Russia's Last Tsar - DVD
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Witness the wrenching story of the collapse of the Romanov dynasty. Nicholas II had absolute power over his vast realm, yet he was helpless in the face of his son's hemophilia. Enter Rasputin, a wild-living Siberian "holy man" whose apparent ability to heal the heir won him the loyalty of Empress Alexandra to the dismay of almost everyone else. The backdrop for this family melodrama was a nation under stress: military disasters, poverty
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- GenreDocumentaryDescriptionWitness the wrenching story of the collapse of the Romanov dynasty. Nicholas II had absolute power over his vast realm, yet he was helpless in the face of his son's hemophilia. Enter Rasputin, a wild-living Siberian "holy man" whose apparent ability to heal the heir won him the loyalty of Empress Alexandra to the dismay of almost everyone else. The backdrop for this family melodrama was a nation under stress: military disasters, povertyTitleRussia's Last Tsar - DVDFormatDVDMPAA RatingNRStudioNational Geographic
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