Synopsis
Watch "Secrets of Palace Coups: Testament of the Emperor" (2000) online on iFILM — a Russian historical drama from director Svetlana Druzhinina set on the last day of Peter the Great. January 25, 1725: the dying Emperor manages only two words in his will — "Give it all..." — and never finishes the sentence. That unfinished phrase fuelled a century of intrigue and bloodshed.
While Peter's life ebbs, his wife Catherine's favourite, Prince Alexander Menshikov, muscles into a conspiracy already in motion and bends it to his will. Sergei Shakurov and Natalya Yegorova lead the principal roles, joined by Nikolai Karachentsov and Vladimir Ilyin. The first film in an eight-part cycle, it sets the series' approach: precise, cold-eyed, and unflinching about how ruthlessly power changes hands. Stream the full film on iFILM.
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