The Face of Russia

The Face of Russia is a personal interpretation of Russia’s cultural history by one of America’s pre-eminent Russian scholars, James H. Billington. Viewers are taken on a remarkable journey through history—to sacred monasteries and magnificent churches that have served as monuments to Christianity since late in the tenth century; to grand palaces of St. Petersburg and the great architectural masterpieces that dot the shoreline of the Baltic Sea; and to twentieth-century Russia where new forms of music and cinema are emerging. Along the way, the series reveals how the Russian people find inspiration in the evocative art of their past—and hope in the emerging images of their future.