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The past... it is a dangerous place.

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So many decisions that can't be undone.

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So many ghosts.

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In 1905, I accepted a job
with the Romanovs,

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Russia's royal family.

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I saw their incredible wealth.

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The palaces, the balls,

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the jewelry.

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And then I saw the madness.

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The revolution.

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It all ended here...

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in this house

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The richest family in the world,

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the Emperor and the Empress of Russia,
Nicholas and Alexandra...

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their five children...

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vanished...

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without a trace.

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Now there are rumors of a survivor...

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...a deeply troubled girl in Berlin
who claims to be Anastasia,

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the Romanovs' youngest daughter.

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It is my task to see
if she is telling the truth.

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I understand
they want you to identify her.

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I worked in the family for 13 years.

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I was the children's tutor.

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Please.

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Ana. You have a visitor.

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She has retrograde amnesia.

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Her memories are confused.

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It's a common symptom.

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Do you remember me?

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In 1894...

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Czar Alexander III died suddenly
at the age of 49.

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Russia was in shock.

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His heir, Nicholas, was just 26.

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Jesus, he's fucking rotting.

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Sh!

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You can't silence this, sweetheart,
they've botched the embalming.

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He stinks.

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She already looks like an empress.

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Let's just hope she's a good breeder.

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Are you all right?

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I'm sorry there's been no time for us.

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- Mother.
- Oh!

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- Ah, thank you, Alix.
- I'll take her outside.

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- I'll come.
- No, no. You stay.

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You'll be all right. I should go back.

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Nicky.

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I worry about you so.

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The wedding, on top of all this.

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The young Nicholas II
is quiet, indecisive,

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and very much living in the shadow

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of his great, imposing Grand Duke
Uncle Sergei.

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To be czar is to be...

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field martial, emperor,

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prime minister, all of these things,

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pope, all rolled into one.

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This is like a medieval monarchy

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where the czar has ultimate control
over everything.

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And what man in the world is qualified
for such a post?

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Get you through the next few hours, eh?

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What am I going to do, Sandro?

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I'm not ready to be czar.

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You were born for this.

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I can't run a country.

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I have so much more to learn.

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And who will teach me now?

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You don't need a teacher.

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Trust yourself. God chose you.

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Divine bloody right.

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The Russian Empire
that Nicholas II inherits

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is one of the largest empires
the world has ever seen.

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It was colossal,
it was a sixth of the world's surface.

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There were over 146 nationalities,
many languages.

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And the Romanovs have ruled Russia
for almost 300 years.

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Their wealth is beyond computation.

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An embarrassment of riches.

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Land, gold mines, diamond mines,

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the famous Fabergé eggs.

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There are palaces everywhere.

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Marrying into this world
is Alexandra of Hesse,

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a shy, religious girl

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brought up in a tiny German principality.

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Ow.

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If Catherine the Great wore them,
so can you.

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There.

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Smile, Sunny.

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Mother and father would have been
so proud of you.

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It's all right.

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It's been a hell of a few weeks.

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Are you sure it's not bad luck?

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Having the wedding
while we're all still mourning?

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The people say I come to them
behind a coffin.

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Well, that's not true.

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I don't know the customs of this country.

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I can't even speak Russian.

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I can help with that.

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I feel such an outsider.

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I was a foreign princess once.

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Head up.

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Neck straight.

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Carry the weight, proudly.

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Welcome.

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Czarina, and Empress of all Russia.

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Now, you're one of us.

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Alexandra of Hesse
is a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

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She is deeply religious,
and this obsession with religion

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plays a key role
in her marriage to Nicholas

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and in her role as Czarina of Russia.

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This marriage is unusual
as a Romanov marriage,

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and for a royal marriage in general
in this time period.

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And that's because
it's very much a love match.

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They're one
of the only royal couples in Europe

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that share a marital bed.

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Well, Mrs. Romanov.

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Got it.

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There.

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Sorry.

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You know, my father was a great leader.

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The people adored him.

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It's not the people I worry about.

