Lenin and Tsar Nicholas | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

Duration: 4'34''

Synopsis

Lenin was the antidote to the Romanov rule and in 1917, his Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace and took power. Shortly after Nicholas and his family were massacred.

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