Podcast Episodes

Episode 77 - Russia Attacks!

It's 1757 and for the first time in a long time the Russian army gets to flex its muscles.

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Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

Episode 76 - Perfidious Albion

In this episode we’ll be taking a closer look at the affair between Catherine and Poniatowsky and we’ll be checking in on yet another health scare. 

But as interesting as those subjects are, we'll be …

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

Episode 75 - An Ambassador calls

This time around there are Just two main items on the agenda  - The Empress Elizabeth’s ongoing, and so-far frustrated efforts, to secure the Romanov succession and the political machinations and int…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Episode 74 - In other news....

This week, probably much to everyone's relief, we will be taking a break from the ceaseless round of court intrigue and instead we’ll be looking at what else was going on in Russia during the Elizabe…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Episode 73 - Treading Water

This week, I'm afraid, it's more court based chicanery and Intrigue (hence the title). However to avoid just doing a rinse and repeat, I’m going to speed things up a bit and the aim will be to get fr…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Episode 72 - Controlled, Isolated and Miserable

This week we’ll be covering the years between 1745 and 1748 and looking at how Peter, Catherine and Elizabeth were all getting along through the events and outcomes related to yet another series of c…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Episode 71 - Sophie becomes Catherine

In this weeks episode we rejoin the main chronological narrative and take a look at the ups and downs of our key characters during  1744 and 1745..

On the up were the Empress Elizabeth, Sophie of Anha…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Episode 70 - State of Empire, State of Mind

In this episode we take a step back from the goings on at the Russian court and the war of the Austrian Succession and instead take a peek at the overall state of the Russian Empire and the overall s…

Published on 2 years ago

Episode 69 - Peter and ... Sophie?

It's January 1744 and Peter Fyodorovich the heir to the Russian throne and his aunt Elizabeth have got some German visitors to entertain and one of them is the almost 15 year old Sophie Friederike Au…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Episode 68 - The Lopukhina Conspiracy

This weeks episode is centered around the eponymous Lopukhina Conspiracy but who is doing the conspiring and who is being conspired against?

Plus events in Sweden are brought to a head, George II, the…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago