Catherine Alienates Two of her Advisors Fortunately for him, Archie still has a friend in his cousin, Marial (Phoebe Fox), who finds and saves him before he suffocates.
Her mom died young, her father was an abusive alcoholic, and Archie stepped in as her guardian. That's why she's so fiercely loyal to him. For someone whose will to survive is their main driving force, the fact that he saved her, it's written in blood for her.
She became a lady again after Catherine overthrew Peter. She then had to marry Maxim so she could stay in the apartments and still have access to her wealth.
While Marial has been a long-term friend to Catherine, at the end of The Great season 1 she betrayed them and informed Peter of Catherine's planned coup.
Several characters are fictional (Phoebe Fox's maid Marial, Adam Godley's religious adviser Archie, and Sacha Dhawan's bureaucrat Orlo, to start). The show was filmed on an elaborate soundstage in East London, not an 18th century Russian estate.
Adam Godley as Archbishop Archie
While Archie isn't based on a real person, we can assume he's a fill-in—albeit a very absurd one—for the Russian Orthodox religious advisers whose support the monarchs would have needed in court.
Aunt Elizabeth, is a main character in The Great. Her nephew is the current Emperor of Russia succeeding her sister and brother-in-law, securing a place for her at court. In "War and Vomit", she kills her half nephew Ivan VI in order to secure Catherine as second in line to the throne of Imperial Russia.
Be it strategy or foolish brashness, Marial tells Catherine that Peter slept with her mother (Gillian Anderson), which led to her death. And in a shocking finale twist, the unhinged (yet unsettlingly level-headed) Catherine orders a string of arrests at Marial's wedding to her child cousin (oof) — Marial included.
Grigor bumps into Marial; she tells him to marry her, so she doesn't lose her inheritance from her cousin Maxim.
At the end of the episode, Marial takes a gun, strides into Lady Svenska's room, and shoots her in the head.
Madame Georgina Dymov, is a main character in The Great. She is a member of Peter III's court as his lover and confidant.
Catherine Had a Child Called Paul (and Other Children)
Catherine and Peter's lovemaking in Season 1 of The Great occurs out of a duty to produce an heir, which fits with the real-life relationship between the two. In the series, Catherine's lover, Leo, is sterile, so Paul's father is undoubtedly Peter.
Marial and Catherine make amends, although Marial refuses to stop hating Peter. The old friends hug and makeup.
His main crush is Veronica Lodge, but he is also fond of Betty Cooper, forming the love triangle driving many of the comic's plot lines. He has the best intentions, but often comes into conflict with Veronica's rich father, Hiram Lodge, and Riverdale High's principal, Waldo Weatherbee.
After 67 Years, Archie Chooses Veronica In the first of a six-issue series, the longest-running love triangle in comics history appears to come to an end: Archie Andrews proposes — not to Betty, the blond girl next door, but to Veronica, the dark-haired beauty and Riverdale's rich girl.
Betty is pregnant with Archie's child, and in 25 years, he'll be crowned the Maple King, just like his dad.
Next, Maxim will receive credit for killing Pugachev, as he will go on a speaking tour announcing the cause of his death. Afterwards, he will be sent to a military school and learn the craft of war.
The problem is that Catherine's takeover of Russia has made Peter love her in a way that he can't quite express. And through their fighting, the chaos, and the attempted murder and coups, at the center of it is Peter actually falling in love with Catherine and not knowing what to do with those feelings.
While angsting about keeping this secret from Catherine, Peter inadvertently lets it slip to Elizabeth that her son Igor, whose death she has blamed herself for all these years, was murdered by his mother.
However, when the day of the coup came, Peter planned to kill Leo. When he failed, he instead captured Leo, later using his life as a pawn against Catherine. Catherine visited Leo one last time before she continued with the coup, sentencing him to death.
Peter knew it would all be over if Catherine ever discovered the truth… which of course, she does.
The ill-fated Tsar quickly angered crucial allies, including the Russian Orthodox church and the country's military class. With the help of her lover at the time, Grigory Orlov, Catherine plotted to overthrow her husband. In 1762, Catherine, a talented equestrian, lead a group of 14,000 soldiers to unseat her husband.
Catherine and Peter had two daughters, Elizabeth and Anna, who were born out of wedlock and later legitimized, and upon the Tsar's death a pro-commoner faction of government staged a coup to award the crown Peter's peasant wife as Tsarina Catherine I.
Her marriage was loveless, it was a partnership orchestrated for political reasons only. Catherine later claimed Peter was impotent and their child and heir apparent, Paul I, was actually the offspring of Saltykov.
One of them, Lady Svenska, had Marial beaten last episode, so in revenge, Catherine gifts her a dress and then invites her to a tent party where everything is upholstered in the exact same pattern as the dress (trust me, it was devastating). This will come to no good.