He vows to continue the same autocratic control over Russia as his father, but his coronation is marked by mass deaths during the festivities.

In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary is assassinated in Sarajevo and the country declares war against Serbia, supported by Germany.

Back home in Pokrovskoye, Rasputin is stabbed by Chionya Guseva, during which time he becomes a decisive figure in society.

By 1915, Nicholas takes over command of the war and heads to the front, placing Alix and Rasputin in charge in St. Petersburg.

While drinking in a bar, Rasputin boasts about his influence over Alix, which states public rumours that they’re having a sexual relationship.

Lenin’s Bolshevik rule is put under fire when lose fraction groups split and cause the Russian Civil War.

[3] The series was described by The Guardian as "a surreal Wikipedia entry brought to life", in a review which pointed out production errors such as a bottle with the word “vodka” misspelled in Cyrillic, and a shot of Red Square, supposedly in 1905, featuring Lenin's Mausoleum which was not built until 1924.