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The ERA Video Streaming Platform | History | Russia and the USSR

Tsarist rule and the 1917 revolutions

03: Smashing the Mould | The Art of Russia

03: Smashing the Mould | The Art of Russia

Art and Design | BBC Four | 2009 | 58'35''

Andrew Graham-Dixon tells the story of Russian art. He examines political revolution and how art was at the forefront of throwing ...

02: Roads to Revolution | The Art of Russia

02: Roads to Revolution | The Art of Russia

Art and Design | BBC Four | 2009 | 59'12''

Andrew Graham-Dixon follows the history of Russian art. Here, he looks at how art was affected by Russia's change from a feudal n...

01: Out of the Forest | The Art of Russia

01: Out of the Forest | The Art of Russia

Art and Design | BBC Four | 2009 | 59'32''

Critic Andrew Graham-Dixon tells the story of Russian art. He explores the origins of the Russian icon and visits a monastery found...

02: The World Turned Upside Down | Russia’s Lost Princesses

02: The World Turned Upside Down | Russia’s Lost Princesses

History | BBC Two | 2014 | 58'50''

The last four years of the sisters' lives saw war, revolution, imprisonment and murder.

01: The Gilded Cage | Russia’s Lost Princesses

01: The Gilded Cage | Russia’s Lost Princesses

History | BBC Two | 2014 | 58'52''

The story of Tsar Nicholas II's four daughters. As they grew up, the sisters attracted frenzied press attention and grew...

Nicholas’ abdication | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

Nicholas’ abdication | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Four | 2016 | 4'58''

After the hardships of WWI, the people were hungry and poor, and the soldiers refused to c...

Rasputin’s demise | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

Rasputin’s demise | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Four | 2016 | 4'34''

Lucy explores how WWI influenced Nicolas II's leadership and encouraged Rasputin's fame to qu...

Rasputin | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

Rasputin | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

History | BBC Four | 2016 | 2'52''

Nicolas II's son was a haemophiliac, and despite being on deaths door, Rasputin was able to heal him.

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

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

History | BBC Four | 2016 | 4'19''

Lucy describes Tsar Nicholas II's rise to power and how his faith and attention to detail distracted...

The October Revolution | Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

The October Revolution | Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

History | BBC Two | 2017 | 6'36''

The events of the October Revolution.

03: The Road to Revolution | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

03: The Road to Revolution | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

History | BBC Four | 2016 | 58'49''

Lucy investigates how the Romanov family's grip on Russia unravelled in their final centur...

02: Age of Extremes | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

02: Age of Extremes | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

History | BBC Four | 2016 | 59'00''

The story of the dynasty that ruled Russia for more than three centuries. Lucy examines the reign...

01: Reinventing Russia | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

01: Reinventing Russia | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

History | BBC Four | 2016 | 58'58''

Lucy looks at the beginning of the Romanovs' reign, from Mikhail to Peter the Great, the tsar ...

S01E05: The Murder of the Romanovs | Days That Shook the World

S01E05: The Murder of the Romanovs | Days That Shook the World

History | BBC Two | 2003 | 29'42''

This program examines events marking the beginning and end of communism in Eastern Europe, including the execu...

The Soviets: 01: The Fall of Tsarism | History File

The Soviets: 01: The Fall of Tsarism | History File

History | BBC Two | 1999 | 23'57''

This programme at fall of Tsarism.

02: Rasputin | The Last Days of…

02: Rasputin | The Last Days of…

History | Channel 5 | 2015 | 44'41''

Rasputin: Writers, thinkers and historians explore the downfall and legacy of Rasputin, the Siberian peasant who rose from obscurity t...

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

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

History | BBC Four | 2016 | 4'34''

Lenin was the antidote to the Romanov rule and in 1917, his Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Pal...

Bloody Sunday | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

Bloody Sunday | Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley

History | BBC Four | 2016 | 4'37''

In 1905, 150,000 workers protested at the winter palace and after a year of revolution, Nicholas II ins...

After the revolution | Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

After the revolution | Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

History | BBC Two | 2017 | 4'01''

The impact of the October Revolution on Russia to the present.

The Winter Palace | Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

The Winter Palace | Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

History | BBC Two | 2017 | 2'52''

The assault on the Winter Palace.

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