Russia's Last Tsar

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In tsarist Russia, Nicholas II had absolute power over his vast realm, yet he was helpless in the face of his son Alexei's life-threatening hemophilia. Enter Rasputin, a self-styled holy man whose apparent ability to heal the young heir to the throne won him the devotion of Empress Alexandra, to the dismay of practically everyone else. This program presents the wrenching drama of the collapse of the centuries-old Romanov dynasty-a story of abdication, imprisonment, and assassination-against the backdrop of a nation under unendurable stress: military disasters, economic collapse, widespread unrest, and the rampant spread of Bolshevism. The program ends by revealing the location of the tsar's lost grave, a mystery for decades solved at last
Last Tsar: Back from the Dead (2:13)
From Prince to Tsar (2:19)
Abdication of the Tsar (2:58)
Tsar's Family in Film and Photographs (2:44)
St. Petersburg (2:49)
Tsar Distant from the People (2:03)
Bloody Sunday (1:39)
Site of Romanov Murders (1:41)
Playful Tsar Turned Killer (2:41)
Tsar and Cossacks (2:16)
Ill-Equipped Royals (2:19)
Rasputin: Modern Sorcerer (2:50)
Discovery of Tsar's Grave (2:11)
1914: War! (3:13)
Alexandra and Rasputin (2:16)
Romanov Grave Desecrated (2:08)
Unrest and Rebellion (1:45)
Abdication of the Tsar (2:38)
Tsar and Family Imprisoned (1:32)
Assassination of the Romanovs (2:19)
Revived Interest in the Tsar (2:55)
Human Tragedy of Nicholas II (2:50)

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