The Romanovs. The Real History of the Russian Dynasty. Episodes 1-4.

EMPIRE. Peter I & Catherine II. ALL EPISODES. Documentary Film: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwGzY2… All episodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USUA_1WVM8I&i… In 1613 The Zemsky Sobor (the National Assembly) adopted a decision to invite Michael Fyodorovich Romanov to become tsar of Russia. This decision was announced in Red Square in front of numerous crowds of people: “Michael Fyodorovich shall be tsar and lord of Muscovy and all the Russian state.” In order to prevent disturbances, Michael Romanov had to take a terrible sin upon his soul – to execute a 3 year-old boy… The most vivid pages of Russian history and the establishment and consolidation of Russian state power are associated with the eighteen Russian Tsars of the House of Romanov which include such historic names as Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Nicholas I and Alexanders I, II and III. The dynasty ended with the brutal assassinatio