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A young woman,
alone and deeply traumatized,

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makes her way to the Landwehr Canal.

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She has no money. No possessions.

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But she has an incredible claim.

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This woman says she is Anastasia,

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the youngest daughter
of Russia?s last Czar.

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

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Where did she get these?

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The Von Kleist family.
They put her up for a while.

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They believe that she?s Anastasia.

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They were trying to prompt her memories.

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When did you get this?

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A patient at the Dalldorf asylum
gave it to her.

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After that, she started saying
that she is Anastasia Romanov.

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Did you do this?

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I hope never to see him again.

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Did you ever meet him, the mad monk?

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Only once.

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That was enough.

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The monk had a very special place

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in the Romanov household

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because of the boy?s haemophilia.

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He could do something
no one else could do...

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Calm the boy and stop the bleeding.

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The way Rasputin heals Alexei

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is very mysterious.

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But the actual secret lies in Alexandra.

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Alexandra believes

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that Rasputin is sent to her by God.

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His confidence calms Alexandra.

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And in turn, that soothes Alexei.

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It?s all right. Come in.

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I?m a simple peasant.

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To be here...

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I am honored that you trust me.

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He gets sick.

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I can?t think...

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...or feel.

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I don?t know who I am.

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You are his mother.

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You're also keeping the biggest secret
in Russia.

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It is the burden you must carry.

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But now...

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...now it is mine as well.

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Rasputin?s timing,
when he meets the royal couple,

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could not be better.

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It?s the revolutionary year of 1905.

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Nicholas and Alexandra live
in a gilded cage.

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Rasputin is this amazing,
calming influence.

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Alexandra believes...

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that when he speaks,
he speaks the word of God.

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Alexandra doesn?t want
very many people to know

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that Alexei is ill
and that he has haemophilia.

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And this is what really puts them
in the position

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to start listening to Rasputin,

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who claimed to be able to cure Alexei.

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Girls.

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Hey.

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Father Grigori.

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Let?s take a walk.

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No one knew what was wrong with Alexei,

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they knew something was wrong,
but didn?t know what.

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And much of Nicky and Alix?s behavior
was inexplicable

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unless you knew this terrible secret.

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It?s a really, really dangerous moment

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and potentially catastrophic
for the dynasty.

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Your visits are causing quite a stir.

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Mm.

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But I don?t care.

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I need you here.

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Unless you have other responsibilities?

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My family in Siberia.

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I?ll make sure they?re looked after.

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You are the only one
that can protect Alexei.

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Nothing else matters.

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The Romanovs don?t understand

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what is truly happening
outside the palace walls,

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just how much anti-imperial sentiment
is brewing out there.

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After Bloody Sunday,

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and the disastrous war with Japan,

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Russia is in open revolt.

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Nicholas shows himself to be bloody

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and absolutely merciless

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in suppressing the revolution,

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and something like 15,000 people
are killed...

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Fire!

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...with Nicholas encouraging
every piece of cruelty.

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There are parts of the country

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that the army has to literally reconquer
by force of arms...

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...killing thousands and thousands
of innocent civilians.

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And Nicholas believes
that Jews are

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one of the biggest
problems in Russia,

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and that most Russian problems,
including economic inflation

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and other challenges,
are caused by Jewish conspiracies.

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Anti-semitism had been
a growing fetish in the Romanov family

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during the nineteenth century,
and Nicky embraced it totally.

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But this brought him
into conflict with

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his prime minister,
Peter Stolypin,

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who was a great hope of the dynasty.

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You can?t resign.

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You ordered me to take this job, sir,
you cannot order me to stay.

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What would it take to persuade you?

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Respect.

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You ignored my plea
to stop the violence in the streets.

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And now I learn you are funding
violent pogroms against the Jews.

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I am doing what needs to be done.

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They are being murdered in their hundreds.

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They are terrorists, they throw bombs.

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Maybe if I was forced to live like them,
I would throw bombs too.

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Soldiers are mutinying
in Krondstadt.

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Workers are striking again
in St. Petersburg.

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The peasants are in open revolt.

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And this will happen again and again,

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we deal with the cause.

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Which is?

