The Last Czars

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  1. The Chosen One

  45m

  Czar Nicholas II takes the Russian throne in 1894 and rejects modern ideas to embrace a pure autocracy. Tragedy marks his coronation day.

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  2. The Boy

  45m

  Russia’s disastrous war against Japan prompts civil unrest. Prince Alexei is diagnosed with hemophilia, and Siberian mystic Rasputin steps in.

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  3. Anarchy

  45m

  Rasputin’s influence grows. The Romanovs retreat into a bubble of luxury while the czar's forces brutally suppress protests by a starving populace.

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  4. War

  45m

  World War I takes Nicholas to the front. Back home, outrage grows over high casualties and Alexandra and Rasputin’s political intrigues.

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  5. Revolution

  45m

  Rasputin is gone, but Nicholas continues his catastrophic policies in war and at home. Deprivation pushes the population from unrest to revolution.

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  6. The House of Special Purpose

  45m

  The czar abdicates, and civil war erupts. As pro-royalist forces close in on the house where the Romanovs are imprisoned, the family's fate is sealed.

Cast

Robert Jack

Nicky

Oliver Dimsdale

Pierre

Samuel Collings

Sandro

Ben Cartwright

Rasputin

Elsie Bennett

Ella

Susanna Herbert

Alix