Film

Empress of Ambition: Catherine the Great

20061h 30mNRDocumentary History

Age rating: NR
Year: 2006

National Geographic: Icons of Power - Empress of Ambition documents the life and reign of Russia's Catherine the Great, widely considered one of the most controversial rulers in the history of the world.

Top cast

Alla Oding

Catherine the Great

Nicholas Schatzki

Narrator

Irina Malinovskaya

Young Catherine

Stepan Abramov

Tsar Peter III

Pavel Ryabenkov

Emelian Pugachev

Produced by

Doug Shultz, Don Campbell