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
Abandoned in 1852 when scarcely two weeks old, Vasilii Gerasimov ultimately became a child worker at the Kreenholm cotton factory, where he worked for...
In 1889, a small band of unlikely Russian colonists seized the abandoned fortress of Sagallo in today's Djibouti. Led by the would-be Cossack Nikolai...
In this episode, we look at the story of the oddly refined peasant wanderer Fedor Kuzmich, who was claimed by many to be the...