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It's your family.

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You need to be strong.

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Hm.

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You're the Czar.

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Master of the land.

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The leader of all Russia.

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The god-given one.

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Nothing will ever come between us.

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Yah!

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Yah, yah!

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Come on.

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Come on.

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Yah, yah!

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You're either on my side...

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or in my fucking way.

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Rasputin is one of the most
remarkable figures of the 20th century.

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Okay, we can talk.

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But his background is sort of shrouded
in mist and and legend.

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Shit.

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His parents were farmers
and church elders.

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He was one of eight or nine siblings,

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but it would seem that all of them died
in his childhood.

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Rasputin, he drinks,
he fights with his father.

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He chases girls.

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But, above all...

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he's ungovernable. He's fearless.

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Quiet!

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The horse is safe.

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Back in his stable.

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I only borrowed it.

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You stole it!

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Thieves must be punished.

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Banish him!

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I don't want to be a thief.

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But we got to eat. Huh?

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You've got to eat. You need to eat.

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I did a bad thing.

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But I did it...

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for my wife...

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Mm?

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and my son.

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What do you want to do with him?

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Banish him!

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- Punish him!
- What about my family?

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You can't do this.

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Give me a chance, hm?

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Give me a chance.

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Send me on a pilgrimage, hm?

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Come on.

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This is my judgment:

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go on a pilgrimage, turn to God,

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but leave the village, now.

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Will you really go to the monastery?

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I don't know.

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I won't let you down. Promise.

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I love you.

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Rasputin's wife, Praskovya,
is a very long-suffering figure.

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It's hard to say
if Praskovya loves Rasputin or not.

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But she's a constant figure,
a supportive figure.

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When Rasputin picks up
and leaves home as a pilgrim in 1897...

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he enters what might be considered
his university.

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He sleeps out of doors,

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he becomes infinitely aware
of the beauty of the Russian landscape,

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of Russian life, of folk ways.

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He walked through all weathers,

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being soaked, being frozen,
being sunburnt.

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It was a really hard,
strange, lonely life.

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But one that got him closer to God.

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Away from the Siberian plains,

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Russia is changing ever faster.

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The telephone replaces the telegram,

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cars replace carriages,

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electric lights replace lamps.

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Nicholas becomes Czar
at the dawn of the modern age.

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Russia is industrializing
at breakneck speed,

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hundreds of thousands of workers
flock to the big cities,

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creating huge social change.

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They're building railways,
building factories.

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Conditions there are appalling,

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workers' rights are nonexistent.

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So there was a great hunger
for new political institutions.

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Nicholas' first speech as Czar

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is a great opportunity
for him to show

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what kind of ruler
he wants to be.

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In the early part of his reign,

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Uncle Sergei is probably
Nicky's most important advisor.

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He's very dogmatic, extremely right wing.

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He's highly religious.

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He's the ultimate Romanov hardliner.

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What Nicky is about to say is critical.

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He can either embrace democracy
and modernity like Western Europe,

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or he can choose to remain
an absolute monarch.

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I'm aware...

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that recently in some zemstvos...

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the people have been
carried away with senseless dreams

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of taking part
in the business of government.

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Let everyone know...

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that I will retain the principles
of autocracy...

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as firmly...

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and unbendingly...

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as my unforgettable late father.

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It's Sergei who tells him
to give the speech,

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and he encourages Nicholas
to embrace sacred autocracy

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as the only way to rule Russia.

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Good speech.

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It's a terrible mistake.
He stamps out any possibility of reform.

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By showing he has no intention

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of sharing power democratically,

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Nicholas lays the foundations
of his own demise.

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Rasputin visits various monasteries,

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including Verkhoturye,
which is one

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of the great
monasteries of Russia.

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And he meets with the monks,

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and he learns the gospels
practically by heart.

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And he becomes steeped
in Russian Orthodoxy.

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But there's too much control,

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there's too much
order, there's too much

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discipline,
there's too much routine.

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I can't find God here.

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Come with me.

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Rasputin is a free spirit,
and he seeks out some of the cults

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who have a different
and much more instinctive,

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and much more passionate
approach to religion.

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Be full of joy and gladness,
for Christ has risen!

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Be full of joy and gladness,
for Christ has risen!

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Be full of...

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Oh, God! We feel you!

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Oh, God! Oh, God!

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We feel your Spirit, God!

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We feel you!

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We feel your Spirit!

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We feel your spirit!

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The Khlysty,
which means "whips" in English,

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are one of the most notorious
of all Russian sects.

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They're illegal, they operate in secret,

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and they engage in all sorts
of wild orgiastic rites and rituals.

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There's even talk
that they cut off the breast of a virgin

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and eat it at the end of their rites.

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But there is a logic under lies it all.

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If one does not sin, one cannot repent.

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And without repenting,
one cannot be saved.

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And this suits Rasputin
right down to the ground.

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He's a man of enormous sexual appetite,
he's a heavy drinker,

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he loves women, and he adopts this idea

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00:22:41,725 --> 00:22:47,205
of sin leading to redemption
as the essence of his own faith.

266
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Rasputin has a true religious experience.

267
00:22:51,125 --> 00:22:54,565
And this launches him
into becoming a holy pilgrim,

268
00:22:54,645 --> 00:22:57,845
a new man imbued with religious fervor,

269
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traversing across vast expanses
of the empire for many years.

270
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For Nicky's coronation
at the Khodynka Field,

271
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people are invited to participate
in a public feast

272
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for anyone that wants to come.

273
00:23:40,205 --> 00:23:42,845
There will be food
and little commemorative gifts

274
00:23:42,925 --> 00:23:44,525
from the Czar to his people.

275
00:23:46,525 --> 00:23:49,965
The gifts include
a kerchief, a commemorative mug,

276
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sausage, gingerbread,
so it sounds

277
00:23:51,912 --> 00:23:54,045
wonderful to a regular
Russian peasant.

278
00:23:55,445 --> 00:23:57,725
They flocked to the field even before dawn

279
00:23:58,405 --> 00:24:02,405
and some even walked on foot from Siberia
in their Bass shoes.

280
00:24:21,445 --> 00:24:22,725
That's fine, I'm done.

281
00:24:24,205 --> 00:24:25,445
Looking good.

282
00:24:26,285 --> 00:24:27,525
Feeling shit.

283
00:24:29,245 --> 00:24:30,525
Couldn't sleep.

284
00:24:30,685 --> 00:24:34,085
You know, you're lucky, you'll never know
responsibility like mine.

285
00:24:34,285 --> 00:24:36,285
I'll never know money like yours either.

286
00:24:36,725 --> 00:24:37,725
Or power.

287
00:24:38,845 --> 00:24:39,845
Are you ready?

288
00:24:40,365 --> 00:24:42,125
As I'll ever be.

289
00:24:43,725 --> 00:24:46,805
- Are you?
- You wanted to see me?

290
00:24:47,525 --> 00:24:49,245
How are the plans for Khodynka?

291
00:24:49,685 --> 00:24:51,165
A fucking nightmare.

292
00:24:51,765 --> 00:24:56,645
Too many peasants in one place,
all wanting free food and drink.

293
00:24:57,125 --> 00:24:59,845
You should send more Cossacks
for crowd control.

294
00:24:59,925 --> 00:25:03,205
I don't want to waste time and money
on Cossacks.

295
00:25:04,885 --> 00:25:05,965
It will be fine.

296
00:25:09,925 --> 00:25:11,165
Do you want me to go after him?

297
00:25:12,325 --> 00:25:13,885
You'll only aggravate him.

298
00:25:13,965 --> 00:25:15,245
Isn't that the point?

299
00:25:21,685 --> 00:25:23,165
Today is about us.

300
00:25:31,365 --> 00:25:34,405
Uncle Sergei is in charge
of the public event

301
00:25:35,085 --> 00:25:39,765
and he really is expecting
2- 300,000 peasants.

302
00:25:42,365 --> 00:25:45,565
In fact, 800,000 peasants turn up.

303
00:25:48,805 --> 00:25:50,865
The problem is that
this feast has been

304
00:25:50,877 --> 00:25:52,845
very badly organized
by Uncle Sergei.

305
00:25:53,485 --> 00:25:56,285
The field has been torn apart
by military exercises,

306
00:25:56,365 --> 00:26:00,005
and only a few planks have been put down
to cover deep trenches.

307
00:26:00,925 --> 00:26:02,765
There are very few policemen
to keep security.

308
00:26:05,165 --> 00:26:07,845
The people in the stalls start panicking.

309
00:26:07,925 --> 00:26:11,725
They start hurling
those packages into the crowd.

310
00:26:15,645 --> 00:26:17,585
Everyone starts to
rush towards where

311
00:26:17,597 --> 00:26:19,805
they believe the
presents are being given.

312
00:26:21,845 --> 00:26:23,885
People start falling to the ground,

313
00:26:23,925 --> 00:26:26,925
human dominos,
other people trample upon them.

314
00:26:27,005 --> 00:26:28,925
This scene is horrible carnage.

315
00:26:45,605 --> 00:26:49,445
The coronation
of a Russian Czar was magnificent,

316
00:26:49,525 --> 00:26:54,325
majestic, jewel-infested, exquisite,
the cost was extraordinary.

317
00:26:55,125 --> 00:26:58,365
The rituals were complex and ancient.

318
00:26:59,645 --> 00:27:04,685
Everything was designed to project wealth,

319
00:27:04,765 --> 00:27:08,005
power and the glory of the dynasty.

320
00:27:10,125 --> 00:27:13,085
The coronation really defines the emperor

321
00:27:13,165 --> 00:27:16,645
as a ruler whose power comes from God.

322
00:27:16,725 --> 00:27:20,725
And Nicholas completely believes this
and embraces it.

323
00:27:36,125 --> 00:27:38,125
It doesn't mean anything.

324
00:27:58,645 --> 00:28:00,565
Oh, Lord, God of our fathers.

325
00:28:03,365 --> 00:28:07,205
You have chosen me
as sovereign and judge over your people.

326
00:28:08,765 --> 00:28:12,765
I confess to your inscrutable providence
in selecting me.

327
00:28:13,845 --> 00:28:17,285
Inspire and enlighten my path,

328
00:28:18,045 --> 00:28:21,405
and direct my actions
in this awe-inspiring mission.

329
00:28:24,925 --> 00:28:28,725
May the wisdom that descends always
from your throne...

330
00:28:32,845 --> 00:28:33,845
abide with me.

331
00:29:18,925 --> 00:29:20,005
How many dead?

332
00:29:22,245 --> 00:29:24,725
It is yet to be confirmed.

333
00:29:27,285 --> 00:29:28,525
A hundred?

334
00:29:31,805 --> 00:29:36,165
- More?
- As I say, it is yet to be confirmed.

335
00:29:37,565 --> 00:29:38,734
How many hundred?

336
00:29:38,746 --> 00:29:41,605
Unfortunately,
we are talking thousands...

337
00:29:41,685 --> 00:29:42,565
Thousands?

338
00:29:42,645 --> 00:29:46,085
It is yet to be confirmed.

339
00:29:46,165 --> 00:29:50,885
- We must cancel the celebrations.
- I would advise against that.

340
00:29:51,725 --> 00:29:54,085
But surely
we must acknowledge the tragedy.

341
00:29:55,725 --> 00:29:58,205
It is only a tragedy...

342
00:29:59,365 --> 00:30:01,365
if you make it one.

343
00:30:02,485 --> 00:30:07,365
Where you lead, others follow.

344
00:30:21,925 --> 00:30:25,205
2000, 3000 bodies of peasants

345
00:30:25,285 --> 00:30:27,262
lie on this coronation field,

346
00:30:27,274 --> 00:30:30,085
where soon there are
to be festivities,

347
00:30:30,165 --> 00:30:33,445
the Czar, the Grand Duke,
the Royal Family are to arrive.

348
00:30:44,725 --> 00:30:48,605
And some of the bodies,
they just pile into carts.

349
00:30:48,925 --> 00:30:52,205
So that as the royal family
are going out to the Khodynka field,

350
00:30:52,285 --> 00:30:55,285
they pass carriages where they think
the people are waving at them

351
00:30:55,365 --> 00:30:57,885
and suddenly, as they get close,
they realize

352
00:30:57,965 --> 00:31:00,965
that these are all dead people,
crushed to death.

353
00:31:03,045 --> 00:31:06,045
Nicky should have done
what a modern politician would do,

354
00:31:06,125 --> 00:31:08,805
go to all the hospitals, and be seen...

355
00:31:09,445 --> 00:31:11,885
to be visiting and showing love
for his people.

356
00:31:17,845 --> 00:31:20,110
What he, in fact,
does is to make a

357
00:31:20,122 --> 00:31:22,525
decision against
his better judgment,

358
00:31:22,605 --> 00:31:24,751
to go to the party
of the Marquis de

359
00:31:24,763 --> 00:31:26,805
Montebello,
the French ambassador.

360
00:31:59,645 --> 00:32:02,205
I can't. It's not right.

361
00:32:02,285 --> 00:32:04,805
Just this one,
then we'll have done our duty.

362
00:32:25,605 --> 00:32:27,365
This will come back to haunt us.

363
00:32:28,645 --> 00:32:32,005
There's no room for sentimentality
in politics.

364
00:32:32,565 --> 00:32:35,405
You should have sent more Cossacks
to manage the crowds.

365
00:32:36,805 --> 00:32:38,285
The people won't forgive him.

366
00:32:39,085 --> 00:32:40,325
Grow up.

367
00:32:42,445 --> 00:32:45,605
This blood will stain his reign.

368
00:32:50,685 --> 00:32:51,685
Fucking kids.

369
00:32:54,325 --> 00:32:56,165
In the first day of his reign,

370
00:32:56,245 --> 00:32:57,885
the Czar and his German wife

371
00:32:57,965 --> 00:32:59,685
were dancing and drinking,

372
00:32:59,765 --> 00:33:02,845
even as hundreds and thousands
of Muscovites had been killed.

373
00:33:03,365 --> 00:33:07,485
And from this point onwards,
he is known as Nicholas the Bloody.

374
00:33:08,605 --> 00:33:11,165
It's a disastrous beginning
to Nicholas' reign.

375
00:33:23,965 --> 00:33:24,965
Friend.

376
00:33:25,605 --> 00:33:27,765
Would you have food
and a bed for the night?

377
00:33:28,125 --> 00:33:29,685
- Of course.
- Thank you.

378
00:33:49,205 --> 00:33:51,925
Very nice, thank you.

379
00:34:44,165 --> 00:34:46,205
What's all this shaking, old man?

380
00:34:47,845 --> 00:34:48,845
Hm?

381
00:34:51,925 --> 00:34:53,205
Too many seasons.

382
00:34:56,245 --> 00:34:57,685
Hm.

383
00:35:05,965 --> 00:35:07,925
Feel God flow in you again.

384
00:35:09,245 --> 00:35:11,485
That's it.

385
00:35:12,845 --> 00:35:15,205
Breathe his spirit.

386
00:35:21,765 --> 00:35:22,765
Hm.

387
00:35:25,965 --> 00:35:27,965
Hm.

388
00:35:30,805 --> 00:35:32,285
Remember how they ran.

389
00:35:36,405 --> 00:35:38,005
The hills they climbed.

390
00:35:41,685 --> 00:35:43,285
It's all still there.

391
00:35:51,885 --> 00:35:53,045
Good.

392
00:35:54,165 --> 00:35:55,165
- Uh?
- Good.

393
00:36:00,925 --> 00:36:04,845
Rasputin becomes more and more
convinced of his own abilities,

394
00:36:04,925 --> 00:36:07,005
of his power as a healer...

