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Michael Tapper: Fairy princess meets the sexual emperor
“’The Great’ is purely Katrina’s story of her journey to greatness, much like the one that has long mastered the history books. She is the beautiful, educated, and romantic idealist who brings the philosophy of the French Enlightenment into the medieval darkness of Russia, “writes Michael Tapper.
Elle Fanning as young Catherine the Great (1729-1796) in HBO Nordic’s “The Great”.
This is a cultural article. Analysis and values are the writer’s own.
In the fall, Helen Mirren rescued the dreaded miniseries “Catherine the Great” in the role of the mature Russian Empress, a staunch international power player from the throne in 1762 until her death in 1796. The new HBO comedy series “The Great “turns the clock back to 1745. Catherine is a 15-year-old German Princess by the name of Sophie Friederike Auguste (Elle Fanning) when she arrives in St. Petersburg to marry her one-year-old brother, Karl Peter Ulrik, known as Emperor Peter III during his brief time on the throne in the spring of 1762.
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