It portrays the memories of Matilda Kshesinskaya and her love affair with the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II. Matilda, a Polish-born ballerina from the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, had a brief and intense romance with Nicholas between 1892 and 1894, before Nicholas married Alexandra Feodorovna and was crowned Tsar after his father's death. It also explores their relationship, facing societal pressures and interference from Nicholas's mother, Empress Maria Feodorovna, as well as Matilda...
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Michalina OlszańskaMatilda Kschessinska
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Lars EidingerNicolas II
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Luise WolframAlexandra Feodorovna
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Danila KozlovskyVorontsov
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Ingeborga DapkūnaitėMaria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)
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Sergey GarmashAlexandre III
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Evgeny MironovIvan Karlovich
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Grigoriy DobryginGrand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia
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Galina TyuninaMaria Pavlovna, wife of prince Vladimir
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Vitaliy KovalenkoVladimir Aleksandrovich, great Duke