episode description
In a dank prison cell, Tsar Peter the Great - the six-foot seven-inch giant who literally re-invented Russia - orders the torture of his greatest antagonist, the only man on Earth who could undermine Peter's lifelong tidal wave of radical reform... his son. For 25 years Tsar Peter struggled to drag Russia out of the Dark Ages, brutalizing his people in his quest. Anyone or anything that stood in his way all faced destruction, dishonour or death. No man dared say no to the reformer Tsar- no man but one: the heir to his Empire, his son Alexei. Alexei fled the country to escape his father's iron will; but Peter couldn't risk allowing his heir to live free. And so the Tsar tracked down his own son like an escaped convict, kidnapped him and set about to change his blood heir's old Russian soul the only way Peter knew how - by brute force.
