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Catherine the Great Drama

  • Gender: Female
  • Citizenship: Russian Empire
  • Born: May 2, 1729
  • Died: Nov 17, 1796

Catherine the Great is a 1934 British historical film based on the play The Czarina by Lajos Bíró and Melchior Lengyel, about the rise to power of Catherine the Great. It was directed by Paul Czinner, and stars Elisabeth Bergner as Catherine, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Grand Duke Peter, Dorothy Hale as Countess Olga, and Flora Robson as Empress Elizabeth.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

business

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

power

I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.

forgiveness

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

politics

I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster.

courage

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

imagination