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1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 min. 24 sec.) ; 317124214 bytes |
| Summary |
This Danish-made six-part series tells the history of a royal family that has links all over Europe. This episode begins in 1864 when Christian IX and Queen Louise's second-eldest daughter, Dagmar met her dream prince, Nicholas (Nixa), after he arrived in Denmark from Russia. When they got engaged they scratched their names on a windowpane at Fredensborg Palace in Denmark, and Dagmar became accustomed to a completely new life as the future Czarina of Russia. But that very year Nixa died of meningitis and Dagmar was passed on to his brother, Alexander (III). The couple had five children, of whom the eldest, Nicholas (II), married the German Princess Alix of Hessen-Darmstadt, against his parents' will. She bore him four daughters and finally a son. The royal family realised in horror that the son was a haemophiliac and in despair at her son's ill health, Alix sent for "the holy man", Rasputin. When the long-haired, shabby man appeared in the elegant apartments he left behind him a life of drink and women and when he repeatedly succeeded in stopping the boy's haemorrhaging, he completely won Alix's confidence. Revolution was smouldering and Nicholas II was taken to Siberia with his family, and he, Alexandra and their five children were shot in the "House of Special Purpose". Two of the children, Maria and Alexei, are still missing. Dagmar spent two years under house arrest in the Crimea before being rescued by the HMS Marlborough, a British warship. Until the day she died in 1928, she refused to believe that Nicholas II and his wife and children had been assassinated. Xenia and Olga, Dagmar's two daughters, also escaped from Russia and settled in English and Denmark, respectively. Both have numerous descendants including Princess Olga Romanoff, Xenia Kulikovsky and Paul Kulikovsky. (From Denmark, in English) (Part 4) |
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Broadcast 2011-05-06 at 20:35:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, 1818-1881.
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Christian IX, King of Denmark, 1818-1906.
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Kings and rulers -- Conduct of life.
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Kings and rulers -- Family relationships.
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Kings and rulers -- Genealogy.
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Russia.
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Streaming video
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Christian, Joachim Holger Waldemar, contributor
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Ingrid, Benedikte Astrid Ingeborg, contributor
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Kulikovsky, Xenia, contributor
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Romanoff, Olga, contributor
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Romanov, Dimitri, contributor
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Romanov, Nikolai, contributor
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