Episode 103 - Villages, Partitions, and Revolution.
Today we are going to zoom in on that period just after the dust had settled — roughly 1792 onwards — and have a look at what Russia looked like from a geopolitical standpoint We'll also be talking ab...
22 Apr 28min
Episode 102 - Victory and stalemate
After a decade of calmness in Russia with not much happening, the late 1780's suddenly exploded into action with wars against both the Ottomans and the Swedes and we also witness the death of another ...
16 Apr 28min
Episode 101 - The early 1780’s
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
Episode 100, Russia’s story so far, and the world in 1780.
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
Episode 99 - The almost empty in-tray
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
Episode 98 - Two Weddings, Two Deaths and a Cockroach
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
Podcast Update - November 2025
Just a short update from me about life in general and the short-term impact to the podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
25 Nov 20253min
Episode 97 - You’re going up and I’m going down
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
