Podcast appearances and mentions of Alexander II

The Emancipation Statute was unveiled by Emperor Alexander II: March 3rd, 1861, liberating the serfs of Russia. The culmination of years of bureaucratic efforts and peasant uprisings, the legislation marked a decisive break from the past and aimed to align Russia with European norms - whilst The United States still relied anachronistically on slave labour. Until this day, the institution of serfdom, though distinct from slavery, was nonetheless marked by profound inequalities and limitations on personal freedom; and, while serfs enjoyed certain legal protections and familial ties to the land, they were subject to the arbitrary whims of their landlords and bore the burden of taxation without commensurate representation. In this episode, The Retrospectors pick over Alexander's reformist agenda; explain why despite the radical nature of the reforms, millions of his people were still deeply unhappy; and consider the surprising limitations of a bombproof carriage… Further Reading: • ‘Biography of Alexander II, Russia's Reformist Tsar (ThoughtCo, 2018): https://www.thoughtco.com/alexander-ii-biography-4174256 • ‘The Other Emancipation Proclamation' (The New York Times, 2011): https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/the-other-emancipation-proclamation/ • ‘Understand Russia: Emancipation of Russia's Serfs' (Modern Wall Street, 2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLfoJTWjgJ4 This episode first premiered in 2024, for members of

Für das Attentat auf den russischen Zaren Alexander II. wird Vera Figner zu lebenslanger Haft auf der Schlüsselburg verurteilt. Nach 20 Jahren kommt sie frei - und ist es dennoch nicht. Von Marfa Heimbach.

In his Sevastopol Sketches, Tolstoy develops his ability to depict the reality of death within military conflict.   His proficiency stemmed from experience. Most notably, Tolstoy's military service included three years in the Caucuses and action during the Crimean War (1853-56), both as a junior artillery officer.During his time near Chechnya (north of Georgia and west of Dagestan), Tolstoy observed such brutal Russian tactics as punitive raids and the indiscriminate the shelling of small villages. He was also affected by the burning of forests to deny Chechens cover.  This area hosts a Muslim population by reason of Ottoman influence.  Russia has attempted to purge Chechens from what Russia claimed as a southern frontier multiple times and this area remains filled with tension – an inheritance of the aforementioned rivalry. With respect to the Crimean War, in 1853, Czar Nicholas declared war on the Ottoman Empire, Russia's historical rival.  Nicholas asserted the obligation to protect Christians in Ottoman territory and reasserted land-claims in the Danubian principalities. Russian leadership has long-wished to retake Istanbul (Constantinople), which was a center of Christianity for centuries. Napoleon III was at the forefront of the response to the Czar's ambitions in 1853. A coalition (Turks, French & English) united to neutralize Russian expansion and protect the balance of power in Europe. It was hardly lost on Tolstoy that Russia served as a similar bulwark against Napoleon I. Tolstoy lived through the great humiliation of losing of the Crimean War but immortalized one of Russia's great triumphs (repelling Napoleon I in 1812), which makes the great influences on him A Tale of Two Napoleons. A thread through The Sevastopol Sketches and War & Peace is that Tolstoy conveys war's horrific nature.  He does not glorify the subject. The Sketches involve three vignettes of the Siege: November of 1854, May of 1855; and August of 1855.   It was late in the Summer of 1855 when Sevastopol finally fell after an 11-month attack.   The Sketches read like a novella.   The first takes the reader on tour of Sevastopol – from the relative safety of a particular bay, through an infirmary, marketplace, and finally toward the front line. Notably, we are taken inside the Assembly Hall -- a make-shift hospital that is filled with causalities and disease.  Tolstoy then depicts the activity of soldiers and citizens. He discusses merchants going about their trade as well as carriage drivers delivering goods and transporting the dead. The second vignette delves into the senseless vanity of war and pursuit of truth, which Tolstoy describes as the hero of any effort. The last and longest story provides a view of the end of the Siege, through the eyes of fictional brothers. We are given a glimpse of the spectacle of incoming and outgoing artillery, the charges of the allies, and the valiant defense. Amidst the Crimean war, Czar Nicholas died in March of 1855 and Alexander II took the throne, who hold the reputation of a reformer. There was societal reflection that so much of the fighting was done by serfs tied to the land. These serfs were exposed to ideas of freedom and nationhood and there was a national reckoning that their system could not stand.  The serfs (over 20 million souls) were freed in 1861.Tolstoy also proceeds on one of his great explorations - regarding the cause of historical events. He finds that people hold the ultimate power and are somehow (all at once), ready to be moved. This is opposed to the theory a few great leaders move men.   Lastly, the experience of the Crimean War transformed Tolstoy from traditional patriot to an everlasting dissident.