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Russia needs to change.

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It has changed.

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I gave them the Duma!

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What more can I do?

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Reform.

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Give the people what they want.

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Food to eat, land to grow crops on...

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education.

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Father Grigori says the people will
follow their Tsar forever.

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You trust him?

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He?s a peasant.

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He understands them.

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Sir, the people are changing.

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If we do not change too,
they will rise up again.

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Stolypin could be the man

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to save the Romanov dynasty.

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He certainly had the talents to do so.

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He had a vision
of creating a strong monarchy

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based on a popular foundation.

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But Nicholas and Stolypin agree

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that they must suppress
the revolution ruthlessly,

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and that made his job
as reformer-in-chief

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an extremely dangerous one.

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We are making real progress in purging
this terror.

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They even have a nickname
for the hangman?s noose...

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"Stolypin?s Necktie".

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Now, we must win the people back.

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Fight just as hard for reform,
for our children,

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for the next generation...

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My daughter, Natalya.
I?m coming, I?m coming now.

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The next generation are depending
on us to fix...

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- Go, go.
- ...this blood-stained country.

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We cannot let... Ha!

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The entire façade of Stolypin's dacha

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falls in this huge explosion

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and dozens of guests are killed.

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Stolypin's own daughter
is terribly injured.

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The crackdown that follows
is incredibly brutal.

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We must fight this anarchy,

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and create a great Russia!

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Reunited, reformed, and reborn!

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So, for those who think
they can paralyze this government,

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I have two words for you...

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Not afraid!

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Stolypin understands the problems

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and the scale of the problems
facing Russia.

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He has ideas for how to solve them.

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But doesn't have Nicholas? full backing,

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partly because Nicholas is listening
to Rasputin in the background.

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What the...

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How dare... how dare you?

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How dare you? How dare you?

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Who sent you?

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Who sent you here?

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The Czar.

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No!

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You stay the hell away
from my daughter.

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Stay away.

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Stolypin is horrified
by the rise of Rasputin.

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He realizes that Rasputin is developing
some rather serious influence

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throughout the court

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and actual political power
through his influence on the royal family.

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I don?t understand.

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Why risk a scandal in the royal household?

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Do some digging, will you?

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Quietly.

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Find out what Rasputin wants.

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The fight between Stolypin and Rasputin

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is a battle for Nicholas? soul.

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And it?s also a battle
for influence over his decision-making.

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Remember, that at this point,

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the Czarevich?s disease
is still secret.

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Grigori, for
centuries, the church

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has been there for
the Romanov family.

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So, that when the Czar finds comfort
in someone new,

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we need to be sure that we?re all...

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on the same page.

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I'll listen to their prayers.

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That?s all.

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Bullshit! You will listen to me.

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Or I will send you back
to the nothing you came from.

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Then we?ll see
who the Czar truly relies on.

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And I will tell you now,
it?s not some filthy starets.

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Hm!

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Are you sure about that?

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Over the next five years,

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Rasputin establishes himself
as a bit of a guru

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in Saint Petersburg?s high society,

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he?s a kind of priest,
counselor, confidant.

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Most of his followers were women

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and they were
absolutely captivated by

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his very straightforward
personality,

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his hypnotic powers,
his ability to understand them,

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to listen to them, to caress them.

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All the while,
Empress Alexandra is

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becoming ever more
dependent on him

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and particularly,
on his care of their young son.

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Words fail me, Father.

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When I think of all you have done,

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the joy you bring to our family,

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I cannot begin to thank you.

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Words are what I need most, Father.

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Your words, of reason and calm.

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And I need to hear them every single day.

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What a beautiful morning! Ah?

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And what stunning, stunning ladies!

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Does your husband know you?re here,
Mrs. Semenov?

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Countess.

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Mrs. Kuznetsov is most excited
about your proposal.

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She?ll be along shortly.

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Hello.

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So, first in the queue.

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Rasputin?s sexual appetite is legendary.

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He becomes this, kind of a...
leader of a sex cult, almost,

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in Petersburg during that time.

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It started with headaches, er...

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I just feel so tense all the time.

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My doctor says it?s common hysteria.

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Well, there's nothing common about it.

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But also...

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nothing I can?t heal.

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Please.

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Then let God in.

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Let him purge your soul.

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Cleanse you.

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Use temptation.

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Let his heat warm your bones
and charge your blood.

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Hold yourself. Feel God.

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And let his love enter you.

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Push inside you.

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Fill you.

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Let the spirit move through you.

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I love you.

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You love God.

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Am I shameful?

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No.

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God never degrades. He only purifies.

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God has moved in you.

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And he moves in me too.

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I can feel him, can you feel him?

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Once he moves
through the society ladies in Petersburg,

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Rasputin is an extremely
dangerous person

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for the prestige of
the Romanov House.

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Stolypin thinks
of course Nicholas will see sense

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and get rid of Rasputin.

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But we?re not really dealing
in the realm of reason here.

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Nicholas and Alexandra
are incapable of understanding

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00:21:05,325 --> 00:21:08,965
the degree to which their private life
is a public matter.

264
00:21:15,485 --> 00:21:16,885
Are you sick?

265
00:21:22,525 --> 00:21:23,765
Just from worry.

266
00:21:28,645 --> 00:21:30,968
Sometimes I think the only thing

267
00:21:30,980 --> 00:21:34,045
between me, Nicky,
and sheer oblivion...

268
00:21:36,685 --> 00:21:38,045
...is you.

269
00:21:45,925 --> 00:21:48,245
There had long been rumors

270
00:21:48,325 --> 00:21:51,685
that not only was Rasputin a lewd figure,

271
00:21:51,765 --> 00:21:54,445
who had all sorts of affairs and,
you know,

272
00:21:54,525 --> 00:21:57,205
acted in all sorts of inappropriate ways
with women,

273
00:21:57,285 --> 00:22:00,245
but that he was having
an affair with the Czarina herself.

274
00:22:01,405 --> 00:22:03,725
Our Father,

275
00:22:04,765 --> 00:22:07,245
who art in heaven...

276
00:22:09,125 --> 00:22:12,005
Hallowed be thy name.

277
00:22:16,045 --> 00:22:17,605
Thy kingdom come...

278
00:22:21,565 --> 00:22:23,165
thy will be done...

279
00:22:28,925 --> 00:22:31,005
on Earth as it is in Heaven.

280
00:22:39,245 --> 00:22:43,565
Give us this day... our daily bread.

281
00:22:51,245 --> 00:22:53,885
And forgive us our trespasses.

282
00:23:16,885 --> 00:23:20,845
Rasputin wields enormous power
over Alexandra,

283
00:23:20,925 --> 00:23:22,925
but there?s no way he uses this

284
00:23:23,045 --> 00:23:25,165
to begin some sort of sexual relationship.

285
00:23:26,845 --> 00:23:29,645
It is a profoundly, if you will,

286
00:23:29,725 --> 00:23:31,605
spiritual sort of relationship,

287
00:23:31,685 --> 00:23:35,725
without a physical quality to it,

288
00:23:35,885 --> 00:23:38,405
other than a sense of tenderness.

289
00:23:41,325 --> 00:23:46,485
Their relationship had become one where
she depended on him,

290
00:23:46,565 --> 00:23:50,405
much like one might depend
on a psychiatrist or a counsellor today.

291
00:23:54,485 --> 00:23:58,205
Father Grigori, how can I ever thank you
for what you have done?

292
00:24:07,885 --> 00:24:09,045
Again!

293
00:24:10,485 --> 00:24:12,045
Again! Ah!

294
00:24:14,325 --> 00:24:16,805
My heart aches to see you again.

295
00:24:20,445 --> 00:24:22,165
To fall asleep on your shoulder.

296
00:24:30,045 --> 00:24:32,005
I know I have sinned many times.

297
00:24:34,685 --> 00:24:35,805
I am weak.

298
00:24:40,685 --> 00:24:41,885
But don?t abandon me.

299
00:24:44,485 --> 00:24:47,045
I love you and believe in you.

300
00:24:47,125 --> 00:24:50,445
And I kiss you warmly.
I am your child. Alix.

