{1}{1}25.000 {20}{94}"The first revolution, {100}{174}and the counter-revolutionary|period which followed it (1907-1914) {179}{253}laid bare the true nature|of the czarist monarchy, {258}{332}pushed it to its limits, {337}{411}and exposed the rottenness,|the corruption, {416}{490}the cynicism and the debauchery|among the Czar's followers, {495}{569}with the monstrous Rasputin|leading the pack..." {575}{649}V.I. Lenin|"Letters from Exile" {739}{924}MOSFILM {983}{1040}Second Artists' Association {1175}{1274}Russia {1410}{1499}The Russian Empire is a vast|territory {1504}{1657}straddling Europe and Asia. {1662}{1794}A land of 170 million inhabitants,|the largest monarchy in the world. {1841}{1951}An agricultural country, with|industry only moderately developed. {1964}{2049}A country of great poets, writers, {2054}{2134}thinkers, and revolutionaries. {2150}{2249}A country where two-thirds of|the population is illiterate. {2289}{2363}A country of enormous|social contrasts, {2387}{2436}where bureaucracy and censorship|are omnipresent, {2441}{2505}where the authorities|stifle human rights. {2616}{2669}The First World War has revealed {2675}{2774}the patent bankruptcy|of government {2779}{2853}and accentuated its weaknesses|and internal contradictions. {2868}{2984}Crushing military defeats have|caused the loss of Poland, {3005}{3059}Lithuania, parts of Latvia|and Byelorussia. {3064}{3148}The army was almost out of|ammunition. {3193}{3269}A severe fuel shortage|paralyzed transport. {3275}{3334}All attempts to solve|the food crisis {3339}{3375}came to nothing. {3408}{3489}The black market flourished.|Speculation, corruption, {3494}{3584}wasting of public funds|were rampant. {3600}{3713}The foreign debt climbed|to 51 billion gold rubles. {3764}{3813}Russia owed money|to France, England, {3818}{3889}the United States, Belgium,|and many other countries. {3900}{3951}Russia's economic independence|was at stake {3956}{4074}and her political independence|seriously compromised. {4141}{4203}The situation was critical. {4210}{4303}Russia was about to experience|an upheaval that would affect {4308}{4399}not only her history,|but that of the entire world. {5075}{5184}Written by Semyon LUNGIN|and Ilya NUSINOV {5193}{5286}Directed by Elem KLIMOV {5295}{5388}Director of Photography|Leonid KALASHNIKOV {5398}{5522}Production Designers: Shavkat|ABDUSALIMOV, Sergey VORONKOV {5685}{5778}Music by Alfred SCHNITTKE|Sound by Boris VENGEROVSKY {5783}{5832}Conductor Eri KLAS {6000}{6042}Starring {6054}{6117}Alexei PETRENKO {6125}{6174}Anatoly ROMASHIN {6179}{6249}Velta LINE|Alissa FREINDLIKH {6410}{6476}AGONY {7728}{7797}Russia. 1916 {8062}{8159}I'm ready to take any punishment|if Your Majesty {8164}{8224}should be displeased with me. {8239}{8313}I trust my painting|won't inhibit your ideas. {8433}{8542}If I'm overstepping my position,|you just have to say one word, {8547}{8636}and I shall resign my post|as President of the Duma. {8650}{8711}What's this all about,|Mikhail Vladimirovich? {8735}{8865}The best of Mother Russia's sons,|elected deputies of the Duma, {8870}{8919}representing all of the Guberniyas... {8925}{8984}Put it simply, if you please. {9064}{9144}Your Majesty, it is for your own|safety. {9160}{9274}We're on the eve of the events,|the result of which we can't foresee. {9304}{9390}What the government, and you|personally, are doing {9395}{9494}is enraging the citizens to such|an extent, that anything is possible. {9570}{9624}The Lord will arrange it all. {9670}{9728}Please allow me to doubt that. {9885}{9990}And another thing. You've got|to get rid of him. {10043}{10074}Of whom? {10104}{10249}In the name of the patriots who pray|for the well-being of the crown, {10254}{10340}I beg you to chase him out. {10345}{10473}The influence he has gained|over your august family... {10478}{10559}...over affairs of state...|- Now wait... {10568}{10611}...over the clergy... {10662}{10736}You may tell those patriots {10741}{10865}that the private life of my family|is my own concern. {10883}{10957}I'm afraid that's where you're|wrong, Your Majesty. {11079}{11119}Disgusting. {11143}{11184}Disgusting. {11193}{11346}These masterpieces are being|exhibited in the provinces, too, {11360}{11384}and to the army! {11404}{11453}My people love me. {11915}{11959}Russia's reigning House|of Romanov. {11964}{12101}The Romanov aristocratic family|dates back to the 13th century, {12118}{12217}when a certain Lithuanian|nobleman, Glanda Kambilla, {12222}{12317}after taking upon baptism|the name of Ivan, {12322}{12378}came to Russia. {12389}{12488}His son, Andrei Kobyla,|had five sons of his own: {12493}{12613}Semyon Zherebets, Alexander|Yolka, Vassily Ivantai, {12618}{12692}Gavrila Gavsha and Fyodor Koshka, {12697}{12824}from whom were to come|Russia's 17 ruling families. {12893}{12974}The first Russian czar|of the Romanov dynasty {13000}{13142}was Mikhail Fyodorovich,|who came to the throne in 