Schemes, preparations, and solidifications…oh my! Here is another chapter in our tale of a pope and his vassals, which, after a three-episode peek into Eastern Roman history, will directly set up something huge that's about to happen. We're turning another corner here as the narratives begin to take a wider view of European politics, but keep an eye on Duke Robert, the Old Fox, as he prepares for his most ambitious conquest to date! Members-Only Series on Patreon: With subscriptions starting at just one dollar per month, consider joining our Supporting Listeners Patreon group where you can experience whole series not available on the public podcast, including but not limited to Poland's 11th century, the background information of what's happening on the Continent during Duke William's Conquest of England, the papacy of Alexander II, and so much more. Currently, we are on the series entitled “The Book of Alexios” detailing Alexios Komnenos's rise to power and it will extend through his entire reign as emperor, providing a crucial backdrop to the Crusades. https://www.patreon.com/FortunesWheelPodcast.  Social Media: YouTube Page: Fortune's Wheel Podcast Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/fortunes.wheel.3  Twitter Page: https://twitter.com/WheelPodcast

On this episode, Alexios Komnenos storms Constantinople in a bid to take the crown of Eastern Rome for himself.  Patreon: With subscriptions starting at just one dollar per month, consider joining our Supporting Listeners Patreon group where you can experience whole series not available on the public podcast, including but not limited to Poland's 11th century, the background information of what's happening on the Continent during Duke William's Conquest of England, the papacy of Alexander II, and so much more. Currently, we are on the series entitled “The Book of Alexios” detailing Alexios Komnenos's rise to power and it will extend through his entire reign as emperor, providing a crucial backdrop to the Crusades. Patreon Series 4: The Book of AlexiosBackground for this series can be found between episodes 104 and 106. This series fits between public episodes 119 and 133. Social Media: YouTube Page: Fortune's Wheel Podcast Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/fortunes.wheel.3 Twitter Page: https://twitter.com/WheelPodcast

On this episode, we iron out all the details leading up to Alexios Komnenos's taking of the crown of Eastern Rome. Patreon: With subscriptions starting at just one dollar per month, consider joining our Supporting Listeners Patreon group where you can experience whole series not available on the public podcast, including but not limited to Poland's 11th century, the background information of what's happening on the Continent during Duke William's Conquest of England, the papacy of Alexander II, and so much more. Currently, we are on the series entitled “The Book of Alexios” detailing Alexios Komnenos's rise to power and it will extend through his entire reign as emperor, providing a crucial backdrop to the Crusades. Patreon Series 4: The Book of AlexiosBackground for this series can be found between episodes 104 and 106. This series fits between public episodes 119 and 132. Social Media: YouTube Page: Fortune's Wheel Podcast Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/fortunes.wheel.3  Twitter Page: https://twitter.com/WheelPodcast

