The Romanovs: Glory and Fall Of The Tstars

The killing lasted 20 minutes. Tsar Nikolai II was the first to die – shot in the heart with a pistol at close range. Then the Bolsheviks shot his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, his daughters Olga, Tatyana, Maria, Anastasia, the heir apparent Alexei, and four employees of the royal family. The death of the Romanovs marked the end of a dynasty reaching back to the crowning of Michail Romanov in July 1613. The Tsars always ruled their huge empire with an iron fist – which in the end became their undoing. This docudrama presents never-before-seen archive footage, shot in awe-inspiring and newly-restored locations in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.