Tales from Imperial Russia is a fortnightly podcast narrating ordinary and extraordinary lives from the Russian Empire. In short episodes, we will avoid the oft-retold stories of emperors and battles to focus on the mostly forgotten lives of individuals from an amazing array of locales, peoples, and circumstances.
This podcast is written and performed by Dr James White. For my academic articles, please see: https://urfu.academia.edu/JamesWhite.
To purchase my recent book, please see: https://www.amazon.com/Unity-Faith-Edinoverie-Orthodoxy-1800-1918/dp/0253049725/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=edinoverie&qid=1610272334&sr=8-1
Everyone in the late Russian Empire was in agreement: the country had a vodka problem. But what were its causes and how should it...
Andrei and Natalia Chikhachev, middling nobles, spent their lives running their small estate of Dorozhaevo in Vladimir province and raising their family. In this...
In 1852, the novelist and government bureaucrat Ivan Goncharov set sail on the frigate Pallada for a mission to closed-off Japan. This episode follows...