Join us this month and explore the love stories of the past.Over the next few weeks we'll be sharing with you our chats to various historians and we'll be covering all the ways that Royals can come together, be it through arranged marriage, secret engagements or chance meetings. My Heart Flies to Your Service... On this episode of our Valentines Series, we're looking at couples, where a monarch or a senior royal made a match against society rules and definitely against convention of the day.To help us get to know there couples better, we invited Chris Riley & Catherine Curzon.Chris tells us about three medieval couples, or rather one king with a series of boyfriends, and two couples whose stead-fast yet unlikely unions produced Henry VII. Love was in the air? Love was writing the rules.Catherine the Great (sorry, Catherine Curzon) tells us all about Catherine I, second wife to Peter the Great, and Alexander II of Russia, who made a morganatic marriage to a much younger woman, but which union turned to love. Or did it?Chris writes for The Historians Magazine, please find it here:https://thehistoriansmagazine.com/Our favourite book of Catherine's when it comes to the Georgian era; it covers most of the courts of Europe and connects the royal dots in most surprising of ways. P.S. If you love your Romanovs or Marie Antoinette, this is a must!https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Life-in-the-Georgian-Court-Hardback/p/12109/aid/1238 .For more history fodder please visit https://www.ifitaintbaroque.art/ and https://www.reignoflondon.com/To book a walking tour with Natalie and talk more about the medieval Royal London, please visithttps://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/london-the-royal-british-kings-and-queens-walking-tour-t426011/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we look at how conservative monarchs in the middle of the 19th century will begin to adopt liberal and nationalistic measures in order to strengthen their power. Specifically, we look at Napoleon III in France, Alexander II in Russia, and Franz Joseph I in Austria-Hungary.

For this episode, we're sharing a conversation between the Symphony of southeast Texas's own Maestro Chelsea Tipton II and conductor and Port Arthur native Glenn Alexander II from the most recent Bayoulands radio broadcast. For more information about Symphony of Southeast Texas performances go to sost.org. Thanks for listening!

Since the 13th Century, the banner of the Scottish royal house has been a lion. From then until the Union of the Crowns in 1603, four different dynasties engaged in a seemingly endless struggle to claim the banner and the throne. We start with the first big dynastic struggle for the banner of the lion between the ‘Margaretsons' and the ‘MacWilliams'. Both families descend from Malcom (Canmore) III via different wives. The Macwilliams sprout from first wife, Queen Ingibjorg, while the Margaretsons claim the second wife, St.Margaret, as ancestral matriarch.Who should wear the crown remains a bone of contention between the two factions for decades, but by 1214 it's the Margaretsons in the hot-seat with Alexander II. Now here's a man who knows the value of brutality, and unfortunately for everyone else, is not afraid to use it. It's Alexander II who cuts off the hands and feet of eighty men (although they had just roasted a Bishop alive). He sees the Macwilliams are a threat that must be extinguished as they try to hold the Northern strongholds of Moray and Badenoch. Alexander hunts them all down until only a single threat remains.With the help of historians Professor Richard Oram and Dr Susan Marshall, Len and Susan discover that the fictional machinations in Game of Thrones are nothing compared to real life Scottish history.Presenters: Len Pennie and Susan Morrison Producers: Louise Yeoman and Lynsey Moyes Executive Producer: Peter McManus

We begin a series on the Russian Revolution with a crucial event that happened 36 years prior to it, when a group of Russian nihilists assassinated the emperor Alexander II.

Joel (@JoelPearl) and Cresta (@CrestaTheeStarr) review the debut episode of TNA iMPACT for January 18. 2024:- Josh Alexander vs. Will Ospreay II- Nic Nemeth Speaks- Tasha Steelz vs. Xia Brookside- Eric Young & Frankie Kazarian vs. The Grizzled Young Vets- X Division Scramble match: “Speedball” Mike Bailey vs. Vikingo vs. Jake Something vs. Kushida vs. Trey Miguel vs. Laredo KidOur Sponsors:* Check out eBay Auto: https://www.ebay.com/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/fightful-pro-wrestling-and-mma-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Our weekly show is here breaking down all things TNA WRESTLING. We knew that HARD TO KILL would mark the dawning of a new era & we also got 4 new TNA CHAMPIONS! Total Nonstop Action is back and TNA is here to stay. We are in LAS VEGAS at PALMS CASINO breaking down all of the results of HARD TO KILL and celebrating the action in the FALL OUT with the first edition of the SNAKES EYES tapings ! WILL OSPREAY vs. JOSH ALEXANDER II was as advertised and an early contender for 2024 match of the year! We talk about all of the TNA news of the week & go through the episode from Thursday night on AXS. We will preview everything you need to know about everything on the TNA wrestling calendar.

