The Empress Who Handed Russia To A Peasant — And Lost Everything

Added: 2026-05-21

[00:00:00]She was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. [music] She spoke four languages. She married the most powerful man in Russia and became Empress [music] of 130 million people.

[00:00:12]And she [music] handed the empire to a peasant.

[00:00:16]Alexandra Fyodorovna had one son. His name was [music] Alexei. He was the heir to three centuries of Romanov rule. And he was [music] dying.

[00:00:28]Slowly, painfully, from hemophilia, the disease that had moved quietly through Queen Victoria's bloodline, and finally [music] arrived here.

[00:00:38]The doctors had no answer.

[00:00:41]Then, a Siberian peasant named Rasputin [music] walked into the palace. He prayed over the boy. The bleeding [music] stopped.

[00:00:49]From that moment, Alexandra believed he had been sent by God.

[00:00:54]The Russian court thought he was a charlatan.

[00:00:57]Ministers [music] warned the Tsar.

[00:00:59]Nobles begged Alexandra to send him away. She ignored all of them.

[00:01:05]In 1915, [music] Nicholas left for the front to command the Russian army personally.

[00:01:11]He left [music] Alexandra in charge of the government. She started dismissing ministers. The ones who questioned Rasputin [music] were replaced first, then the competent ones, then anyone who stood in the way.

[00:01:26]A member of the Russian parliament [music] stood up in 1916 and declared that the Tsar's ministers had been turned into marionettes, and the hands [music] pulling the strings belonged to Rasputin and the Empress.

[00:01:40]The Russian people were starving. The war was failing, and they blamed her.

[00:01:46]On December 30th, 1916, >> [music] >> Russian nobles murdered Rasputin. They thought it would save the dynasty. It was already too late.

[00:01:57]By February [music] 1917, the cities had no food. The revolution came.

[00:02:03]Nicholas [music] abdicated.

[00:02:05]Alexandra was arrested in the palace where she had dismissed all those ministers.

[00:02:11]On the night of July 16th, [music] 1918, the entire Romanov family was taken to a basement and executed.

[00:02:20]She had sewn emeralds and diamonds [music] into her children's clothing in case they needed to run, but they never got the chance.