Peter III

noun

1. 1728–62, czar of Russia 1762 (husband of Catherine II; father of Paul I).

Peter III

noun

1. 1728–62, grandson of Peter I and tsar of Russia (1762): deposed in a coup d'état led by his wife (later Catherine II); assassinated

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Justifying the multicultural casting in “Bridgerton,” a Regency-era fable, is simpler than explaining the presence of non-white nobles in Emperor Peter III’s Russia as depicted in “The Great.”

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Starring Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult and created and produced by Tony McNamara, “The Great” followed Catherine the Great — Russia’s longest-reigning empress from 1762 to 1796 — as she navigated her roller-coaster relationship with husband Peter III of Russia.

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Contrasting with these straightforward relationship sagas is the gleefully raunchy “The Great,” in which dewy-eyed Elle Fanning, as the titular Catherine the Great of Russia, realizes just minutes into her newly arranged life as empress to Nicholas Hoult’s Peter III — a randy, boundlessly crass, delusional sot — that “I am a prisoner here, married to an idiot.”

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Over three seasons as Catherine the Great and Peter III of Russia, the actors tangled with love, treachery and the rule of a nation.

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For three seasons on the anti-historical Hulu dramedy series, the Emmy-nominated actors, who first worked together in the 2014 sci-fi film “Young Ones,” have gone toe-to-toe as Empress Catherine the Great and Peter III of Russia.

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