Inför förspelet till Nu blir det historias enorma serie om Rysslands sista tsar, Nikolaj II, berättar Cornelia om massmordet på Nikolajs farfar Alexander II. En rysk tsar dör inte ensam!Följ oss på instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nublirdethistoria/Maila oss på zimwaypodcast (at) gmail (punkt) comKlippning av Cornelia Boberg. Musik av David Oscarsson. Lyssna på mer av Davids musik här: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4TlPapBXUu5nmWfz5Powcx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cornelia fortsätter att berätta om massmordet på Alexander II inför Nu bli det historias serie om Rysslands sista tsar Nikolaj IIFölj oss på instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nublirdethistoria/Maila oss på zimwaypodcast (at) gmail (punkt) comKlippning av Cornelia Boberg. Musik av David Oscarsson. Lyssna på mer av Davids musik här: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4TlPapBXUu5nmWfz5Powcx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this edition of Channeling History, we explore Russian history and how it affects modern Russia by channeling three Tzars, Peter the Great, Alexander the II and Nicholas II. They discuss how historic reigns affect the people of Russia today. Please subscribe to our channel, give us a like and tell your friends.

In der Regel treffen sich Staatschefs und gekrönte Häupter bei großen Banketten oder auf imposanten Bällen. Erhaben, elegant, durchaus mit Glanz und Glamour geht es da zu. Napoleon III., Zar Alexander und Wilhelm I., König von Württemberg aber verabreden sich auf dem Volksfest.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 928, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: a czar is born 1: Born 1530, died 1584, known for his extreme despotism. Ivan the Terrible. 2: Born 1868, died 1918, 'nuff said. Nicholas II. 3: Born 1551, died 1605, inspired a drama by Pushkin and an opera by Mussorgsky. Boris Godunov. 4: Born 1818, died 1881, freed the serfs and sold Alaska. Alexander II. 5: Born 1672, died 1725, built Russia's second-largest city. Peter the Great. Round 2. Category: elephant odds and ends 1: For years an elephant of this color was on Thailand's flag; then we guess they finally unloaded it. white. 2: If you have hallucinations from drinking, you've seen these. pink elephants. 3: Better known as this, the aepyornis, like the dodo, is extinct. elephant bird. 4: The corms of elephant's ear, which is also called this, are the main ingredient in poi. taro. 5: In Hinduism, Ganesha is the elephant-headed son of Parvati and this destroyer. Shiva. Round 3. Category: films of the '90s 1: Meryl Streep as an Iowa farm wife finds a once-in-a-lifetime love with Clint Eastwood in this 1995 film. The Bridges of Madison County. 2: Gene Hackman played the commander of the USS Alabama, a nuclear sub, in this 1995 hit. Crimson Tide. 3: The tag line of this film was "A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins". The Fugitive. 4: In this highly acclaimed film, Oscar nominee Anjelica Huston played a professional con artist. The Grifters. 5: Title Kansas City couple played by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in a 1990 film. "Mr. And Mrs. Bridge". Round 4. Category: stones 1: Stone which vibrates at high speeds enabling your electronic watch to work. quartz. 2: It's divided into Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic. the Stone Age. 3: The heel stone, the slaughter stone and the station stones are among those found at this British landmark. Stonehenge. 4: Looking at these 3 ugly sisters got the ancient Greeks stoned. the Gorgons. 5: A heavy weight or burden around the neck, as mentioned in Luke 17. millstone. Round 5. Category: the inc.-uisition 1: This Michigan company formerly had a 30-minute pizza delivery guarantee. Domino's Pizza. 2: The rhyming New England chain Stop and do this is mentioned in the classic song "Roadrunner". Shop. 3: Made for over a century by Hillerich and Bradsby Inc., it's the best-known brand of baseball bat. Louisville Slugger. 4: In the '90s this clothing retailer introduced a "Crewcuts" line for kids. J. Crew. 5: In 1989 the company called Corning these Works became simply Corning Inc.. Corning Glass Works. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

