World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Turkey

Eva March Tappan

112 chapters · 16 h 37 min · English

Read by Sonia, Jim Locke, Alan Mapstone, Tomas Peter, Colleen McMahon, Kristine Bekere and others

Historical Fiction · War & Military · Political Science · History · War & Military Fiction

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Chapters

1. 1Skirmish between cossacks and the imperial bodyguard, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille, (France 1848), painting, frontispiece2 min
2. 2Russia Part I: Folk-tales and early history: Historical note3 min
3. 3The imp and the crust, by Count Leo Tolstoy8 min
4. 4The story of iron and the poison water, from the Kalevala7 min
5. 5The country and customs of the Scythians (fifth century B.C.), by Herodotus16 min
6. 6The vengeance of Queen Olga (about 945), from the chronicle of Nestor9 min
7. 7Vladimir in search of a religion (about 988), by John S. C. Abbott11 min
8. 8Russia Part II: In the days of Ivan the Terrible: Historical note3 min
9. 9How Russia was freed from the Tartars (1480), by John S. C. Abbott11 min
10. 10Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584), by Frances A. Shaw15 min
11. 11Life at the Setch (fifteenth century), by Nikolai V. Gogol23 min
12. 12The false Czar (1605), by Frances A. Shaw19 min
13. 13The kremlin of Moscow, by Bayard Taylor17 min
14. 14Russia Part III: Peter the Great: Historical note3 min
15. 15A morning with Peter the Great (early in the eighteenth century), by Dmitri Merejkowski17 min
16. 16How St. Petersburg was built (1703), by John S. C. Abbott4 min
17. 17A supposed letter from an English architect (1715), by Maurice Baring15 min
18. 18Russia Part IV: From Catherine the Great to the invasion of Napoleon: Historical note2 min
19. 19A day with Catherine the Great (1794), by Adrian Moyseevich Gribovski13 min
20. 20Borodino (1812), by Alexander Sergeyevitch Pushkin6 min
21. 21The burning of Moscow, by Louis Adolph Thiers8 min
22. 22The crossing of the Beresina river (1812), by John S. C. Abbott10 min
23. 23Passage of the Beresina, by J. H. Van Papendrecht, painting p. 1302 min
24. 24Russia Part V: Poland: Historical note3 min
25. 25The surrender of Kamenyetz (1672), by Henryk Sienkiewicz21 min
26. 26Poland or Russia ? (1793), by Jane Porter16 min
27. 27The division of Poland, by Sir Edwin Arnold3 min
28. 28The revolt in Warsaw, 1861, by Joseph Nicholas Robert-Fleury (French painter, 1792-1890), painting p. 1583 min
29. 29Russia Part VI: Siberia: Historical note2 min
30. 30The conquest of Siberia (1579-1584), by Count Leo Tolstoy24 min
31. 31Yermak, a folk-song4 min
32. 32How pardon was won for an exile (1808), by Madame Sophie Risteau Cottin10 min
33. 33On the march to Siberia (nineteenth century), by Baroness M. De Packh9 min
34. 34A Kirghis warrior, by Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagin (Russia, 1842-1904), painting p. 1862 min
35. 35In a Tartar tent (about 1909), by Lindon Bates, Jr18 min
36. 36Russia Part VII: A coronation and three wars: Historical note3 min
37. 37The coronation of Alexander II (1855), by Count von Moltke11 min
38. 38The emancipation of the serfs (1861), by Hezekiah Butterworth4 min
39. 39The taking of the village (an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey), by Vsyevolod Mikhailovitch Garshin12 min
40. 40The capture of a redoubt (an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey), by Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagin18 min
41. 41Coaling at sea (1905), by Commander Vladimir Semenoff, of the Imperial Russian Navy18 min
42. 42Russia Part VIII: Life in modern Russia: Historical note2 min
43. 43The races on the Neva river (1870), by Théophile Gautier10 min
44. 44A little Jewish girl in Russia, by Mary Antin9 min
45. 45The fair of Nijni-Novgorod, by Edna Dean Proctor3 min
46. 46Austria-Hungary Part I: From the Tartar invasion to the Reformation: Historical note3 min
47. 47The coming of the Tartars (1240), by Louis Felbermann7 min
48. 48How Rudolf the First became Emperor (1273), by John S. C. Abbott16 min
49. 49Stories of Rudolf, founder of the house of Hapsburg (thirteenth century), by William Coxe11 min
50. 50How Naumburg was saved, by Jaroslav Cermak (Bohemian artist, - 1878), painting p. 2702 min
51. 51The deliverance of Prague (1420), by E. H. Gillett17 min
52. 52A funeral menu of the sixteenth century (1509), from the old chronicles5 min
53. 53The emperor Maximilian receiving the Venetian embassy, by Karl Ludwig Friedrich Becker (German artist, 1820-1900), painting p. 2843 min
