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

Eva March Tappan (1854 - 1930)

This is the sixth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world's history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Topics in Part VI include the Russian Empire, the fights for independence in Hungary and the Balkan states and the politics of early Turkey. - Summary by Sonia

Cast list for Wallenstein and the cuirassiers:
Terzky: alanmapstone / Wallenstein: Foon / Anspessade: Tomas Peter / Second Cuirassier: Eva Davis / Third Cuirassier: Monika M.C. / Butler: Nemo / Narrator: Sonia

Genre(s): Historical Fiction, War & Military Fiction, War & Military

Language: English

Group: World's Story

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Skirmish between cossacks and the imperial bodyguard, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille, (France 1848), painting, frontispiece	Sonia	00:02:00
Play 02	Russia Part I: Folk-tales and early history: Historical note	Sonia	00:02:38
Play 03	The imp and the crust, by Count Leo Tolstoy	Sonia	00:08:27
Play 04	The story of iron and the poison water, from the Kalevala	Sonia	00:07:20
Play 05	The country and customs of the Scythians (fifth century B.C.), by Herodotus	Sonia	00:15:31
Play 06	The vengeance of Queen Olga (about 945), from the chronicle of Nestor	Jim Locke	00:09:24
Play 07	Vladimir in search of a religion (about 988), by John S. C. Abbott	Jim Locke	00:10:56
Play 08	Russia Part II: In the days of Ivan the Terrible: Historical note	Alan Mapstone	00:02:50
Play 09	How Russia was freed from the Tartars (1480), by John S. C. Abbott	Jim Locke	00:10:32
Play 10	Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584), by Frances A. Shaw	Jim Locke	00:14:46
Play 11	Life at the Setch (fifteenth century), by Nikolai V. Gogol	Jim Locke	00:23:11
Play 12	The false Czar (1605), by Frances A. Shaw	Jim Locke	00:18:45
Play 13	The kremlin of Moscow, by Bayard Taylor	Jim Locke	00:17:10
Play 14	Russia Part III: Peter the Great: Historical note	Alan Mapstone	00:03:02
Play 15	A morning with Peter the Great (early in the eighteenth century), by Dmitri Merejkowski	Jim Locke	00:17:08
Play 16	How St. Petersburg was built (1703), by John S. C. Abbott	Tomas Peter	00:04:28
Play 17	A supposed letter from an English architect (1715), by Maurice Baring	Colleen McMahon	00:14:51
Play 18	Russia Part IV: From Catherine the Great to the invasion of Napoleon: Historical note	Kristine Bekere	00:02:28
Play 19	A day with Catherine the Great (1794), by Adrian Moyseevich Gribovski	Kristine Bekere	00:13:09
Play 20	Borodino (1812), by Alexander Sergeyevitch Pushkin	Nemo	00:05:55
Play 21	The burning of Moscow, by Louis Adolph Thiers	Colleen McMahon	00:08:21
Play 22	The crossing of the Beresina river (1812), by John S. C. Abbott	Colleen McMahon	00:10:01
Play 23	Passage of the Beresina, by J. H. Van Papendrecht, painting p. 130	Tomas Peter	00:02:13
Play 24	Russia Part V: Poland: Historical note	Foon	00:03:04
Play 25	The surrender of Kamenyetz (1672), by Henryk Sienkiewicz	Jim Locke	00:20:51
Play 26	Poland or Russia ? (1793), by Jane Porter	April6090	00:15:37
Play 27	The division of Poland, by Sir Edwin Arnold	Alan Mapstone	00:03:29
Play 28	The revolt in Warsaw, 1861, by Joseph Nicholas Robert-Fleury (French painter, 1792-1890), painting p. 158	Foon	00:02:50
Play 29	Russia Part VI: Siberia: Historical note	Tomas Peter	00:02:12
Play 30	The conquest of Siberia (1579-1584), by Count Leo Tolstoy	tovarisch	00:24:22
Play 31	Yermak, a folk-song	Tomas Peter	00:03:33
Play 32	How pardon was won for an exile (1808), by Madame Sophie Risteau Cottin	Devorah Allen	00:10:03
Play 33	On the march to Siberia (nineteenth century), by Baroness M. De Packh	April6090	00:09:04
