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I don't want to give the series a very low rating just for the acting of Plotnikov and many others. But to turn the biography of one of the greatest people in our history into a poorly made propaganda sheet is a crime, couldn't propaganda have been made thinner, and at least historical dates and facts should have been observed? Why did the same second channel do a great job with the series "Ekaterina", but here it's such a hack? They pulled events from history, but there is no complete picture.
The image of Tsarevich Alexei, by the way, is not bad, they were clearly inspired by the famous painting by Nikolai Ge. Well, the scene in the study between father and son is an obvious reference to "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan" by Repin.

Plotnikov made not only a Pot, but also Peter the Great. From the very first episode, I understand that I would not want another actor for this role.

Is Surkova having a challenge?
Elizabeth (Peter's daughter) was, now she has become Natalia Naryshkina (Peter's mother),
along the way she managed to be Catherine II (wife of Peter's grandson
), Peter's wife Catherine I remained to play and niece Anna Ioannovna. 😄

I liked the beginning - it was shot well and vividly. You don't even notice that the actors are far from young. Fyodor's last will was composed, of course, and further events are shown inaccurately, but you can't deny the artistry of the series.

It's a pity, of course, that Khovanshah was not touched upon in the last series of events, but this has more to do with Sophia, and there are a lot of theological disputes there, the mass audience, and not only the mass audience, will not understand all these metaphysical debates. But thank you for showing that Peter loved his first wife at first, and not that he was forcibly married, and he almost ran away from the wedding. My mother chose a wife, but it wasn't exactly some kind of wildness in those days. By the way, he met Mons later than he met his wife.
It is strange that Peter's beloved sister, Natalia, is not in the series, because she was one of the companions of his ideas, and by 1693 she was already 20 years old. Otherwise, Evdokia's mother and brother were shown, but the tsar's sister was not.