Power Play: The German Princesses At The Heart Of The Russian Empire | The Last Tsarinas | Timeline

Narrator: Almost all the Russian Tsarinas were German. Maria Feodorovna: 👁👄👁

Employing a family descendant to guide us through her eyes, was well thought out and executed She and the camera were good to each other.

Princess Dagmar was actually a Danish Princess, not German ...

I noticed a couple of mistranslations from the letters. During the Decembrist revolution Nicolas is described as "calm and cold-blooded", I think "sang-froid" is meant, which is used in English or would translate as self controlled. An tzarina is later described as retaining "self-love", the original "amour propre" is used in English, or could be translated as "self respect".

"The German princess Dagmar of Denmark"...? This will sound peculiar to Danes, since she was born in Denmark to the Danish king and queen. I see what you're trying to do here, but this is stretching it a little too far.

I thought this was lovely. I particularly like that a descendant of Charlotte/Aleksandra was traveling while learning of her own families history.. The Russian Empire & the Romanovs especially have always fascinated me! Who couldn’t have been fascinated with Katherine The Great?!

The portraits are extraordinary.

Where is the young princess or young lady featured here now? She's such a beauty and seems sweet. This is a nice way to do a documentary - having a descendant interviewing historians.

Interesting in some parts, but sort of an odd documentary. They spent 3/4’s of it on Charlotte at the beginning, then quick marched through the last three as fast as they could - especially considering the depth of drama and history surrounding Alexandra (the last Tsarina) it was kind of strangely put together 🤷🏻‍♀️

I can’t imagine leaving everyone I loved to move to a country with a different language, religion, culture, etc., to marry a man I have never met, with my main purpose to have male babies, and a few girl babies for forming alliances, to be shipped off just like I had been.

Dagmar's father was from Glücksborg in Southern Schleswig. While it is today part of Germany, when Dagmar was born and when her father became King, it was part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and had been for over 400 years. Her father and mother also both descended from Danish Kings. So no. She without a doubt was not German.

Thank you for the research and time taken <3 The wiggliness of the lines of countries at that point in time is wild ❤ I had no idea until recently that it truly is a small world.

Princess Dagmar shown on your photo second from right is Dane..she actually hated Prussia and by extension was quite hostile towards Germany..cause Prussia has "grabbed" Schleswig-Holstein from Danmark which Dagmar never forgot..so she influenced both her husband Emperor Alexander the Third and especially son Nicholas II..this is one subtle reason why Russia has chosen Entente and fought against Germany in WWI..so to put her among "German" princesses..is unfair..yet your German line lacks Catherine the Great..which is most famous and influential German in Russia now..this is exactly she who established firmly German tradition of marriage..first started by Peter the Great..another mistake..Princesses were not just from Prussia..but from many more German lands..Saxony Mecklenburg Baden Prussia Hessen Hessen-Darmstadt..just to reconstruct the line starting from Catherine the Great..

This is definitely a re-upload. I saw this documentary 3 years ago.

I think they make a factual error at 44:21. I believe The Tzar did try to renounce his claim to the throne, and their response was to execute him and his family anyway.

Dagmar of Denmark was not a German Princess-as her name and titel states she was a Danish Princess

Dagmar was definitely NOT German! As a DANISH princess she hated Germany or more specifically Prussia for conquering Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark in 1864. To call her German would be an INSULT

Amazing story

The documentary ignores Catherinr the Great and her two German daughters-in-law, two of them from lesser German states Anhalt-Zerbst and Hesse-Darmstadt. Sophia, mother of Alexander I and Nicholas II, was from Wuerttemberg but a junior branch. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Feodorovna_(Sophie_Dorothea_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg) Much more should have been made of Nicholas I letting his son choose his own bride, particularly from tiny Hesse-Darmstadt. Marie's legitimacy was also doubtful, since her mother Wilhelmina of Baden had been living with her chamberlain for years. But Wilhelmina's sisters had married well - Austria, Bavaria (with several daughters), Russia, etc.

This young maria in the modern day looks just like princess charlotte