Out of the Forest

Сезон 1, серия 1: Medieval Russia could be a terrifying place. On a mission to unearth the untold story of its art, historian Andrew Graham-Dixon criss-crosses its epic landscape, alighting at the monastery founded by Ivan the Terrible where his favorite forms of torture found inspiration in religious art. But there’s light here, too – charting the origins of the Russian icon from its roots in Byzantium.