Lucy looks at the beginning of the Romanovs' reign, from Mikhail to Peter the Great, the tsar d...
This programme at fall of Tsarism.
The story of Tsar Nicholas II's four daughters. As they grew up, the sisters attracted frenzied press attention and grew ...
The story of the dynasty that ruled Russia for more than three centuries. Lucy examines the reign ...
Rasputin: Writers, thinkers and historians explore the downfall and legacy of Rasputin, the Siberian peasant who rose from obscurity to...
The last four years of the sisters' lives saw war, revolution, imprisonment and murder.
Lucy investigates how the Romanov family's grip on Russia unravelled in their final century...
The impact of the October Revolution on Russia to the present.
In 1905, 150,000 workers protested at the winter palace and after a year of revolution, Nicholas II ins...
Lenin was the antidote to the Romanov rule and in 1917, his Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Pal...
After the hardships of WWI, the people were hungry and poor, and the soldiers refused to c...
Nicolas II's son was a haemophiliac, and despite being on deaths door, Rasputin was able to heal him.
Lucy explores how WWI influenced Nicolas II's leadership and encouraged Rasputin's fame to qu...
This program examines events marking the beginning and end of communism in Eastern Europe, including the executi...
The events of the October Revolution.
The assault on the Winter Palace.
Lucy describes Tsar Nicholas II's rise to power and how his faith and attention to detail distracted...
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