Ekaterina (Seasons 1–4)

Ekaterina (2014) is a Russian historical drama series you can watch online on iFILM. It follows the story of a young Prussian princess, Sophie Friederike, who arrives in Saint Petersburg as a bride for the heir to the Russian throne — and ends up seizing the empire for herself. Marina Aleksandrova plays the future Catherine the Great across all four seasons.

Sophie is brought to court as a political instrument. Empress Elizabeth wants a grandson, not a daughter-in-law with ambitions. Her husband Peter III barely looks at her. The courtiers smile and scheme. Every alliance shifts without warning, and a single misstep can cost a woman her head. Sophie learns the rules fast. She adopts a new name, a new faith, a new country — and quietly starts to play the game better than anyone around her.

Produced by AMedia and COSMOS Studio for the Russia-1 channel, the series ran for 56 episodes across four completed seasons. Stream all episodes of Ekaterina online on iFILM.