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Historical Tales, Volume VIII: Russian

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) (9 hr 6 min)

Chapters

The Ancient Scythians

Oleg the Varangian

The Vengeance of Queen Olga

Vladimir the Great

The Lawgiver of Russia

The Yoke of the Tartars

The Victory of the Don

Ivan, the First of the Czars

The Fall of Novgorod the Great

Ivan the Terrible

The Conquest of Siberia

The Macbeth of Russia

The Era of Impostors

The Book of Ancestry

The Boyhood of Peter the Great

Carpenter Peter of Zaandam

The Fall of Strelitz

The Crusade Against Beards and Cloaks

Mazeppa, the Cossack Chief

A Window Open to Europe

From the Hovel to the Throne

Buffooneries of the Russian Court

How a Woman Dethroned a Man

A Struggle for a Throne

The Flight of the Kalmucks

A Magical Transformation Scene

Kosciusko and the Fall of Poland

Suwarrow the Unconquerable

The Retreat of Napoleon's Grand Army

The Death-Struggle of Poland

Schamyl, the Hero of Circassia

The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Fall of Sebastopol

At the Gates of Constantinople

The Nihilists and Their Work

The Advance of Russia in Asia

The Railroad in Turkestan

An Escape from the Mines of Siberia

The Sea Fight in the Waters of Japan