395
00:36:08,645 --> 00:36:10,725
his insight into human nature.

396
00:36:33,205 --> 00:36:37,325
He's superb at getting close
to people. He has empathy.

397
00:36:37,405 --> 00:36:39,245
He has a feral charisma.

398
00:36:45,485 --> 00:36:47,245
And then he has those eyes.

399
00:36:47,725 --> 00:36:50,965
And he knows the effect that these eyes
have on people.

400
00:36:52,045 --> 00:36:53,045
Especially women.

401
00:37:03,445 --> 00:37:05,005
It's alright to sin.

402
00:37:14,525 --> 00:37:16,085
Brings us closer to God.

403
00:37:17,645 --> 00:37:21,525
How can you be redeemed
if you haven't sinned?

404
00:37:29,125 --> 00:37:32,805
He's a man who emits electricity
from his fingertips.

405
00:37:37,085 --> 00:37:40,365
His physical presence is something
that overwhelms people.

406
00:37:45,125 --> 00:37:47,605
And people are transfixed by this.

407
00:37:59,085 --> 00:38:02,885
By 1901,
Nicky and Alix have three daughters;

408
00:38:02,965 --> 00:38:07,325
Olga, Tatiana and Maria.
And when Alix gets pregnant again...

409
00:38:08,205 --> 00:38:12,685
...of course, everybody is longing
for the much-needed son and heir.

410
00:38:15,845 --> 00:38:17,525
Oh, Lord, forgive us our sins.

411
00:38:19,485 --> 00:38:21,205
May our prayers be answered.

412
00:38:21,285 --> 00:38:25,525
We thank you for our daughters,
but may you bless us now with a son.

413
00:38:26,925 --> 00:38:29,485
Push! Push it!

414
00:38:42,005 --> 00:38:44,485
Tell me.

415
00:38:44,725 --> 00:38:47,005
We have a beautiful, healthy baby.

416
00:38:48,085 --> 00:38:49,725
I'm sorry.

417
00:38:50,765 --> 00:38:52,885
Oh.

418
00:38:56,685 --> 00:38:59,645
A son would belong to the people.

419
00:39:02,805 --> 00:39:04,405
This little girl is ours.

420
00:39:08,205 --> 00:39:09,805
Hello, Anastasia.

421
00:39:11,445 --> 00:39:12,485
In Greek,

422
00:39:13,245 --> 00:39:17,165
the name Anastasia means,
"the one who is reborn."

423
00:39:20,045 --> 00:39:24,685
Now I had to ask
if she truly had been resurrected.

424
00:39:27,725 --> 00:39:29,085
The eyes are the same.

425
00:39:30,085 --> 00:39:31,325
But not the face.

426
00:39:32,165 --> 00:39:33,925
There may be good reasons for that.

427
00:39:34,845 --> 00:39:35,965
Her jaw's been broken.

428
00:39:37,325 --> 00:39:38,685
She has missing teeth.

429
00:39:39,765 --> 00:39:42,685
She's been through serious emotional
and physical trauma.

430
00:39:44,725 --> 00:39:47,525
I don't know if anyone
could have survived that massacre.

431
00:40:03,405 --> 00:40:05,365
One thing that is certain,

432
00:40:06,125 --> 00:40:10,165
is that the birth of Anastasia
was both a blessing and a curse.

433
00:40:11,445 --> 00:40:16,565
More than ever, Nicholas and Alexandra
needed a son and heir.

434
00:40:19,165 --> 00:40:20,605
Come back to bed.

435
00:40:24,445 --> 00:40:25,445
We need help.

436
00:40:25,965 --> 00:40:28,605
And their desperation would open a door...

437
00:40:28,925 --> 00:40:31,005
There must be something we can do.

438
00:40:31,685 --> 00:40:34,605
...to a darkness
that would destroy their world.

439
00:40:35,405 --> 00:40:36,685
There must be someone.

440
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:59,000
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