me.
- It's dangerous in Petrograd...
the sailors and workers
have rebelled.
Admiral Nepenin was stabbed
to death with a bayonet.
- Can I see you to the station?
- Sonya, I...
Rostislav is waiting for you.
Go to him.
- Will you come back?
- Of course.
What silly thoughts.
Petrograd
Kerensky wants to offer you
the post of war minister...
Let's see. I wish he would
see me on time.
But he is late.
Today...
at the Mikhailovsky Castle...
Today...
I can see we have a different
view of the war...
By condoning anarchy
you have broken up the army
- and destroyed the Russian navy.
- Don't forget, Admiral...
Unless I have authority
to impose strict order
your proposals
are unacceptable to me.
Former procedures in the army
are not acceptable to us.
I was the first to swear allegiance
and I'll be the first
to leave the Navy.
In this way,
I will make a public statement
that the current state of affairs
is ruinous for Russia.
I accept your resignation.
I am honoured.
You should be arrested for your
counter-revolutionary leanings.
But given your merits,
I offer you to go to America.
I'm giving you the chance to
continue the war against Germany.
Are you exiling me from Russia?
The Americans need an expert who can
conduct a landing
and seize Constantinople.
My family is still in Sevastopol.
I'll take care of them.
I'll ask the allies to have
them brought to you overseas.
Thank you.
Dear...
My darling, Anna Vasilievna.
You are my happiness;
I can't live without you...
What?
Their times are over!
I'm leaving Russia.
Why?
What tired eyes you have.
I love you.
And I always will.
Forgive me.
Farewell,
Alexander Vasilievich.
I know that you are alive.
SEVASTOPOL
Is it ready?
At least let me pray.
You can pray if you want to.
Listen, bring the rope.
Let's go while he draws the
Sailors away!
Stop!
Quick, let's go...
we can't wait for him here. A
Stop!
Mrs. Kolchak! Open the
door, Mrs. Kolchak!
Document check!
Break it down!
Break the windows!
It's time, the British ship
sets sail in an hour.
TRANS-SIBERIA RAILWAY
AUTUMN 1918
I think I'm doing it better.
Take your place.
What a good shot!
Let's drink to our wishes.
Even the ones that don't come true?
Does that make them
any less wishes.
- Excuse me, Madam.
- Yes, of course.
- Mikhail Ivanovich.
- Anna Vasilievna!
- My God!
- What a surprise!
I haven't seen you for a year...
What brings you here?
Sergei Nikolaevich has been
sent to the Far East.
He's on a mission to
disarm the Pacific fleet.
Sergei Nikolaevich?
...So he's in power now?
- A red commissar.
- I have no right to judge him.
At a time like this.
It's the same time for everyone.
- Where are you going?
- To Omsk.
But the Soviets are in
power there too?
No. Kolchak is there.
But I thought Alexander
Vasilievich was abroad?
Kerensky did send him abroad:
But after the Bolshevik coup
he returned to Russia
to fight the Bolsheviks.
I'm sorry, Anna Vasilievna,
I must go.
Goodbye.
Serezha:
Aha... yes... yes, Anya!
What is it?
Kolchak is in Omsk
gathering an army.
Anya, if this is a rebuke,
you know I agreed to collaborate
with the authorities because
they allowed us
to go far away from
this fratricidal madness...
To Japan, China...
It's all for your sake, Anechka.
I don't blame you for anything.
But I love Alexander
Vasilievich, Serezha.
And now I need to be with him...
I realize that these are harsh words,
but I have never
stopped loving him.
I see! ...Stop, stop...
Let me help.
So there it is. A time of wars
and revolutions.
Anything goes.
The time has nothing
to do with it.
When I fell asleep I
was your husband.
I wake up and I am
no longer your husband:
I know it's hard for you
but you've got to be strong.
You'll forget me before long.
Let me be the one
to decide that.
Siberia, Eastern Front.
November 1918
I pledge and swear
before Almighty God,
His Holy Gospel
and the Life-Giving