1613. {13175}{13301}The seventeenth and last Romanov|czar was Nicholas II. {13406}{13492}He was born in 1868. {13497}{13582}His father was Alexander III. {13595}{13661}His mother, Princess Dagmar|of Denmark, {13666}{13740}who in Russia took the name|of Marie Fyodorovna. {13770}{13828}He was privately tutored|at the palace. {13839}{13924}In 1894, he married {13956}{14026}the German Princess|Alix of Hesse, {14031}{14124}who became the Czarina|Alexandra Fyodorovna. {14135}{14249}Nicholas II succeeded to|the throne in 1894. {14264}{14359}The coronation festivities were|marred by the Khodynka, {14364}{14444}a bloody trampling on people|in Khodynka meadow in Moscow. {14516}{14657}In the course of its 300-year|history, the Romanov dynasty {14662}{14711}had survived many upheavals: {14716}{14805}the peasant insurrections led|by Razin and Pugachev, {14810}{14874}the Decembrist uprising,|the Narodnaya Volya movement, {14879}{14934}and the revolution of 1905. {14960}{15032}However, never before had|the future {15037}{15126}looked so ominous|for the royal family. {15137}{15236}Nothing short of a miracle|could save the situation. {15687}{15719}I. F. Manassevitch-Manouilov {15724}{15765}"Manouilo", "Vanka Cain",|journalist {15770}{15838}I.L. Goremykin,|Prime Minister {15843}{15913}A.A. Vyrubova,|friend of the Imperial family {15931}{16013}You think there's no way|the project can go through? {16018}{16074}It was hopeless to start with. {16079}{16149}A million rubles, all for a whim! {16154}{16280}It would mean to bring the railroad|to the spring. {16285}{16396}If Mr. Voyeikov wants to provision|his troops with mineral water, {16402}{16499}he'd better transport it|at his own expense. {16504}{16630}What kind of attitude is that?|Do we measure patriotism in rubles? {16635}{16674}I don't know, Ivan Fyodorovich. {16679}{16792}But it's a miracle! A spring|suddenly appeared out of nowhere! {16829}{16917}Russian mineral water "Kouvaka"!|It cures anything! {16922}{16996}- Oh, come on!|- That's really so! {17002}{17092}Yesterday Chaliapin was singing|Mephistopheles, and... {17097}{17230}It'd make the soldiers a lot happier|to think their country had done it. {17235}{17363}- No, no, and no, Ivan Fyodorovich!|- To spend a million rubles! {17368}{17424}- The way things are at the moment.|- I'm not sure... {17429}{17503}Grigory Efimovich promised|the general... {17539}{17590}Here's the general now. {17635}{17709}Do you mean that Grigory|Efimovich has drunk the water? {17714}{17807}He has and approved of it! {17885}{17934}Ivan Loginovich! {17939}{18103}My dear, you know of my high|regard for Grigory Efimovich! {18108}{18163}You mustn't criticize a man|of the God. {18168}{18242}Mineral water! {18247}{18315}The soldiers are starving!|They need bread! {18335}{18384}Man doesn't live by bread alone! {18393}{18490}- Oh, forget it.|- What do you mean, forget? {18495}{18590}Rather than pillage poor Mother|Russia, pity her! {18595}{18684}You're the one who should pity her.|It would help you to run her better! {18689}{18755}Ivan Loginovich, I'm losing|my faith in you. {18760}{18836}There is no faith any more! Not|in anything, nor in anyone! {18841}{18894}Leave me alone! {20302}{20351}Speaking. {20439}{20549}Listen to your cough,|you old walrus! {20554}{20653}It must be God's punishment|for your greed, you old hippo! {20658}{20713}Who is this? {20718}{20784}Clean out your ears, they've|been blocked up. {20789}{20896}- Grigory Efimovich?|- You recognized me, didn't you? {20927}{21044}I already said that it won't|work out! {21050}{21119}A million rubles, all for nothing! {21125}{21224}You want a bigger slice of|the cake, is that it? {21256}{21344}Do you know it's past four|o'clock now, Mr. Rasputin? {21364}{21449}You've got no right to disturb me|at this time! {21470}{21553}You have no right to talk to me|in this manner! {21558}{21599}Cry old nanny-goat! {22250}{22392}Grigory Efimovich Rasputin,|alias Novykh. {22431}{22566}Born in 1868|in the village of Pokrovskaya {22571}{22636}in the district of Tyumen,|in Tobolsk Guberniya. {22666}{22719}No known signs of insanity|in his family. {22743}{22805}Nicknamed "Snotnose"|by his boyfriends. {22844}{22899}Started drinking at the age of 15. {22917}{22978}Mixed-up in brawls and scandals, {22983}{23051}involved in illegal assemblies|of a sect called "The Flagellants". {23056}{23201}Twice convicted|and sentenced to be whipped. {23254}{23378}At the age of 27, suddenly|became an itinerant preacher, {23391}{23430}calling himself the "Holy Starets". {23460}{23549}Visited many monasteries|in Siberia and Central Russia {23554}{23653}and made pilgrimages to|Mount Athos and Jerusalem. {23681}{23746}By the turn of the century, {23752}{23817}rumors about the Siberian prophet|and faith-healer reached the capital, {23822}{23871}and he soon appeared there himself. {23914}{24005}He was welcomed into th...
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