Play 34	A Kirghis warrior, by Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagin (Russia, 1842-1904), painting p. 186	cathar maiden	00:02:24
Play 35	In a Tartar tent (about 1909), by Lindon Bates, Jr.	Colleen McMahon	00:17:49
Play 36	Russia Part VII: A coronation and three wars: Historical note	Foon	00:03:20
Play 37	The coronation of Alexander II (1855), by Count von Moltke	Colleen McMahon	00:10:54
Play 38	The emancipation of the serfs (1861), by Hezekiah Butterworth	cathar maiden	00:03:59
Play 39	The taking of the village (an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey), by Vsyevolod Mikhailovitch Garshin	tovarisch	00:12:24
Play 40	The capture of a redoubt (an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey), by Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagin	tovarisch	00:18:02
Play 41	Coaling at sea (1905), by Commander Vladimir Semenoff, of the Imperial Russian Navy	tovarisch	00:18:24
Play 42	Russia Part VIII: Life in modern Russia: Historical note	Tomas Peter	00:01:58
Play 43	The races on the Neva river (1870), by Théophile Gautier	techpsalti	00:09:59
Play 44	A little Jewish girl in Russia, by Mary Antin	April6090	00:09:26
Play 45	The fair of Nijni-Novgorod, by Edna Dean Proctor	Alan Mapstone	00:03:00
Play 46	Austria-Hungary Part I: From the Tartar invasion to the Reformation: Historical note	Availle	00:02:40
Play 47	The coming of the Tartars (1240), by Louis Felbermann	Jim Locke	00:07:00
Play 48	How Rudolf the First became Emperor (1273), by John S. C. Abbott	Jim Locke	00:15:39
Play 49	Stories of Rudolf, founder of the house of Hapsburg (thirteenth century), by William Coxe	Jim Locke	00:10:34
Play 50	How Naumburg was saved, by Jaroslav Cermak (Bohemian artist, - 1878), painting p. 270	Foon	00:01:35
Play 51	The deliverance of Prague (1420), by E. H. Gillett	Colleen McMahon	00:16:36
Play 52	A funeral menu of the sixteenth century (1509), from the old chronicles	Nemo	00:04:50
Play 53	The emperor Maximilian receiving the Venetian embassy, by Karl Ludwig Friedrich Becker (German artist, 1820-1900), painting p. 284	Nemo	00:02:48
Play 54	Austria-Hungary Part II: The religious wars of the seventeenth century: Historical note	Availle	00:02:10
Play 55	The devastation of St. Vitus's church (1619-1620), by Marie Hay	Colleen McMahon	00:16:27
Play 56	Wallenstein, the deposed general (1630), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller	Sonia	00:07:19
Play 57	Wallenstein and the cuirassiers (1634), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller	Group	00:14:57
Play 58	How John Sobieski saved Vienna from the Turks (1683), by John S. C. Abbott	realisticspeakers	00:10:06
Play 59	Austria-Hungary Part III: From Maria Theresa to the downfall of Napoleon: Historical note	Availle	00:02:59
Play 60	How Maria Theresa of Austria became King (1740), by John S. C. Abbott	April6090	00:11:20
Play 61	The command of Maria Theresa, by John S. C. Abbott	Larry Wilson	00:11:29
Play 62	Hohenlinden (1800), by Thomas Campbell	Monika M. C.	00:02:45
Play 63	The battle of Austerlitz (1805), by John S. C. Abbott	Tomas Peter	00:05:24
Play 64	How the French honored Joseph Haydn (1805), by ''Louisa Mühlbach'' (Klara M. Mundt)	Nemo	00:10:38
Play 65	Andreas Hofer rallying the Tyrolean mountaineers, by Franz von Defregger (Austrian painter, 1835), painting p. 344	Monika M. C.	00:02:16
Play 66	Austria-Hungary Part IV: The nineteenth century: Historical note	Availle	00:02:27
Play 67	After the battle of Szolnok (1849), by Maurus Jókai	Jim Locke	00:18:25
Play 68	The unlucky weathercock (1849), by Maurus Jókai	Jim Locke	00:12:22
Play 69	Kossuth's farewell (1849)	Sonia	00:05:57
Play 70	The salt mines of Wieliczka (1850), by Bayard Taylor	ToddHW	00:12:09
Play 71	Austria-Hungary Part V: Stories and poems of Bohemia, Hungary, and the Tyrol: Historical note	Tomas Peter	00:01:31
