Brian Blessed credited as playing...
Bestuzhev
- Catherine: It may take time, but together we are going to change this country.
- Catherine: [in French] L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers.
- Bestuzhev: [translating] "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains"?
- Catherine: Rousseau. Don't you read him?
- Bestuzhev: Um, he's a bit revolutionary for me, Ma'am.
- [Catherine smiles knowingly; Bestuzhev does the same but looks uncomfortable]
- Bestuzhev: [to Catherine] Politics is a brutal business, Ma'am. Are you sure you've got the stomach for it?