HISTORY CHANNEL, 4 x 1 hour
Highest-rated program ever for The History Channel

The epic of the Russian Empire -- from the birth of the nation and the Orthodox Church in the 10th Century to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and the murder of the last Tsar. Land of the Tsars weaves together the tempestuous biographies of Russia's iconic rulers -- Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great and Nicholas II -- with the life of the Russian people to explore the turning points that shaped the destiny of an Empire.