301
00:24:57,365 --> 00:25:00,605
There is every risk,
as he continues his hedonistic behavior,

302
00:25:01,005 --> 00:25:02,685
that this will cause a scandal.

303
00:25:05,365 --> 00:25:06,805
You had the police follow him?

304
00:25:06,885 --> 00:25:10,925
In his village, he was charged with theft
and blasphemy.

305
00:25:11,485 --> 00:25:14,299
That file details
several accusations

306
00:25:14,311 --> 00:25:16,765
of sexual assault and even rape.

307
00:25:16,845 --> 00:25:18,525
All lies to discredit him.

308
00:25:19,005 --> 00:25:23,165
I saw his filthy hands
grope my own daughter!

309
00:25:24,925 --> 00:25:29,765
I?m concerned
he is comforting your wife, sir.

310
00:25:36,085 --> 00:25:39,805
I would rather have ten Rasputins
than one of my wife?s episodes.

311
00:25:44,005 --> 00:25:45,605
Don?t you see?

312
00:25:48,205 --> 00:25:50,365
His presence here is damaging you.

313
00:25:52,685 --> 00:25:55,125
It is rumored he?s her lover.

314
00:25:55,205 --> 00:25:57,365
Well, they can say what they like.

315
00:25:57,725 --> 00:25:58,885
I know the truth!

316
00:26:13,445 --> 00:26:14,445
Please.

317
00:26:16,565 --> 00:26:18,005
Meet with him.

318
00:26:19,925 --> 00:26:21,645
Give him another chance.

319
00:26:25,965 --> 00:26:30,925
In many ways, what we have here,
is statesmanship facing faith.

320
00:26:31,005 --> 00:26:33,365
This is a battle for Nicholas? mind.

321
00:26:35,965 --> 00:26:38,365
These accusations are totally false.

322
00:26:39,765 --> 00:26:41,445
I am a simple holy man.

323
00:26:43,365 --> 00:26:48,365
From what I hear,
you are neither simple nor holy.

324
00:26:50,885 --> 00:26:52,845
I talk and I listen.

325
00:26:53,965 --> 00:26:54,965
That?s all.

326
00:26:55,205 --> 00:26:56,805
Well, listen to me,

327
00:26:58,525 --> 00:27:00,205
for the sake of Russia,

328
00:27:02,205 --> 00:27:05,485
you need to leave the Czar
and his family alone.

329
00:27:08,165 --> 00:27:10,565
I knew a man like you back in my village,

330
00:27:11,365 --> 00:27:12,685
a magistrate.

331
00:27:14,565 --> 00:27:15,565
We did not get on.

332
00:27:15,645 --> 00:27:17,525
What did you do? Fuck his wife?

333
00:27:19,365 --> 00:27:20,885
We had a clash of faiths.

334
00:27:21,405 --> 00:27:23,045
You...

335
00:27:26,685 --> 00:27:29,805
Fucking vermin.

336
00:27:32,005 --> 00:27:34,045
You will leave this city

337
00:27:34,645 --> 00:27:36,005
in 48 hours,

338
00:27:36,965 --> 00:27:38,965
or I shall have you arrested.

339
00:27:40,245 --> 00:27:42,965
This, priest.

340
00:27:44,205 --> 00:27:46,445
This is power.

341
00:27:51,845 --> 00:27:54,045
Only God knows what real power is.

342
00:27:59,045 --> 00:28:02,765
And death rides with you.

343
00:28:08,725 --> 00:28:11,645
Stolypin is, in many ways,
a reasonable man,

344
00:28:11,725 --> 00:28:13,725
who sees the state of things in Russia.

345
00:28:15,605 --> 00:28:17,613
To this day,
many people believe Stolypin

346
00:28:17,625 --> 00:28:19,645
was the last hope of
the Romanov Dynasty.

347
00:28:22,005 --> 00:28:24,765
We?ll never know
because he is not around long enough.

348
00:28:30,965 --> 00:28:32,645
You get Stolypin here.

349
00:28:34,085 --> 00:28:35,645
You make him reverse the order.

350
00:28:37,045 --> 00:28:38,685
And then you fire him.