In the never-ending see-saw that was Romanov rule in Russia, a truly forward-thinking Tsar finally came to power in 1855. Alexander II accomplished Catherine the Great's never-achieved emancipation of Russia's serfs, among a host of other good-government reforms, leading his newly free and suddenly energized public to call him Alexander the Liberator. Likely influenced by a grand tour of Europe when he was a young man (and during which he and a 20-year-old Queen Victoria may have had a bit of a romance), he took the throne amidst plenty of chaos left over from his father, Nicholas I's, rule. Russia was still bogged down in the Crimean War, for instance, a situation Alexander resolved by simply withdrawing Russia from the conflict and negotiating a disadvantageous peace that allowed him to focus on the stuff he really liked. Under his leadership, with freedom in fairly full flower in Russia, new business formation went through the roof, new rail lines were built to expand commerce and promote defense, and municipalities and regions gained more rights for self-government. Trials by jury were the new fashion, and Russia even found a way to rid itself of a money-losing North American colony on the western coast of Canada. But Russia remained Russia, and radical groups still chafed under Romanov rule. Alexander survived a number of assassination attempts during his reign, but in 1881, a bombing finally left him mortally wounded - and the bombers' stories would go on to intersect with Russian history in a profound way just a few decades later. Listen ad-free at patreon.com/trashyroyalspodcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Written & Starring Stephen WinchellAudio Production & Recording by Adam GoronDirected by Lara UnnerstallMusic by Takuya Yoshida & Stephen WinchellREFERENCES:1. February 9th, 1993, 112 Beacon Street, Boston (Frasier S9E14 Juvenilia),  (Cheers S11E7 The Girl in the Plastic Bubble).2. His career, at one point an aspect of his life he had been the most proud of, had grown stagnant. (Frasier S1E1 The Good Son)3. He had once considered this woman the “candle that [lit his] way.” (Cheers S7E19 The Gift of the Woodi)4. her affair was the most painful and humiliating experience of his entire life. (Frasier S1E8 Beloved Infidel)5. Not a real bear- certainly not - but a pewter bear - about a foot tall with a clock sculpted into its chest. It was crafted in Moscow for Alexander II of Russia.  (Frasier S7E7 A Tsar Is Born)6. This one we know a little bit about; he liked to smoke  (Frasier S3E17 High Crane Drifter)7. and he liked to travel. (Frasier S7E2 Father of the Bride)8. He also had a long career as a police officer, (Frasier S7E18 Hot Pursuit)9. and he married a woman who had a fondness for corncob pipes  (Frasier S6E7 The Seal who Came to Dinner)10. Marty Crane was born in [...] Seattle, WA (Frasier S1E1 The Good Son)11. His father was emotionally distant, the type of man who went his whole life without telling his son that he loved him. (Frasier S2E20 Breaking The Ice)12. Marty had a brother, Walter.  (Frasier S5E16 Beware of Greeks)13. Marty had a sister - Vivian - who was known as ‘The Mouth.' (Frasier S1E8 Beloved Infidel)14. He would personally oversee monthly mixers affectionately named Marty Parties, (Frasier S5E22 The Life of the Party)15. His own personal pièce de résistance was a suede jacket that left his dates purring  (Frasier S10E17 Kenny on the Couch)16. Marty had an uncompromising moral strictness (Frasier S8E20 The Wizard And Roz)17. Marty served under Lt. Franks  (Frasier S8E20 The Wizard And Roz)18. Hank “Bud” Farrell,  Stinky, Wolfman, and who can forget Boom Boom (Frasier S4E1 The Two Mrs. Cranes)19. Together they fought in foxholes (Frasier S6E10 Good Samaritan)20. and their assignments took them to places like the South Korean county of Pyeongchang (Frasier S6E7 The Seal who Came to Dinner)21. and the North Korean city of) Panmunjom. (Frasier S3E17 High Crane Drifter)22. During their time in Korea, Marty cheated death. (Frasier S9E24 Moons Over Seattle)23. Marty, ever the ladies man, seemed to charm the women of Pyeongchang, and he found time to date (Frasier S6E7 The Seal who Came to Dinner)24. There he met Stan Wojadubakowsk (Frasier S7E17 Whine Club)25. (Marty's father, a secret sentimentalist, gave Marty his beloved bolo tie to commemorate the graduation) (Frasier S4E8 Our Father, Whose Art Ain't Heaven)26. As a chalk outline was made around the body, something caught Marty's eye.  (Frasier S4E24 Odd Man Out)27. Through the flashing blue lights of the coroner's wagon, he spotted the silhouette of a young woman, and in that moment he realized that he was a goner. (Frasier S2E8  Adventures in Paradise Part 1)28. While Marty's ancestors came to America with some stolen money and a pewter bear, Hester's arrived on these shores with a personal fortune, (Cheers S4E2 Woody Goes Belly Up)29. She had a sister, Louise (Frasier S3E3 Martin Does It His Way)30. and a brother, Frank.  (Frasier S5E7 My Fair Frasier)31. a non-syndicated radio host (Frasier S9E22 Frasier Has Spokane)32. It's very clear that Frasiers' ex-wife took a lot of money in their divorce.  (Frasier S3E16 Look Before you Leap)33. Hester drove Marty crazy; she was always so upbeat (Frasier S3E10 It's Hard to Say Goodbye if you Won't Leave)34. and once got caught naked in the back of Marty's squad car. (Frasier S5E19 Frasier's Gotta Have It)35. They ran into a rough patch and broke up for a time. (Frasier S3E13 Moondance)36. During this break Marty pursued other women, but nothing took. (Frasier S3E13 Moondance)37. He was extremely nervous the night he proposed and got drunk, likely on his beloved Ballantine beer. (Frasier S9E15 The Proposal)38. Marty, undaunted, worked up the courage to ask again. To help the proposal move in a happier direction he whipped up a batch of hot buttered rum, one of his specialties. This second time, Hester accepted. (Frasier S5E14 The Ski Lodge)39. Hester was pregnant. (Frasier S9E15 The Proposal)40. Getting married was a good start, so in Saint Bartholomew's Church, a very pregnant Hester waddled down the aisle to meet Marty. The minister could not contain his shock (Frasier S9E15 The Proposal)41. She began an experiment with a pair of lab rats named Frasier and Niles. She kept meticulous notes about them, she monitored what they ate, their behavior, and she became quite fond of the little creatures. It was with a heavy heart that she recorded the death of Frasier on April 14th, 1953. Frasier S4E22 Are You Being Served?)42. Shortly thereafter in Seattle, WA, Frasier Crane was born (Frasier S1E21 Travels with Martin)

Alexander III of Macedon posed as the ‘Son of Zeus', but followed the advice of his biological father, King Philip II, to get out of Macedon and “seek a kingdom equal to yourself”. Between 336 and 323 BC, Alexander the Great created the largest empire the Middle East had known. Macedonian expansionism had begun under Philip II, with his son Alexander II picking up and honing the armed forces created by his father. But where Philip's strategic aims were to dominate all of Greece and Western Asia Minor, Alexander's sight was set on bringing the Persian Empire to heel. And as he moved from sieges and massacres to battle after victorious battle, his ambitions grew further – the conquest of Afghanistan and India. How did he keep his Macedonian and Greek companions motivated? Without him to lead, they did not know how to get back? Dr Andrew Fear, Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Manchester, joins Paul and Beatrice to tell us about the strategies of Alexander. An Oxonian, he has a spate of publications on Alexander and on warfare in Antiquity, with contributions to the Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare (CUP 2007) and to the forthcoming Cambridge History of Strategy, co-edited by Beatrice, and Isabelle Duyvesteyn. He is co-editor with Dr Jamie Wood of A Companion to Isidore of Seville (Brill, 2015).

Thanks to our sponsor: https://www.betterhelp.com/rocky gets you 10% off! Rocky and her family take Manhattan. Plus, Barbie World, cell phone so good, and AI vs. Dogs! Comedian and returning member of The Party God Squad Nick Alexander is back and his story is A LOT! But damn, is it a good one.

