In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets the charming cavalry officer Vronsky to whom she is immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
El cuirassat Potemkin és una pel·lícula basada en fets reals, que van succeir al port d'Odessa, a la mar Negra, a Ucraïna sota l'Imperi rus, durant la setmana del 26 de juny del 1905. La pel·lícula mostra que els mariners del cuirassat estan farts dels maltractaments i vexacions de part dels oficials, i quan se'ls intenta obligar a menjar carn podrida amb cucs, decideixen revoltar-se. Amb el motí del cuirassat arriba la revolució a Odessa.
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet.
Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.
Quan Vladimir Dubrovsky refusa convertir-se en amant de la tsarina Caterina II, aquesta, ferida al seu orgull, l'acusa de ser un criminal i ordena que el capturin viu o mort. Les propietats de la família Dubrovsky són immediatament confiscades i lliurades a Kyrilla Troekouroff, un home cruel que provoca la mort del pare de Vladimir. Quan aquest se n'assabenta, jura venjar-se i, per això, s'amaga darrere d'un antifaç negre i actua amb el sobrenom d'Àguila Negra. Per executar la seva venjança, es disfressa de preceptor i entra a la casa de Troekouroff com a professor de francès de Mascha, la filla del seu enemic. Però els seus plans trontollen quan comença a enamorar-se de la jove.
Anna Karenina està casada amb el senador Karenin, de qui té un fill de cinc anys. Però quan coneix el capità de l'exèrcit tsarista Alexei Vronsky, tots dos s’enamoren i començarà així la història d'un gran amor prohibit que, ni la societat ni l'exèrcit, aproven en absolut.
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to become Catherine the Great.
The dashing but arrogant Prince Michael Fedor Lubimoff has to flee Tsarist Russia after falling into disgrace and settles in Monte Carlo, where he resumes his life of debauchery while World War I ravages the fields of Europe… (Partially lost film; reels 3 and 9 of a total of 11 are missing.)
Russian monk Grigori Rasputin rises to power, which corrupts him along the way. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.
Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts allies, enemies, factions and ideas; a ruthless battle between democracy and authoritarianism that will end with the takeover of the government by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humble peasant who became the most influential adviser to czarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of the last czar, Nicholas II Romanov.
Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks. This tragic event puts an end to the long dynasty that had ruled the country with an iron hand since the coronation of Michael I Romanov in 1613.
After her brother is sent to Siberia, Sonja heads to Moscow to participate in a revolution.
In the late 17th century Russia, a dark magician arrives at the capital in search of the ultimate power hidden within the Magic Worlds, the entrance to which is located inside the Sukharev Tower and is tightly guarded by Jacob Bruce, the Wizard of Balance. When Jacob's apprentice Petya and daughter Margarita accidentally rip apart the ancient manuscript that is the source of his powers, they must venture into the Magic Worlds to restore it.
Drama of plot and intrigue in Imperial Russia.
In a small Jewish community in a pre-Revolutionary Russian village, a poor milkman, determined to find good husbands for his five daughters, consults the traditional matchmaker – and also has words with God.