He was killed during the coup that put Catherine the Great into power, but not in the way that the show depicts. In reality, ...

Catherine the Great began her life as Sophie ... She instead seized control of the Russian military, instigated a coup that deposed and killed her husband, and proceeded to rule over what ...

Taken from Catherine at birth and raised by his great aunt, Empress Elizabeth ... brother of Grigory Orlov (Richard Roxburgh), Alexei played a key role in the coup that placed Catherine on the throne.

She assumed the Russian throne through a coup in 1762. The Great ... previously said that while viewers will certainly learn about Catherine the Great while watching, the goal was to be ...

In 1745, after being received into the Russian Orthodox Church, and changing her name to Catherine, she married Grand Duke Peter, grandson of Peter the Great and heir to the Russian throne.