A Life Under Russian Serfdom
Send us Fan Mail Today, we cover the miserable conditions that Russian serfs lived in. In particular, we will share quotes from the memoirs of one of the serfs, Savva Dmitrievich Purlevsky, who live i...
29 Juli 202423min
Princess Ekaterina Dashkova - Part Three
Send us Fan Mail Today, we wrap up the series of this remarkable woman. From meeting Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, and Denis Diderot, Dashkova would become the first woman to lead a major science acade...
15 Juli 202423min
Princess Ekaterina Dashkova - Part Two
Send us Fan Mail Today, we continue the story of this remarkable person. Dashkova, as she writes in her memoirs, believed herself to be in the middle of the coup to remove Peter III and replace him wi...
1 Juli 202423min
Princess Ekaterina Dashkova - Part One
Send us Fan Mail Today, we begin the series into one of the most fascinating women in world and Russian history, Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova Dashkova. She would become friends with Catheri...
16 Juni 202424min
Lenin - Who Was He Really?
Send us Fan Mail Who was Vladimir Ulyanov Lenin? How did he become the man who would help overthrow the Romanovs and begin the Bolshevik control of Russia and its neighboring countries? Support the sh...
3 Juni 202424min
The Great Game - Part Three
Send us Fan Mail Today, we wrap up the Great Game of tensions between the British and Russian Empires in Central Asia. Support the show
21 Maj 202424min
The Great Game - Part Two
Send us Fan Mail Today, we talk about the quagmire that the British stepped into when they invaded Afghanistan to begin the First Anglo-Afghan War and the role it played in the Great Game. Support the...
5 Maj 202424min
The Great Game - Part One
Send us Fan Mail Today, we begin a new series on the Great Game (also known as Bolshaya Igra), a jockeying of position between the two great empires of the 19th century, Russia and Great Britain Suppo...
21 Apr 202423min
