Why Catherine the Great hated her son
Catherine the Great is always depicted as a good mother but in reality, she wasn't. She was an extremely toxic parent and it is no wonder that her son, Paul I, hated her with passion.
Painting, used in the video:
00: 07 Rokotov Fyodor Stepanovich Portrait of Catherine the Great, 1763
01: 00 Portrait of Grand Prince Pavel Petrovich, future Emperor Paul I, as a child by Unknown Artist, XVIII century
01: 20 Alexey Bobrinsky by C.L.Christinec, c.1770
01: 43 Childhood portrait of Pavel Petrovich by Unknown Artist
03: 14 Catherine II at the coffin of Empress Elizabeth by Nikola Nikolaevich Ge
03: 19 Portrait of Grand Prince Paul Petrovich in the classroom by Virgilius Eriksen, 1766
03: 29 Catherine II on the balcony of the Winter Palace, saluted by the Guards and the people on the day of the coup d'état on 28 June (9 July) 1762 by Joachim Kaest
03: 53 Portrait of Paul I in Coronation Robes by Vladimir Borovikovsky
05: 17 Sophia Stephanova Razumovskaya (born Ushakova) by Franz Ludwig Close
08: 02 Natalia Alexeievna of Russia by Alexander Roslin, 1776
08: 38Count Andrey Kyrillovich Razumovsky by Alexander Roslin, 1776
10: 11 Pavel Petrovich and Mariya Fyodorovna by Pompeo Batoni, 1782
10: 16 Family of Paul I of Russia by Gerhard von Kügelgen, 1800
10: 49 Grigory Orlov by V.Eriksen
11: 29 Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia by George Dowe
11: 51 Portrait of Alexander I by Vladimir Borovikovsky
and Constantin Pavlovich by Vladimir Borovikovsky
12: 20 The murder of Tsar Paul I of Russia, March 1801. A print from "La France et les Français à Travers les Siècles", Volume IV, F Roy editor, A Challamel, Saint-Antoine, 1882-1884.
13: 03 Alexandra Pavlovna by Borovikovsky, 1790s
13: 09 Portrait of Caesarevich Pavel Petrovich by Unknown artist
Visuals from:
Yekaterina/Екатерина (season 2 and 3)
Tv series mentioned at 00:25 are (in order of appearance):
Великая/Velikaya
Yekaterina/Екатерина
Catherine the Great
The Great
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