The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia (Northwestern UP, 2022) explores the fraught relationship between writers and lawyers in the four decades following Alexander II's judicial reforms. Nineteenth-century Russian literature abounds in negative images of lawyers and the law. Literary scholars have typically interpreted these representations either as the common, cross‑cultural critique of lawyerly unscrupulousness and greed or as an expression of Russian hostility toward Western legalism, seen as antithetical to traditional Russian values. The Letters and the Law is the first book to frame the conflict in terms of the two professions' competition for cultural authority. Anna Schur combines historical research and literary analysis to argue that the first generations of Russian trial lawyers shaped their professional identity with an eye to the celebrated figure of the writer and that they considered their own activities to be a form of verbal art. A fuller understanding of writers' antipathy to the law, Schur contends, must take into account this overlooked cultural backdrop. Laced with the better‑known critique of the lawyer's legalistic proclivities and lack of moral principle are the writer's reactions to a whole network of explicit and implicit claims of similarity between the two professions' goals, methods, and missions that were central to the lawyer's professional ideal. Viewed in this light, writers' critiques of the law and lawyers emerge as a concerted effort at protecting literature's exclusive cultural status in the context of modernization and the rapidly expanding public sphere. The study draws upon a mix of well-known and rarely studied nineteenth-century authors and texts—with particular attention paid to Fyodor Dostoevsky and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin—and on a wide range of nonliterary sources, including courtroom speeches, guides to forensic oratory, legal treatises, and specialized press. Anna Schur is a professor of English at Keene State College in New Hampshire. She is the author of Wages of Evil: Dostoevsky and Punishment (Northwestern University Press). Yelizaveta Raykhlina is a historian of Russia and Eurasia and holds a PhD from Georgetown University. She is a faculty member at New York University. To learn more, visit her website or follow her on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia (Northwestern UP, 2022) explores the fraught relationship between writers and lawyers in the four decades following Alexander II's judicial reforms. Nineteenth-century Russian literature abounds in negative images of lawyers and the law. Literary scholars have typically interpreted these representations either as the common, cross‑cultural critique of lawyerly unscrupulousness and greed or as an expression of Russian hostility toward Western legalism, seen as antithetical to traditional Russian values. The Letters and the Law is the first book to frame the conflict in terms of the two professions' competition for cultural authority. Anna Schur combines historical research and literary analysis to argue that the first generations of Russian trial lawyers shaped their professional identity with an eye to the celebrated figure of the writer and that they considered their own activities to be a form of verbal art. A fuller understanding of writers' antipathy to the law, Schur contends, must take into account this overlooked cultural backdrop. Laced with the better‑known critique of the lawyer's legalistic proclivities and lack of moral principle are the writer's reactions to a whole network of explicit and implicit claims of similarity between the two professions' goals, methods, and missions that were central to the lawyer's professional ideal. Viewed in this light, writers' critiques of the law and lawyers emerge as a concerted effort at protecting literature's exclusive cultural status in the context of modernization and the rapidly expanding public sphere. The study draws upon a mix of well-known and rarely studied nineteenth-century authors and texts—with particular attention paid to Fyodor Dostoevsky and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin—and on a wide range of nonliterary sources, including courtroom speeches, guides to forensic oratory, legal treatises, and specialized press. Anna Schur is a professor of English at Keene State College in New Hampshire. She is the author of Wages of Evil: Dostoevsky and Punishment (Northwestern University Press). Yelizaveta Raykhlina is a historian of Russia and Eurasia and holds a PhD from Georgetown University. She is a faculty member at New York University. To learn more, visit her website or follow her on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia (Northwestern UP, 2022) explores the fraught relationship between writers and lawyers in the four decades following Alexander II's judicial reforms. Nineteenth-century Russian literature abounds in negative images of lawyers and the law. Literary scholars have typically interpreted these representations either as the common, cross‑cultural critique of lawyerly unscrupulousness and greed or as an expression of Russian hostility toward Western legalism, seen as antithetical to traditional Russian values. The Letters and the Law is the first book to frame the conflict in terms of the two professions' competition for cultural authority. Anna Schur combines historical research and literary analysis to argue that the first generations of Russian trial lawyers shaped their professional identity with an eye to the celebrated figure of the writer and that they considered their own activities to be a form of verbal art. A fuller understanding of writers' antipathy to the law, Schur contends, must take into account this overlooked cultural backdrop. Laced with the better‑known critique of the lawyer's legalistic proclivities and lack of moral principle are the writer's reactions to a whole network of explicit and implicit claims of similarity between the two professions' goals, methods, and missions that were central to the lawyer's professional ideal. Viewed in this light, writers' critiques of the law and lawyers emerge as a concerted effort at protecting literature's exclusive cultural status in the context of modernization and the rapidly expanding public sphere. The study draws upon a mix of well-known and rarely studied nineteenth-century authors and texts—with particular attention paid to Fyodor Dostoevsky and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin—and on a wide range of nonliterary sources, including courtroom speeches, guides to forensic oratory, legal treatises, and specialized press. Anna Schur is a professor of English at Keene State College in New Hampshire. She is the author of Wages of Evil: Dostoevsky and Punishment (Northwestern University Press). Yelizaveta Raykhlina is a historian of Russia and Eurasia and holds a PhD from Georgetown University. She is a faculty member at New York University. To learn more, visit her website or follow her on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia (Northwestern UP, 2022) explores the fraught relationship between writers and lawyers in the four decades following Alexander II's judicial reforms. Nineteenth-century Russian literature abounds in negative images of lawyers and the law. Literary scholars have typically interpreted these representations either as the common, cross‑cultural critique of lawyerly unscrupulousness and greed or as an expression of Russian hostility toward Western legalism, seen as antithetical to traditional Russian values. The Letters and the Law is the first book to frame the conflict in terms of the two professions' competition for cultural authority. Anna Schur combines historical research and literary analysis to argue that the first generations of Russian trial lawyers shaped their professional identity with an eye to the celebrated figure of the writer and that they considered their own activities to be a form of verbal art. A fuller understanding of writers' antipathy to the law, Schur contends, must take into account this overlooked cultural backdrop. Laced with the better‑known critique of the lawyer's legalistic proclivities and lack of moral principle are the writer's reactions to a whole network of explicit and implicit claims of similarity between the two professions' goals, methods, and missions that were central to the lawyer's professional ideal. Viewed in this light, writers' critiques of the law and lawyers emerge as a concerted effort at protecting literature's exclusive cultural status in the context of modernization and the rapidly expanding public sphere. The study draws upon a mix of well-known and rarely studied nineteenth-century authors and texts—with particular attention paid to Fyodor Dostoevsky and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin—and on a wide range of nonliterary sources, including courtroom speeches, guides to forensic oratory, legal treatises, and specialized press. Anna Schur is a professor of English at Keene State College in New Hampshire. She is the author of Wages of Evil: Dostoevsky and Punishment (Northwestern University Press). Yelizaveta Raykhlina is a historian of Russia and Eurasia and holds a PhD from Georgetown University. She is a faculty member at New York University. To learn more, visit her website or follow her on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/russian-studies

