La zarina

The night of the death of Peter I the Great of Russia, Catherine, his second wife, worried about the succession, decides to hide the death of the Tsar. During the hours of uncertainty that follow the death of her former lover and friend, Catalina reviews her eventful life. The illegitimate daughter of a serf, she was sold as a servant, killed in self-defense and lived through innumerable misadventures until her fate brought her to the battlefield of the Tsar's army. There, General Menshikov, a close friend of Peter the Great, will take her under her tutelage, she will meet the tsar, become his lover and years later become his wife. The Tsarina is the adventure of an unusual and brave woman, and also the story of the birth of modern Russia, of a turbulent and unstable Empire, of the madness of war and the brutality of the 18th century, when human life was barely value.