A Giant's Childhood

DVD1986 60 Minutes

The early history of Russia.

Peter Ustinov traces the early history of Russia, from the first stirrings of its civilisation to the reign of Ivan the Terrible. Highlights include a meeting with Ivan, a visit to the Moscow Circus and scenes from the Bolshoi Operas, production, Boris Gudonov. The first part of a six part series 'Peter Ustinov's Russia' This is history told with a difference in Peter Ustinov's special brand of humour known to many who saw him on television as a raconteur. This series was made in 1986 soon after the accession to the top job in the then Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev. A time of great optimism and a flowering of expressions which had been suppressed for many years. Therefore it is not only a history of Russia's past but also a picture of life at that special time of 1986

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