11 modern films and serials about important events and personalities in the history of Russia

The history of the country, from the accession of the great Russian rulers to the II. We are talking about the best modern films and series about important moments in the history of Russia.

“Split” (2011)

The most difficult and little-known period in the history of Russia is the split of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 17th century. This is a picture about the fate of historical figures – Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and his son Fyodor Alekseevich, the Morozov brothers, the noblewoman Feodosia Morozova, about the church reforms of Patriarch Nikon and ardent opponents of these transformations, led by Archpriest Avvakum.

Romanovs (2013)

Multi-part documentary dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the reign of the Romanov dynasty in Russia. This is a story about what the Russian autocracy is and how Russia’s rulers are.

“Stalingrad” (2013)

Fyodor Bondarchuk’s military drama chronicling the events of 1942 and one of the most important and greatest battles of the Second World War. In Stalingrad, the counterattack of the Soviet troops against the German units was thwarted, and only the scouts managed to cross to the other side of the Volga and take a place in one of the houses. They were ordered to keep him at all costs.

“Katherine” (2014)

How did the German princess Sophia Augusta, from a poor family of Prussian kings, Frederick of Anhalt-Zerbst, Empress Catherine the Great of All Russia become and rule a vast empire? Starring Maria Alexandrova.

“Wonderful” (2015)

The history of the formation of the autocratic personality of Catherine the Great, from the moment she came to Russia as the bride of the Grand Duke Peter Fedorovich and until her ascension to the Russian throne. Almost two decades of palace intrigues, conspiracies, power struggles and personal dramas with Yulia Snigir, Pavel Derevyanko, Mark Bogatyrev and others.

“Sofia” (2016)

The last heir to the Byzantine throne, Prince of Moscow III. Medieval Russian history through the eyes of Sophia Paleolog, wife of Ivan and grandmother of Ivan the Terrible. Evgeny Tsyganov in one of the main roles.

“Bloody Woman” (2017)

Yulia Snigir stars as Daria Saltykova, who went down in history as one of the most brutal serial killers. Her name became the personification of bloodlust and inhumanity: after the mysterious death of her husband, she began to do evil to her servants, and in a few years tortured and killed more than a hundred serfs who were subordinate to her.

“Godunov” (2018)

Sergei Bezrukov, Sergei Makovetsky, Anna Mikhalkova, Svetlana Khodchenkova and others in a drama about the Godunov family – from the reign of Ivan the Terrible to the accession to the throne of Mikhail Romanov.

“Rurikovichi. History of the First Dynasty (2019)

Serial from the author of “The Romanovs” Maxim Bespaly. The project tells the history of the dynasty, which began simultaneously with the history of the state. Poets and warriors, saints and robbers, legislators and fratricide – some born from the throne, others – rose over the corpses of their brothers.

“Union of Liberation” (2019)

Maxim Matveev, Pavel Priluchny, Ivan Yankovsky, Anton Shagin and others, where Andrey Kravchuk (Viking) was born in St. In his drama about the 1825 Decembrist uprising in St.

“Podolsk Cadets” (2020)

Drama from the authors of the Brest Fortress. In October 1941, near Moscow, about three and a half thousand cadets of the Podolsk artillery and infantry schools were ordered to take up defense on the Ilyinsky line and, together with the regular units of the 43rd Army, to stop the advance of the fascist invaders. Until reinforcements arrive, yesterday’s children, who died, hold the defense against the much larger forces of the Germans and for twelve days become an obstacle on the enemy’s path to Moscow.