Episode 1 S01 E01

Joseph Quinn (as Paul Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia) Richard Roxburgh (as Grigory Orlov) Kevin McNally (as Alexei Orlov) Gina McKee (as Countess Praskovya Bruce) Rory Kinnear (as Nikita Ivanovich Panin) Jason Clarke (as Grigory Potemkin) James Northcote (as Alexander Bezborodko) Phil Dunster (as Andrey Razumovsky) Georgina Beedle (as Natalia Alexeievna) Iain Mitchell (as Archbishop Arsenius) Thomas Doherty (as Pyotr Zavadovsky) Paul Ritter (as Alexander Suvorov) Paul Kaye (as Yemelyan Pugachev) Clive Russell (as The Fool) Helen Mirren (as Catherine the Great) Adam El Hagar (as Valerian Zubov) Antonia Clarke (as Maria Fedorovna) John Hodgkinson (as Pyotr Rumyantsev)

older woman younger man relationship mother son relationship ottoman empire palace intrigue 18th century