Anton Chekhov - Russia's Playwright
Send us Fan Mail Today, we cover the life and extraordinary career of one of the world's and Russia's greatest playwrights, Anton Chekhov. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly don...
18 Dec 202227min
The Romanov Children - Part Two
Send us Fan Mail Today, we being in 1906, the year after the first Russian Revolution, covering the children of Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra. We end, tragically, with the murder of the entire royal ...
11 Dec 202226min
The Romanov Children - Part One
Send us Fan Mail Today, we start a new two-part series covering the children of the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II. We cover their births and the controversy surrounding the girls, and finally a boy...
3 Dec 202225min
The Russo-Turkish Wars - Part Two
Send us Fan Mail Today, we finish up our two-part series, ending with the final Russo-Turkish War, also known as World War I. It would mark the end of the two empires, which had fought each other for ...
26 Nov 202234min
The Russo-Turkish Wars - Part One
Send us Fan Mail Today, we begin a two-part series covering the 12 Russo-Turkish Wars that began in 1568 and ended in 1918. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click th...
20 Nov 202232min
Maxim Gorky
Send us Fan Mail Today, we finish our three-part series on famous Russian and Soviet writers, with Maxim Gorky. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - ht...
14 Nov 202226min
Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Telling the Story of Life in the USSR
Send us Fan Mail Today, we discuss the life and times of the great Soviet writer and dissident, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The author of The Gulag Archipelago, went from being a loyal Soviet citizen to o...
6 Nov 202226min
Ivan Bunin - Russia's First Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Send us Fan Mail Today, we begin our three-part series on some of the giants of Russian literature, Ivan Bunin, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Maxim Gorky. Listen to the tale of Russia's first winner of ...
30 Okt 202227min