54. 54Austria-Hungary Part II: The religious wars of the seventeenth century: Historical note2 min
55. 55The devastation of St. Vitus's church (1619-1620), by Marie Hay16 min
56. 56Wallenstein, the deposed general (1630), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller7 min
57. 57Wallenstein and the cuirassiers (1634), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller15 min
58. 58How John Sobieski saved Vienna from the Turks (1683), by John S. C. Abbott10 min
59. 59Austria-Hungary Part III: From Maria Theresa to the downfall of Napoleon: Historical note3 min
60. 60How Maria Theresa of Austria became King (1740), by John S. C. Abbott11 min
61. 61The command of Maria Theresa, by John S. C. Abbott11 min
62. 62Hohenlinden (1800), by Thomas Campbell3 min
63. 63The battle of Austerlitz (1805), by John S. C. Abbott5 min
64. 64How the French honored Joseph Haydn (1805), by ''Louisa Mühlbach'' (Klara M. Mundt)11 min
65. 65Andreas Hofer rallying the Tyrolean mountaineers, by Franz von Defregger (Austrian painter, 1835), painting p. 3442 min
66. 66Austria-Hungary Part IV: The nineteenth century: Historical note2 min
67. 67After the battle of Szolnok (1849), by Maurus Jókai18 min
68. 68The unlucky weathercock (1849), by Maurus Jókai12 min
69. 69Kossuth's farewell (1849)6 min
70. 70The salt mines of Wieliczka (1850), by Bayard Taylor12 min
71. 71Austria-Hungary Part V: Stories and poems of Bohemia, Hungary, and the Tyrol: Historical note2 min
72. 72The dog and the wolf, a Bohemian folk-tale, retold by Theodor Vernaleken7 min
73. 73The poor man and the king of the crows, a Magyar folk-tale, retold by Jeremiah Curtin22 min
74. 74St. Kümmerniss, a legend of the Tyrol6 min
75. 75The legend of St. Kümmerniss, by François Joseph Heim (French artist, 1787-1865), painting p. 4001 min
76. 76Stories of the gypsies13 min
77. 77Two Magyar poems5 min
78. 78A Csikos race, by Alexander Wagner (Hungarian artist, 1838), painting p. 4082 min
79. 79The Balkan States: Historical note3 min
80. 80Marko and the Turks (fifteenth century), an old Servian ballad7 min
81. 81Montenegro, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson2 min
82. 82An attack on the Bashi-Bazouks (1907), by Arthur D. Howden Smith29 min
83. 83Herzegovinians returning to a village sacked by the Bashi-Bazouks, by Jaroslav Cermak (Bohemian artist, -1878), painting p. 4342 min
84. 84The siege of Adrianople (1912), by Philip Gibbs9 min
85. 85The flight from Lule-Burgas (1912), by Bernard Grant19 min
86. 86Turkey Part I: To the capture of Constantinople: Historical note3 min
87. 87Constantinople, a city built to order (fourth century), by Edward Gibbon12 min
88. 88The coming of the comet (1402), by Maurus Jókai19 min
89. 89Scanderbeg (about 1450), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow7 min
90. 90The fall of Constantinople (1453), by Edward Gibbon16 min
91. 91Turkey Part II: Turkey at the height of her power: Historical note3 min
92. 92The tribute of children, by Anonymous6 min
93. 93The little Janizary (about 1453), by James M. Ludlow19 min
94. 94The surrender of Rhodes (1522), by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine11 min
95. 95A visit to the wife of Solyman the Magnificent (sixteenth century), translated from a Genoese letter4 min
96. 96Dining with the Sultana (1718), by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu8 min
97. 97Turkey Part III: The sick man of Europe: Historical note3 min
98. 98The last of the Janizaries (1826), by Maurus Jókai19 min
99. 99The muezzin, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French artist, 1824-1904), painting p. 5283 min
100. 100''The House of Fear'' (1908), by Francis McCullagh21 min
101. 101The silent army (1909), by Francis McCullagh11 min
102. 102Turkey Part IV: Turkish stories: Historical note1 min
103. 103''The lamb bolted'', a legend of Turkish justice6 min
104. 104Stories of Nasr-Eddin Hoja6 min
105. 105A Turkish friendship (eighteenth century), by Cheliby Yorgaki10 min
106. 106Turkey Part V: Stories of Turkish life and customs: Historical note2 min
107. 107The first telegraph in Turkey (1854), by Sir J. William Whittall3 min
108. 108Choosing a wife for the son, by Lucy M. J. Garnett4 min
109. 109''Protestant bread'', by Cyrus Hamlin, D. D7 min
110. 110The dancing dervishes, by Julia Pardoe11 min
111. 111Ceremony of dervishes at Scutari, by Albert Aublet (French artist, 1851), painting p. 5742 min
112. 112A Turkish ''What for ?'', by Demetra Vaka8 min