EPISODE
In 15th-century Russia, Byzantine princess Sophia Palaiologina weds Czar Ivan III. Overcoming intrigues, she aids Ivan in unifying Russia, expelling Mongol invaders, and constructing the iconic Kremlin.
November 14, 1999
September 1, 1987 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
January 29, 1959 in Dmitrievka, Nikiforovskiy rayon, Tambovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
18 January 1950, Starominskaya, Starominskiy rayon, Krasnodarskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
January 25, 1978 in Alma-Ata, Kazakhskaya SSR, USSR [now Almaty, Kazakhstan]
26 October 1976
17 April 1952, Rome, Lazio, Italy
15 March 1979, Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
May 24, 1958 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
April 24, 1967 in USSR
September 1, 1987 in Sverdlovsk-45, Sverdlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Lesnoy, Russia]
May 5, 1937 in Novosibirsk, Zapadno-Sibirskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR [now Novosibirskaya oblast, Russia]
15 April 1966, Kursk, Kurskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
December 26, 1966 in Lvov, Lvovskaya oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Lvivska oblast, Ukraine]
6 December 1958, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
July 12, 1986 in Kirovograd, Kirovogradskaya oblast, Ukrainskaya SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
January 16, 1949 in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, USSR [now Lithuania]
