Overview

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's involvement with other members of the imperial family, the Romanovs, such as Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich and Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich.

Genres

Cast

Michalina Olszańska

Matilda Kschessinska

Lars Eidinger

Nicolas II

Luise Wolfram

Alexandra Feodorovna

Danila Kozlovsky

Vorontsov

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)

Sergey Garmash

Alexandre III

Evgeny Mironov

Ivan Karlovich

Grigoriy Dobrygin

Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia

Galina Tyunina

Maria Pavlovna, wife of prince Vladimir

Vitaliy Kovalenko

Vladimir Aleksandrovich, great Duke

Vitaly Kishchenko

Vlasov, head of detective police

Thomas Ostermeier

Fishel, psychiatrist