For three hundred years Russia was ruled by one family: the Romanovs.

But in just six short years, from 1916 to 1922 that all came crashing down as the country was transformed by a small band of dedicated Revolutionaries - The Communists - in a series of events that would shock and appal the wo...

On a cold winter's night in November 1905, The Tsar and Tsarina of Russia, Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna welcomed a visitor into their home - a man of god, a tall, striking figure who had been causing quite a stir amongst the upper echelons of Russian society.

That man was Rasputin.

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He dominated the 20th century like no other, his shadow still hanging over the continent 70 years after his death.

But how did a choir boy from provincial Georgia rise to become the most powerful man in Russia? And what was his role in shaping the revolution that swept aside the Romanov's and b...

In the fourth and final episode we return to a city transformed. Petrograd, formerly Saint Petersburg is in the hands of the provisional government, whilst the Tsar and his family are confined to the Winter Palace.

Meanwhile, the hugely unpopular war rages on and hunger and poverty continue to c...