Royal Inoculation

In 1768, in the midst of a severe smallpox epidemic that killed every tenth inhabitant of the country, Empress Catherine II decided to set a personal example to her subjects: together with her heir, Tsarevich Pavel, she was the first to be vaccinated against the terrible disease and declared vaccination mandatory for everyone — despite court intrigues, peasant riots and the impending war with Turkey, This decree must be implemented at all costs, otherwise the deadly virus will claim even more lives.

Creators and cast

Cast

Irina Pegova, Filipp Yankovsky, Sergey Marin, Svetlana Smirnova-Katsagadzhieva, Yuriy Kuznetsov, Marco Dinelli

Studio

IRI, Smotrim, Russia 1

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Not yet rated.

Audio languages

Russian

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