Ever since their brutal murders one hundred years ago, Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Empress Alexandra, have fascinated the world. Through the couple₂s politically damning, sexually intimate, and personally revealing letters, this two-part docudrama, presented by historian Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb, explores Nicholas and Alexandra₂s complex love story and the couple₂s role in the lead-up to the Russian Revolution of 1917, which led to their eventual brutal and tragic executions.
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