Podcast Episodes

Episode 97 - You’re going up and I’m going down

In recent episodes we've seen how various major events - the war with the Ottomans, the first partition of Poland, Smallpox, Pugachev, and the Moscow plague outbreak, occupied every waking hour of Ca…

Published on 8 hours ago

Episode 96 - The Pugachevshchina

Pugachev's rebellion gathers steam but Catherine the Great, who has other things to worry about, fails to take it seriously.

Once again, some parts of this episode are, to say the least, a bit on the …

Published on 3 weeks ago

Episode 95 - Variolation, Expansion and Rebellion

In the first part of the episode we’ll be heading back to the 1760s and looking at the steps Catherine and others had taken to counter the effects of another of the 18th century’s fatal diseases - th…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Episode 94 - War, Plague and Peace

In today’s episode and as per the title we’ll be looking at three major items

Firstly the Russo-Turkish war, which we’ll be bringing to a close, secondly we’ll cover an outbreak of the plague and then…

Published on 3 months ago

Episode 93 - Three slices of Polish Pie

Battleships are at the ready in Cheshme Bay and Frederick the Great comes up with a very cunning plan

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Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 92 - Billiards, Tennis or Infection?

Grigory Potemkin makes his mark at court and the next installment of the Russo-Ottoman wars gets underway.

Oh, and I make not one, not two but three almost catastrophic errors.

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Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Episode 91 - The last King of Poland

This time around we’ll look into what the Turks objected to, see who the next, and last King of Poland will be and investigate how this whole palaver resulted in a full scale war between Russia and t…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 90 - Poles Apart

On the home front Catherine continues to be thwarted.

However, in the field of foreign diplomacy, she plays a blinder (or does she?)

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Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

Episode 89 - The Serfs and the Nakaz

This time around we’ll be taking a look at two part-related subjects, The condition of Serfdom and Catherine's legal reforms or Nakaz.

However if you are expecting a series of wholesale, fundamental …

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 88 - The Khitrovo Affair and the Mirovich Plot

This time around, and as the episode title indicates, we’ll be covering two main incidents, 1763’s Khitrovo Affair which would have implications for the man of the moment, Catherine’s lover, Grigory …

Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago