A Host of White Princesses

Overview

On April 8, 1894, a young princess from the Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, to the great joy of the heir to the Russian throne, Nicholas, finally agrees to convert to Orthodoxy and become his wife. So begins the story of the family of the last Russian emperor. Their letters, diary entries, drawings, photographs and documentary films of the pre-revolutionary years create a kind of family chronicle.

Cast

Lyudmila Maksakova

Boris Plotnikov

Nina Tobilevich

Yuliya Tarkhova

Inga Ilm