351
00:28:40,285 --> 00:28:41,285
What for?

352
00:28:42,205 --> 00:28:44,085
Insulting our friend.

353
00:28:45,165 --> 00:28:47,125
I can?t fire him, Sunny.

354
00:28:47,885 --> 00:28:50,325
He is the most capable prime minister
I?ve had.

355
00:28:52,365 --> 00:28:53,365
I need him.

356
00:28:56,565 --> 00:29:01,245
And our son needs Grigori.

357
00:29:44,605 --> 00:29:47,245
Long live anarchy!

358
00:29:50,045 --> 00:29:52,165
Get a doctor! Go!

359
00:30:02,445 --> 00:30:04,525
Happy to die for the Czar.

360
00:30:06,805 --> 00:30:08,445
Someone!

361
00:30:09,565 --> 00:30:13,565
And death rides with you.

362
00:30:13,645 --> 00:30:18,725
After Stolypin is shot
in the Kiev Opera in 1911,

363
00:30:18,805 --> 00:30:21,645
he still fights for his life
for three more days.

364
00:30:22,245 --> 00:30:26,205
When he finally dies,
it means not only the end to the reforms,

365
00:30:26,725 --> 00:30:29,075
but also, the fact that Rasputin

366
00:30:29,087 --> 00:30:31,965
will gain more
influence on the Czar.

367
00:30:51,925 --> 00:30:53,845
Your Reverence...

368
00:30:57,045 --> 00:31:00,205
I do find these meetings
a little inconvenient.

369
00:31:01,925 --> 00:31:02,925
What do you need?

370
00:31:03,765 --> 00:31:06,645
There?s a dramatic confrontation

371
00:31:07,205 --> 00:31:10,885
between Germogen, Iliodor,
and Rasputin

372
00:31:10,965 --> 00:31:13,485
that takes place in Petersburg
at the end of 1911.

373
00:31:14,125 --> 00:31:17,965
They have decided this is their moment
to bring Rasputin down.

374
00:31:19,445 --> 00:31:25,085
Our meetings with the Czar have been
a little irregular lately.

375
00:31:26,005 --> 00:31:27,605
We were wondering...

376
00:31:28,805 --> 00:31:30,725
Shall I tell you what you really need?

377
00:31:32,525 --> 00:31:35,645
You need to start treating the Czar
like your divine leader,

378
00:31:36,285 --> 00:31:37,725
not a cash register.

379
00:31:41,765 --> 00:31:45,085
You need to start treating the Empress
like a goddess,

380
00:31:46,005 --> 00:31:47,485
not a source of gossip.

381
00:31:49,485 --> 00:31:53,005
But mainly,
you need to start treating me...

382
00:31:54,245 --> 00:31:56,045
with some fucking respect.

383
00:32:04,005 --> 00:32:06,005
You were nothing without us.

384
00:32:06,885 --> 00:32:10,965
And, as God is my witness,
you will be nothing again.

385
00:32:16,365 --> 00:32:19,005
Get the fuck off me!

386
00:32:35,725 --> 00:32:38,965
Unfortunately for Rasputin,
Iliodor sees these letters.

387
00:32:39,165 --> 00:32:42,645
And he then uses them as a weapon
to get back at Rasputin

388
00:32:42,725 --> 00:32:44,525
and leaks them to the public.

389
00:33:05,445 --> 00:33:08,165
These letters seem
to suggest a deep affection

390
00:33:08,245 --> 00:33:11,605
between Alexandra and Rasputin,
and depending on how we read them,

391
00:33:11,685 --> 00:33:15,645
they could be read as the letters
of one lover to another lover.

392
00:33:16,045 --> 00:33:19,005
"My heart aches to see you again..."

393
00:33:19,085 --> 00:33:21,525
"To fall asleep on your shoulder."

394
00:33:22,605 --> 00:33:26,365
The exposure of the intimacy
of the relationship with Rasputin

395
00:33:26,445 --> 00:33:30,245
exposes the family itself,
and what was really happening

396
00:33:30,325 --> 00:33:32,645
inside Nicholas and Alexandra?s court.

397
00:33:32,725 --> 00:33:34,685
And it isn?t a pretty sight.

