Politics

Helen Mirren

(Catherine the Great)

Jason Clarke

(Grigory Potemkin)

Rory Kinnear

(Nikita Ivanovich Panin)

Gina McKee

(Countess Praskovya Bruce)

Kevin McNally

(Alexei Orlov)

Richard Roxburgh

(Grigory Orlov)

Joseph Quinn

(Paul Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia)

Clive Russell

(The Fool)

Paul Kaye

(Yemelyan Pugachev)

Paul Ritter

(Alexander Suvorov)

Thomas Doherty

(Pyotr Zavadovsky)

Iain Mitchell

(Archbishop Arsenius)

Georgina Beedle

(Natalia Alexeievna)

John Hodgkinson

(Pyotr Rumyantsev)

Phil Dunster

(Andrey Razumovsky)

James Northcote

(Alexander Bezborodko)

Antonia Clarke

(Maria Fedorovna)

Adam El Hagar

(Valerian Zubov)