Caterina finds out that her husband Peter Tzar of Russia, is plotting to kill her. She sets Count Orlov free from prison, Peter's sworn enemy, becomes empress of Russia and leads the Cossacks army against him.

Cento milioni in cambio delle prove dell'esistenza di Dio: un'inchiesta tra la gente non gli consente di trovarle, ma il protagonista troverà Gesù Cristo in se stesso e otterrà lo stesso il compenso.

Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, religion, and--most of all--the omnipresence of hypocrisy.