The World: A Television History

The Making of Russia: 1480 - 1860 (1x21)

Air date: Aug 28, 1985

The rise of the first Tsars and their descendants - Ivan the Terrible, Catherine the Great and the doomed Nicholas II. The history of the development of Russia shows how a few million Muscovites, dominated by the Golden Horde, came to occupy one sixth of the world's land surface.