Why order, not freedom, is the true legacy of Russian Empire’s legendary ruler Russia’s Channel One is airing a new TV series, ‘The Sovereign’, about Peter the Great. It joins a long tradition of cinematic portrayals of the country’s first emperor, stretching back to 1937. In one adaptation, the actor Vladimir Vysotsky even played Peter as a black man. So why another series now? Surely everything that can be said about Peter has already been said? Perhaps. But each generation needs to reimagine