Catherine is frustrated by the lack of meaningful change in her rule of Russia so far. Seeking to shake the court out of its complacency, she plays a joke on them involving a serf to prove a point, but it gets wildly out of hand with tragic consequences.
Keywords: 18th-century , alternate-history , costume-drama , king , palace-intrigue , queen , russian-empire , slapstick-comedy , tv-shows-online