RUSSIAN HISTORY PART 2 – THE ROMANOVS ET AL

Chris Beckett’s passion is Russian History. For over 35 years he has researched it’s history and has visited Russia many, many times. 

Part two of this series on Russian History covers the early Romanovs and especially Peter the Great: the reformist Tsar that turned Russia from the East to the West. The great female rulers of the 18th Century that helped develop Russia along its course of enlargement.

The reactionary males of the 19th Century along with the one ruler that tried to change Russia’s autocratic path. The emergence of the revolutionary movement and the rise of Lenin. The First World War and it’s consequences.