Private Lives

U&Yesterday +1

7:10 AM to 8:10 AM

Sunday 14 December

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Dr Tracy Borman travels to St Petersburg, to reveal how Emperor Peter the Great's unconventional childhood produced a very unconventional man - from the debauched drinking society that governed Russia to his collection of oddities in the Kunstkamera museum. She also discovers how the enlightened yet brutal Peter managed to drag Russia towards the modern age