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.

Cast: Irina Pegova, Filipp Yankovsky, Sergey Marin, Svetlana Smirnova-Katsagadzhieva, Yuriy Kuznetsov, Marco Dinelli, Anton Denisenko, Mariya Paley

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