Directed by: Alexei Karelin. Cast: Anna Geller, Valery Kuhareshin, Igor Botvin, Natalia Surkova, Alexander PolyakovFavorites are not liked by their contemporaries. They are the objects of envy and ridicule, and their fates are forgotten. The ones Catherine took were people unknown to anyone, but with prominent families, certain of whom were in the benevolent empress' good graces and were long and generously rewarded. But during all the years of Catherine's reign, only one became her FAVORITE.
