The first season of the Russian historical drama «Secrets of Palace Revolutions», which can be watched online in our online cinema with free access, begins with any of its ten episodes and tells the story of statesmen of the Russian Empire fighting for power after the death of Peter the First. Russia, January 25, 1725. «Give everything away...». These were the only two words Emperor Peter the First managed to write in his will before he died. From that moment on, a struggle for power begins in the country, in which various statesmen are ready to do anything to obtain it. Catherine I’s lover, His Serene Highness Prince Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, suddenly bursts into a conspiracy plotted against the dying emperor and emerges victorious. He manages to gain unlimited power; however, his opponents are not asleep, and the likelihood that Menshikov will retain it decreases with each passing day.
