5 Films & TV Shows Set In Russia During The 1880s
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Long Way North
🇷🇺 Russia The 1880s1892, Saint Petersburg. Sasha, a young Russian aristocrat, has always been fascinated by her grandfather's life as an adventurer. A renowned explorer, he designed a magnificent arctic ship, but he hasn't returned from his last expedition to the North Pole. To save her family's honor, Sasha runs away. Headed towards the Great North, she follows her grandfather's trail in search of his famous ship.
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The Barber of Siberia
🇷🇺 Russia The 1900s The 1890s The 1880sHe's Russian. That explains a lot. — Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
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Adorable Sinner
🇷🇺 Russia The 1880s The 1870s The 1860s The 1850sMen couldn't resist her...not even an Emperor! — The Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and becomes his mistress. With the help of Katia, Alexandre prepares a liberal constitution, but these reforms make him hostile to the more privileged subjects without satirising the revolutionaries against the regime.
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The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
🇷🇺 Russia The 1880s The 1870sYoung Maxim grows up under the czarist regime with his grandparents as guardians. Continually demeaned by his martinet grandfather, Maxim is drawn to his warm-hearted grandmother, who instills in him the willingness to pursue his writing muse.
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Katia
🇷🇺 Russia The 1880s The 1870s The 1860s The 1850s
