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Historical Tales, Volume VIII: Russian

Charles Morris (1833 - 1922)

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)

Genre(s): History

Language: English

Group: Historical Tales

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	The Ancient Scythians	Kalynda	00:14:18
Play 02	Oleg the Varangian	Kalynda	00:10:26
Play 03	The Vengeance of Queen Olga	Kalynda	00:11:00
Play 04	Vladimir the Great	Kalynda	00:18:18
Play 05	The Lawgiver of Russia	Kalynda	00:12:12
Play 06	The Yoke of the Tartars	Kalynda	00:09:13
Play 07	The Victory of the Don	Kalynda	00:06:47
Play 08	Ivan, the First of the Czars	Kalynda	00:06:13
Play 09	The Fall of Novgorod the Great	Kalynda	00:14:59
Play 10	Ivan the Terrible	Kalynda	00:08:31
Play 11	The Conquest of Siberia	Kalynda	00:07:32
Play 12	The Macbeth of Russia	Kalynda	00:24:35
Play 13	The Era of Impostors	Kalynda	00:12:49
Play 14	The Book of Ancestry	Kalynda	00:05:34
Play 15	The Boyhood of Peter the Great	Kalynda	00:13:09
Play 16	Carpenter Peter of Zaandam	Linda Johnson	00:16:51
Play 17	The Fall of Strelitz	Linda Johnson	00:18:40
Play 18	The Crusade Against Beards and Cloaks	Ciufi Galeazzi	00:10:37
Play 19	Mazeppa, the Cossack Chief	tovarisch	00:10:31
Play 20	A Window Open to Europe	Linda Johnson	00:18:58
Play 21	From the Hovel to the Throne	Linda Johnson	00:17:02
Play 22	Buffooneries of the Russian Court	Ciufi Galeazzi	00:15:26
Play 23	How a Woman Dethroned a Man	DrPGould	00:16:58
Play 24	A Struggle for a Throne	Linda Johnson	00:13:15
Play 25	The Flight of the Kalmucks	Linda Johnson	00:35:56
Play 26	A Magical Transformation Scene	Ciufi Galeazzi	00:09:42
Play 27	Kosciusko and the Fall of Poland	DrPGould	00:08:19
Play 28	Suwarrow the Unconquerable	pmstrahm	00:16:48
Play 29	The Retreat of Napoleon's Grand Army	pmstrahm	00:11:28
Play 30	The Death-Struggle of Poland	pmstrahm	00:16:30
Play 31	Schamyl, the Hero of Circassia	pmstrahm	00:15:09
Play 32	The Charge of the Light Brigade	Larry Wilson	00:14:18
Play 33	The Fall of Sebastopol	Linda Johnson	00:15:21
Play 34	At the Gates of Constantinople	DrPGould	00:12:59
Play 35	The Nihilists and Their Work	Ciufi Galeazzi	00:11:41
Play 36	The Advance of Russia in Asia	Colleen McMahon	00:16:57
Play 37	The Railroad in Turkestan	Colleen McMahon	00:12:37
Play 38	An Escape from the Mines of Siberia	Colleen McMahon	00:15:18
Play 39	The Sea Fight in the Waters of Japan	Larry Wilson	00:19:14

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