Play 72	The dog and the wolf, a Bohemian folk-tale, retold by Theodor Vernaleken	April6090	00:07:29
Play 73	The poor man and the king of the crows, a Magyar folk-tale, retold by Jeremiah Curtin	Devorah Allen	00:21:39
Play 74	St. Kümmerniss, a legend of the Tyrol	Nemo	00:05:39
Play 75	The legend of St. Kümmerniss, by François Joseph Heim (French artist, 1787-1865), painting p. 400	Nemo	00:01:22
Play 76	Stories of the gypsies	April6090	00:12:42
Play 77	Two Magyar poems	Foon	00:05:09
Play 78	A Csikos race, by Alexander Wagner (Hungarian artist, 1838), painting p. 408	Alan Mapstone	00:02:02
Play 79	The Balkan States: Historical note	Nemo	00:03:22
Play 80	Marko and the Turks (fifteenth century), an old Servian ballad	Sonia	00:07:21
Play 81	Montenegro, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Alan Mapstone	00:02:01
Play 82	An attack on the Bashi-Bazouks (1907), by Arthur D. Howden Smith	Jim Locke	00:28:36
Play 83	Herzegovinians returning to a village sacked by the Bashi-Bazouks, by Jaroslav Cermak (Bohemian artist, -1878), painting p. 434	Nemo	00:02:24
Play 84	The siege of Adrianople (1912), by Philip Gibbs	April6090	00:08:45
Play 85	The flight from Lule-Burgas (1912), by Bernard Grant	Jim Locke	00:19:07
Play 86	Turkey Part I: To the capture of Constantinople: Historical note	Kristine Bekere	00:03:04
Play 87	Constantinople, a city built to order (fourth century), by Edward Gibbon	Kristine Bekere	00:11:40
Play 88	The coming of the comet (1402), by Maurus Jókai	ToddHW	00:19:16
Play 89	Scanderbeg (about 1450), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	cathar maiden	00:07:29
Play 90	The fall of Constantinople (1453), by Edward Gibbon	Kristine Bekere	00:15:51
Play 91	Turkey Part II: Turkey at the height of her power: Historical note	Kristine Bekere	00:02:35
Play 92	The tribute of children, by Anonymous	Tomas Peter	00:06:06
Play 93	The little Janizary (about 1453), by James M. Ludlow	Jim Locke	00:19:04
Play 94	The surrender of Rhodes (1522), by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine	realisticspeakers	00:11:28
Play 95	A visit to the wife of Solyman the Magnificent (sixteenth century), translated from a Genoese letter	Sonia	00:03:34
Play 96	Dining with the Sultana (1718), by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu	April6090	00:07:58
Play 97	Turkey Part III: The sick man of Europe: Historical note	Alan Mapstone	00:02:31
Play 98	The last of the Janizaries (1826), by Maurus Jókai	realisticspeakers	00:19:28
Play 99	The muezzin, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French artist, 1824-1904), painting p. 528	Alan Mapstone	00:02:54
Play 100	''The House of Fear'' (1908), by Francis McCullagh	Jim Locke	00:21:19
Play 101	The silent army (1909), by Francis McCullagh	Nemo	00:11:03
Play 102	Turkey Part IV: Turkish stories: Historical note	Tomas Peter	00:01:04
Play 103	''The lamb bolted'', a legend of Turkish justice	Devorah Allen	00:06:20
Play 104	Stories of Nasr-Eddin Hoja	TJ Burns	00:06:14
Play 105	A Turkish friendship (eighteenth century), by Cheliby Yorgaki	Jim Locke	00:09:34
Play 106	Turkey Part V: Stories of Turkish life and customs: Historical note	Foon	00:01:47
Play 107	The first telegraph in Turkey (1854), by Sir J. William Whittall	Alan Mapstone	00:02:32
Play 108	Choosing a wife for the son, by Lucy M. J. Garnett	thestorygirl	00:04:30
Play 109	''Protestant bread'', by Cyrus Hamlin, D. D.	Foon	00:07:03
Play 110	The dancing dervishes, by Julia Pardoe	Devorah Allen	00:11:18
Play 111	Ceremony of dervishes at Scutari, by Albert Aublet (French artist, 1851), painting p. 574	Sonia	00:01:44
Play 112	A Turkish ''What for ?'', by Demetra Vaka	Sonia	00:08:02

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