The Chosen One
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jul 3, 2019 (42 min)
Czar Nicholas II takes the Russian throne in 1894 and rejects modern ideas to embrace a pure autocracy. Tragedy marks his coronation day.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jul 3, 2019 (42 min)
Czar Nicholas II takes the Russian throne in 1894 and rejects modern ideas to embrace a pure autocracy. Tragedy marks his coronation day.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jul 3, 2019 (43 min)
Russia's disastrous war against Japan prompts civil unrest. Prince Alexei is diagnosed with hemophilia, and Siberian mystic Rasputin steps in.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jul 3, 2019
Rasputin's influence grows. The Romanovs retreat into a bubble of luxury while the czar's forces brutally suppress protests by a starving populace.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jul 3, 2019
World War I takes Nicholas to the front. Back home, outrage grows over high casualties and Alexandra and Rasputin's political intrigues.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Jul 3, 2019
Rasputin is gone, but Nicholas continues his catastrophic policies in war and at home. Deprivation pushes the population from unrest to revolution.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Jul 3, 2019 (51 min)
The czar abdicates, and civil war erupts. As pro-royalist forces close in on the house where the Romanovs are imprisoned, the family's fate is sealed.