398
00:33:35,605 --> 00:33:40,965
"I know I have sinned
many times, that I am weak."

399
00:33:52,045 --> 00:33:56,965
"I kiss you warmly.
I am your child. Alix."

400
00:33:57,205 --> 00:33:58,325
Jesus Christ, Nicky!

401
00:33:58,605 --> 00:33:59,925
Is she actually an idiot?

402
00:34:00,005 --> 00:34:02,005
Or does she want to bring down
the whole dynasty?

403
00:34:03,765 --> 00:34:06,365
It?s... regrettable.

404
00:34:08,365 --> 00:34:09,365
No, Nicky!

405
00:34:09,845 --> 00:34:12,205
Losing one?s umbrella is regrettable!

406
00:34:12,885 --> 00:34:14,539
This is the Empress
of all Russia

407
00:34:14,551 --> 00:34:16,365
doing God knows
what with a vagrant!

408
00:34:16,805 --> 00:34:20,165
We don?t just regret this kind of thing,
we burn for it!

409
00:34:21,125 --> 00:34:22,125
Oh!

410
00:34:57,005 --> 00:35:01,605
They?ve twisted everything.

411
00:35:06,005 --> 00:35:07,005
I know that.

412
00:35:08,605 --> 00:35:10,525
The problem is no-one else does.

413
00:35:11,285 --> 00:35:14,525
The people will never stop loving you.

414
00:35:15,045 --> 00:35:17,125
The people will never forget this.

415
00:35:19,525 --> 00:35:20,845
We are humiliated.

416
00:35:20,925 --> 00:35:22,565
And so is he!

417
00:35:25,165 --> 00:35:26,685
Don?t you understand?

418
00:35:27,525 --> 00:35:30,405
He is hated because we love him.

419
00:35:36,205 --> 00:35:38,325
What will happen next time Alexei bleeds?

420
00:35:40,085 --> 00:35:41,765
Who will help us then?

421
00:35:42,005 --> 00:35:43,045
Nicky!

422
00:35:46,645 --> 00:35:47,645
Please.

423
00:35:58,005 --> 00:36:01,005
It?s for the good of Russia that he stays.

424
00:36:06,165 --> 00:36:07,165
Look at it.

425
00:36:08,325 --> 00:36:11,485
It is precisely for that reason
he has to leave.

426
00:36:35,565 --> 00:36:36,805
What?s happened?

427
00:36:40,045 --> 00:36:41,045
What have you done?

428
00:36:49,165 --> 00:36:51,045
I thought the Czarina needed you.

429
00:36:53,525 --> 00:36:54,565
She does.

430
00:36:56,205 --> 00:36:57,765
And she will do again.

431
00:37:22,005 --> 00:37:24,765
Alexei, careful.

432
00:37:26,245 --> 00:37:28,005
Anastasia, stop.

433
00:37:32,005 --> 00:37:33,005
Why not?

434
00:37:33,045 --> 00:37:34,045
Because I want it.

435
00:37:34,125 --> 00:37:36,045
It's mine.

436
00:37:36,125 --> 00:37:38,125
No, it's not, it's mine.

437
00:37:41,125 --> 00:37:44,165
Mama, Anastasia and Maria
are fighting again.

438
00:37:44,245 --> 00:37:47,205
- You have to learn to share.
- Anastasia, Maria, please.

439
00:37:48,845 --> 00:37:51,565
Alexei... Alexei!

440
00:37:55,325 --> 00:37:59,165
As a haemophiliac, any bruise, any fall,

441
00:37:59,245 --> 00:38:01,925
any bump can lead to a bleed that is,

442
00:38:02,005 --> 00:38:03,765
first of all, agonizing.

443
00:38:04,325 --> 00:38:08,245
But also, these can lead to death,
and a terrible death too.

444
00:38:08,645 --> 00:38:11,965
This is a nightmare scenario
for Nicky and Alix...

445
00:38:12,165 --> 00:38:13,645
I?m dying, aren?t I?

446
00:38:13,725 --> 00:38:16,285
...and puts the dynasty in danger.

447
00:38:17,005 --> 00:38:19,125
No, my darling, you?re fine.

448
00:38:19,805 --> 00:38:22,165
Promise it won?t hurt anymore.

449
00:38:35,885 --> 00:38:37,645
HAEMOPHILIA

450
00:38:44,805 --> 00:38:47,085
Your son is seriously ill

451
00:38:49,085 --> 00:38:50,205
and you?re working.

452
00:38:53,125 --> 00:38:54,325
It?s a medical bulletin.

453
00:38:54,405 --> 00:38:56,765
The people need to be told
if the Csarevich...

454
00:39:00,005 --> 00:39:01,565
If you?re going to do anything,

455
00:39:02,805 --> 00:39:06,725
then think about the fact
that you sent away the only man

456
00:39:06,805 --> 00:39:09,165
in the world who could save our son.

457
00:39:20,645 --> 00:39:23,085
Get him here, any way you can.

458
00:39:36,325 --> 00:39:38,125
Wait there.

459
00:39:38,205 --> 00:39:39,925
I'll need to send one back.

460
00:39:40,005 --> 00:39:43,845
I personally believe
that he absolutely believed in himself,

461
00:39:44,405 --> 00:39:47,365
and that that belief was convincing
to everybody else,

462
00:39:47,445 --> 00:39:48,805
and self-fulfilling,

463
00:39:48,885 --> 00:39:51,365
even from many thousands
of miles away.

464
00:39:59,405 --> 00:40:00,445
Dear Tsarina.

465
00:40:03,405 --> 00:40:05,885
God has seen your tears and prayers.

466
00:40:15,085 --> 00:40:16,725
Do not grieve.

467
00:40:19,005 --> 00:40:20,845
O holy King,

468
00:40:20,925 --> 00:40:23,845
compassionate
and all-merciful Lord Jesus Christ,

469
00:40:23,925 --> 00:40:26,108
Son and Word of the living God,

470
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:29,165
Who desirest not the
death of a sinner...

471
00:40:34,045 --> 00:40:36,565
Do not allow the doctors to bother him.

472
00:40:38,005 --> 00:40:39,965
The little one will not die.

473
00:40:54,965 --> 00:40:55,965
Hey.

474
00:41:16,085 --> 00:41:19,285
The arrival of Rasputin?s telegram

475
00:41:19,365 --> 00:41:22,565
seemed to coincide
with the stopping of his bleeding

476
00:41:22,645 --> 00:41:25,725
and his emergence from a near death.

477
00:41:27,165 --> 00:41:28,405
Get out of here.

478
00:41:29,565 --> 00:41:31,045
Get out of here, both of you.

479
00:41:40,845 --> 00:41:42,845
Father Grigori is with us.

480
00:41:45,725 --> 00:41:49,085
Alexandra certainly believed,
and probably Nicky believed too,

481
00:41:49,165 --> 00:41:51,685
that this was a miracle,
that this was God?s work,

482
00:41:51,765 --> 00:41:54,965
and that Rasputin could stop
the bleeding of the child.

483
00:41:57,805 --> 00:41:59,645
I think you have to make a decision.

484
00:41:59,885 --> 00:42:02,005
Do you believe he had healing powers?

485
00:42:02,285 --> 00:42:04,165
Or do you not believe in such things?

486
00:42:30,805 --> 00:42:33,045
What?s this? What are we celebrating?

487
00:42:33,845 --> 00:42:35,845
Our beautiful new gemstones. Look.

488
00:42:35,925 --> 00:42:38,925
From Father Grigori. We all have one.

489
00:42:39,445 --> 00:42:41,605
They're so pretty,
they're all different colors.

490
00:42:41,685 --> 00:42:45,125
All princesses should have jewels, Daddy.
It?s the law.

491
00:42:45,885 --> 00:42:51,165
Oh, well, it?s very kind of him
to send you presents.

492
00:42:53,685 --> 00:42:55,765
Everyone loves surprises, Nicky.

493
00:43:00,205 --> 00:43:01,565
Do you want yours?

494
00:43:37,005 --> 00:43:38,285
It?s good to be back.

495
00:43:38,909 --> 00:43:44,909
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