Mathilde is directed by Aleksey Uchitel and stars Danila Kozlovsky, Michalina Olszanska and Lars Eidinger. The movie tells the story of the tumultuous romance between the heir to the Russian throne, Nikolai Romanov, and a ballerina of the Imperial Theater, Mathilde Kshesinskaja, from the time they met in 1890 to the coronation of Nikolai and his wife Alexandra Fedorovna in 1896.