7.6/1098 votes#1 - Reinventing Russia
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/2016
Lucy investigates the beginning of the Romanovs' 300-year reign in Russia. In 1613, when Russia was leaderless, 16-year-old Mikhail Romanov was plucked from obscurity and offered the crown of Russia. Mikhail was granted absolute power and began the reign of the Romanovs as the most influential dynasty in modern European history.
Director: John Das
Writer: N/A
7.7/1079 votes#2 - Age of Extremes
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/2016
Lucy examines the extraordinary reign of Catherine the Great, and the traumatic conflict with Napoleonic France that provides the setting for the novel War and Peace.
Director: John Das
Writer: N/A
7.7/1080 votes#3 - The Road to Revolution
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/2016
Lucy Worsley concludes her history of the Romanov dynasty, investigating how the family's grip on Russia unraveled in their final century. She shows how the years 1825-1918 were bloody and traumatic, a period when four tsars tried - and failed - to deal with the growing pressure for constitutional reform and revolution.
Director: Sebastian Barfield
Writer: N/A
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Lucy Worsley travels to Russia to tell the extraordinary story of the dynasty that ruled the country for more than three centuries - the Romanovs.
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Four
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Reinventing Russia" is the best rated episode of "Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley" season 1. It scored 7.6/10 based on 98 votes. Directed by John Das and written by N/A, it aired on 1/6/2016. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Age of Extremes".