Royal Inoculation
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View on VideBits →In 1768, in the midst of a severe smallpox epidemic that killed every tenth inhabitant of the country, Empress Catherine II decided to set a personal example to her subjects: together with her heir, Tsarevich Pavel, she was the first to be vaccinated against the terrible disease and declared vaccination mandatory for everyone — despite court intrigues, peasant riots and the impending war with Turkey, This decree must be implemented at all costs, otherwise the deadly virus will claim even more lives.
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Marco Dinelli · Yuriy Kuznetsov · Irina Pegova · Svetlana Smirnova-Katsagadzhieva · Evgeny Antropov · Anton Denisenko · Sergey Marin · Filipp Yankovsky · Mariya Paley