Historical Tales, Volume VIII: Russian
Charles Morris
39 chapters · 9 h 6 min · English
Read by Kalynda, Linda Johnson, Ciufi Galeazzi, tovarisch, DrPGould, pmstrahm and others
History
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These Russian tales span the time of Russia's founding in the 800s-900s all the way to the early twentieth century and are factually based, although particularly the older tales have become legendary. ( DrPGould)
Chapters
1 The Ancient Scythians 14 min 2 Oleg the Varangian 10 min 3 The Vengeance of Queen Olga 11 min 4 Vladimir the Great 18 min 5 The Lawgiver of Russia 12 min 6 The Yoke of the Tartars 9 min 7 The Victory of the Don 7 min 8 Ivan, the First of the Czars 6 min 9 The Fall of Novgorod the Great 15 min 10 Ivan the Terrible 9 min 11 The Conquest of Siberia 8 min 12 The Macbeth of Russia 25 min 13 The Era of Impostors 13 min 14 The Book of Ancestry 6 min 15 The Boyhood of Peter the Great 13 min 16 Carpenter Peter of Zaandam 17 min 17 The Fall of Strelitz 19 min 18 The Crusade Against Beards and Cloaks 11 min 19 Mazeppa, the Cossack Chief 11 min 20 A Window Open to Europe 19 min 21 From the Hovel to the Throne 17 min 22 Buffooneries of the Russian Court 15 min 23 How a Woman Dethroned a Man 17 min 24 A Struggle for a Throne 13 min 25 The Flight of the Kalmucks 36 min 26 A Magical Transformation Scene 10 min 27 Kosciusko and the Fall of Poland 8 min 28 Suwarrow the Unconquerable 17 min 29 The Retreat of Napoleon's Grand Army 11 min 30 The Death-Struggle of Poland 16 min 31 Schamyl, the Hero of Circassia 15 min 32 The Charge of the Light Brigade 14 min 33 The Fall of Sebastopol 15 min 34 At the Gates of Constantinople 13 min 35 The Nihilists and Their Work 12 min 36 The Advance of Russia in Asia 17 min 37 The Railroad in Turkestan 13 min 38 An Escape from the Mines of Siberia 15 min 39 The Sea Fight in the Waters of Japan 19 min
