Podcast Episodes

Episode 87 - Time belongs not to me but to the empire.

This time around we’ll be taking a look at the steps that Catherine would take to kick start and consolidate her rule - how she would deal with the people who had helped her to seize power and how sh…

Published on 10 months, 1 week ago

Episode 86 - Zero Sum

So in today’s episode we’ll be taking another break from the chronological narrative and looking instead at mainly, the last three decades and a bit, at what went on in Russia from a commercial and b…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

Episode 85 - ‘Colicgate’

In this week’s episode ware going to look at four main items

A short appraisal of Peter’s reign, a longer appraisal of Elizabeth’s time in charge, a look at the recent coup’s winners and losers and th…

Published on 1 year ago

Episode 84 - State of the Nations (5) 1762

A longer than usual episode which provides an overall look at the world in 1762 - just at the point when Catherine was starting her reign in Russia.

Britannia ruled the waves (or was starting to) and …

Published on 1 year ago

Episode 83 - Death in the afternoon

Whilst the new regime is finalising it's coup, over at Oranienbaum, a blissfully ignorant Peter has just drilled his Holstein guards and is now on his way to Peterhof to celebrate his name day.

But w…

Published on 1 year ago

Episode 82 - The New Empress of all the Russias - almost.....

This time around we’ll be looking at the latest events in the Seven Years War, Peter’s Danish campaign, how becoming Tsar had affected his relationship with his wife Catherine and finally, and as the…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Episode 81 - The Empress is dead, long live the...

This time around we’ll be looking at the events that unfolded in the years 1761 and 1762 which, as the title suggests, sadly involves the end of the line for the Empress Elizabeth.

But, in an age when…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

Episode 80 - A Fresh Start

This time around we’ll be covering the years 1759 and 1760.

Years in which the Grand Duchess Catherine and Frederick the Great will be taking stock of their own respective situations and enacting pla…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Episode 79 - The Three Letters

It's Spring 1758 and Grand Duchess Catherine is attempting to extricate herself from yet another difficult situation.

Meanwhile, over in Prussia, Frederick the Great, despite having just won major ba…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Episode 78 - Death, Madness and Banishment

This week we’ll be putting the seven years war to one side whilst we concentrate instead on events that took place in Russia during 1757 and 1758 which, in no particular order, include the reasons fo…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago