The History of Russia Podcast

This time around we’ll be looking at, in general, more calmness and I’ll be concentrating on just four things that will take us up to the mid 1780sFurther Russian territorial expansion and a touch mor...

9 Apr 27min

In today’s episode there are three things on the agenda.An overall summary of the key events and main themes of The History of Russia from 840i to 1780 and how those themes and events had made Russia ...

27 Mars 35min

This time around we'll be covering a 5 year period 1776 -1780 where Russia was going through a very rare calm period particularly when balanced against what had gone on between 1768 and 1775 and wha...

18 Mars 30min

After a long lay off the boy is back!Today, we’re going to track back to look at some other events that took place between 1772 and 1777 and in particular what was going on with Catherine and her son...

12 Mars 27min

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25 Nov 20253min

In recent episodes we've seen how various major events - the war with the Ottomans, the first partition of Poland, Smallpox, Pugachev, and the Moscow plague outbreak, occupied every waking hour of Cat...

13 Nov 202526min

Pugachev's rebellion gathers steam but Catherine the Great, who has other things to worry about, fails to take it seriously.Once again, some parts of this episode are, to say the least, a bit on the g...

23 Okt 202525min

In the first part of the episode we’ll be heading back to the 1760s and looking at the steps Catherine and others had taken to counter the effects of another of the 18th century’s fatal diseases - the...

17 Sep 202533min