Russian Empire
Season 1
"Russian Empire" - making of this film took many weeks of filming in the capital and dozens of trips to the former and the present territory of the country. It shows very unique places the camera has never seen before: starting from the Polish countryside all the way to the roof of Peter the Great's Hermitage. All little German towns where all Russian empresses were born. Places of military glory of the Russian army - from Rome to Beirut - and places of national catastrophes - from Sevastopol to East Prussia. Historical anecdotes and authentic diaries, unknown documents and letters of the Elite of the Empire.
Where to Watch Season 1
16 Episodes
- Anna Ioannovna & Elizaveta Petrovna
E3Anna Ioannovna & Elizaveta PetrovnaIn this episode: Biron, Duke of Courland, a "favorite" of Empress Anna. The "Ice Palace" - cruelest jokes of the empress. Empress Elizabeth's coup d'état. Establishment of collegiate system. Lomonosov. Royal balls & masquerades. Most splendorous baroque - the Winter & Catherine palaces. Rastrelli. Seven Years' War. The Russian cossacks in Berlin. - Catherine the Great, Part 1
E4Catherine the Great, Part 1In this episode: Origins of Sophie Friederike Auguste, the future Catherine the Great, her arrival in Russia. Dethronement of her husband - Emperor Peter III. Creation of privileged noble ranks. Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova. Russo-Turkish wars, acquisition of the Crimea, storming of the Izmail fortress. Planting of potatoes in Russia. Catherine - the raising of her grandchildren. Favorites of the empress. Pugachev's Rebellion. - Paul I
E6Paul ISeries Summary: Gatchinskaya drill. Step honor guard. Box of complaints and suggestions. Three days of serfdom. Paul - Russian Father, Knight of Malta, the conciliator between Orthodox & Catholics. Suvorov Crossing the Alps - no great feat for Russia. Empress Maria Fedorovna - a German mother and Russian tsars. Playing cards for charitable purposes. Mikhailovsky Castle. Night of the murder of the emperor. The same Zubovskaya snuffbox, which according to legend, the church stopped. - Alexander I, Part 1
E7Alexander I, Part 1Series Summary: Entry to the throne - "days of Alexander's great start." Russia's participation in the coalition against Napoleon; the battle of Austerlitz; Peace of Tilsit. The war with Sweden, the annexation of Finland to Russia. Speransky - "the sun of Russian bureaucracy." free port regime in Odessa. The heyday of the Russian-American Company - Russian settlements in Alaska and California. - Alexander I, Part 2
E8Alexander I, Part 2Series Summary: The War of 1812. The Battle of Borodino, lease Moscow, the first guerrillas crossing the Berezina, Napoleon's expulsion from Russia. Foreign campaigns of the Russian army, the defeat of Napoleon, the capture of Paris and the occupation of France. Holy Alliance monarchs. Activities Arakcheeva and military settlements. Kingdom of Poland. Getting the Caucasian war - the longest in the history of the empire. Village Yarag-gazavat capital. New style empire - the Russian Empire. Reign of crisis, illness and death of Alexander I; the legend of the elder Fyodor Kuzmich. - Nicholas I, Part 2
E10Nicholas I, Part 2Series Summary: Creation of the gendarmerie - the Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Office. The triad "Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality." Russia's new national anthem "God Save the Tsar." The controversy "Westerners" and "Slavophiles." Caucasian war. Alexander Herzen and his "bell". The suppression of the Hungarian revolution. Official culture - sculptor Klodt, fabulist Krylov, architect Ton, painter Aivazovsky. Crimean War. - Alexander II, Part 1
E11Alexander II, Part 1Series Summary: The education of the future emperor. The end of the Caucasian War. The abolition of serfdom and other reforms. Details of the sale of Alaska. History of the journal "Contemporary". Accession of Central Asia. Russian chintz as the highest achievement of the domestic light industry. Vasily Vereshchagin - artist protest. - Alexander III
E13Alexander IIISeries Summary: Most Russian tsar. Anti-liberalism under Alexander. Alexander peacemaker. The economic rise of Alexander. Zemstva, the era of "small business". Railway boom in Russia, the collapse of the royal train, the construction of the Trans-Siberian. Artistic and musical tastes of Alexander. Death in Livadia. - Nicholas II, Part 1
E14Nicholas II, Part 1Series Summary: The Coronation, "Khodynka". Love and marriage to a German Princess Alice (Empress Alexandra Feodorovna). Industrialization and financial reform - the introduction of gold pieces. Russian-Japanese war. Leo Tolstoy - the mirror of the Russian revolution. Lenin in London, the second Party Congress. "Bloody Sunday", the revolution of 1905. - Nicholas II, Part 2E15
Nicholas II, Part 2Short series content: Russian political terrorism. First State Duma. Rasputin. Stolypin's reforms. Gorky and his Party School for workers on Capri. "Silver Age" of Russian culture - Symbolist poets, Russian Art, Russian Seasons in Paris. The murder of Stolypin, 1913th year - the last year of peace of the empire - the flourishing economy, 300 years of the Romanov house. Rising crime.
