The History of Russia Podcast

Today as the title suggests we're going to cover three main themes or subjects

Firstly, Paul's support of Napoleon’s march on India.

Secondly, we are going to spend some time trying to get to know Paul’s eldest son and heir, Alexander, who was a fascinating and genuinely complicated young man, with good reason.

And then we’ll finish things off by taking a look at some of the people around Paul who were starting to get seriously hacked-off with the Tsar himself and the direction that things in general were going.

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Today is another of those episodes, where in th early stages anyway, Russia is not the primary focus and is somewhat on the periphery because the real action is happening elsewhere and much of that is being driven by events in France

Having said that Paul, as you would probably expect, does manage to get involved and do some Paul-like things

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After featuring in 36 episodes, Catherine who had transformed Russia has departed the scene.

Which means that the 42 year old, father of 8, Pavel or Paul Petrovich Romanov is now the emperor of all the Russias.

Today, we’ll be taking a look a look back at what made Paul the man he was and we’ll also be covering the first couple of years of his reign to see how he dealt with his mother’s legacy

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This week we are covering three items - Russia’s further consolidation of its Alaskan territory, Catherine’s, post- Potemkin love life.and then finally, we’ll witness three deaths, one which in the great scope of things was pretty insignificant, another which would be sadly almost pathetically tragic and a third which would genuinely mark the end of an era.

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Today we are going to zoom in on that period just after the dust had settled — roughly 1792 onwards — and have a look at what Russia looked like from a geopolitical standpoint

We'll also be talking about a man, sadly for the last time, who had become one of the titans of Russian History. Grigory Potemkin. (in a way I'm glad because for some strange reason my pronunciation of his name was inconsistent to say the least)

And then we'll be spending some time with a general who, if you remember from the last episode, had won every major battle that he had been involved in - Alexander Suvorov. Which for the Polish/Lithuanian commonwealth would spell even more disaster.

And finally, we’ll take a quick peek at what was going on in France where the Ancien Regime was being turned upside down and what Catherine’s thought about it all.

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