Nicholas II Was Far Darker Than History Admits

He was the most powerful autocrat on earth, master of a sixth of the planet — and he ended shot against a cellar wall with his children, in a room the size of a pantry. This is the full story of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia: the shy, devoted family man catastrophically miscast as an absolute ruler, and the darkness the dynasty hid to keep him on the throne. From the coronation stampede at Khodynka and the massacre of Bloody Sunday, through the hidden haemophilia of his only son, the grip of Rasputin on the throne, the catastrophe of the war he chose to command, and the abdication that ended three hundred years of Romanov rule — to the cellar at Ekaterinburg, the acid and the unmarked grave, and the strange afterlife of a ruler whose reign helped kill millions, remembered at last as a saint. A feature-length documentary. Historical images are archival; some scenes are dramatised for illustration. ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 1:59 1. The Cellar 11:55 2. I Am Not Ready 21:04 3. A Wedding Beside a Coffin 29:29 4. The Coronation Curse 40:20 5. The Boy Who Could Not Bleed 48:26 6. Bloody Sunday 56:49 7. The Autocrat and the Parliament He Hated 1:04:34 8. The Blood Libel 1:12:27 9. Our Friend 1:22:36 10. The Tsar Takes Command 1:31:46 11. The German Woman and the Holy Devil 1:38:45 12. The Fall of the House of Romanov 1:46:44 13. Tobolsk to Ekaterinburg 1:54:28 14. The Bones and the Saint #NicholasII #Romanov #RussianHistory #Rasputin #History