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Episode 5: Around the World. The Tale of Ivan Goncharov
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...
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Episode 4: A Priest at War. The Tale of Father Dimitrii Smirnov
From the Baltic to the Black Sea, the First World War's eastern front massacred men by the thousand. Father Dimitrii Smirnov, along with hundreds...
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Episode 3: Murder in Venice. The Tale of Mariia Tarnovskaia
In 1910, Europe and Russia were rocked by a sensational murder trial: three Russians stood accused of conspiring to murder one of their compatriots...
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Episode 2: Riot in the Altai. The Tale of Chet and Chugul
In 1904, a shepherd and his daughter created a new religion in the Altai mountain ranges, leading to a violent confrontation with Russian settlers...
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Introduction
Tales from Imperial Russia is a fortnightly podcast narrating ordinary and extraordinary lives from the Russian Empire. In short episodes, we will avoid the...