In this episode: The Grand Embassy to England & Holland. The Streltsy Uprising of 1698. Demidov's plants & creation of a trained military. Establishment of Saint Petersburg.
In this episode: Battle of Poltava & Pruth River Campaign. Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich. New alphabet & calendar reform. Death of the emperor & establishment of the dynastic mausoleum.
In 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.
In 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.
In this episode: Friend of Voltaire. Potemkin villages. Alaska - Russian America. Partitioning of Poland. Journey from Petersburg to Moscow. Odessa.
Series 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.
Series 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.
Series 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.
Series Summary: Rise of the Decemberists, the accession of Nicholas I. Russian classics - Pushkin, Glinka, Bryullov. Russian-Persian war, the killing of Griboyedov. The first Russian Railways. All-powerful Russian bureaucracy. Anti-Russian uprising in Poland.
Series 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.
Series 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.
Series Summary: Hunt for king - the emergence of Russian terrorism. Petersburg of Dostoevsky. Russian-Turkish war. Wanderers and the "Mighty Handful". Romance with Catherine Dolgoruky. The murder of the king of March 1, 1881.
Series 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.
Series 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.
Short 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.
Series Summary: Gorky, Bunin, Chaliapin - "rulers of minds." "God-building and the search for God." World War I. Samsonovskaya disaster and Brusilov Offensive. The murder of Rasputin, February revolution, Lenin in Zurich, the abdication of Nicholas.