The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia (Northwestern UP, 2022) explores the fraught relationship between writers and lawyers in the four decades following Alexander II's judicial reforms. Nineteenth-century Russian literature abounds in negative images of lawyers and the law. Literary scholars have typically interpreted these representations either as the common, cross‑cultural critique of lawyerly unscrupulousness and greed or as an expression of Russian hostility toward Western legalism, seen as antithetical to traditional Russian values. The Letters and the Law is the first book to frame the conflict in terms of the two professions' competition for cultural authority. Anna Schur combines historical research and literary analysis to argue that the first generations of Russian trial lawyers shaped their professional identity with an eye to the celebrated figure of the writer and that they considered their own activities to be a form of verbal art. A fuller understanding of writers' antipathy to the law, Schur contends, must take into account this overlooked cultural backdrop. Laced with the better‑known critique of the lawyer's legalistic proclivities and lack of moral principle are the writer's reactions to a whole network of explicit and implicit claims of similarity between the two professions' goals, methods, and missions that were central to the lawyer's professional ideal. Viewed in this light, writers' critiques of the law and lawyers emerge as a concerted effort at protecting literature's exclusive cultural status in the context of modernization and the rapidly expanding public sphere. The study draws upon a mix of well-known and rarely studied nineteenth-century authors and texts—with particular attention paid to Fyodor Dostoevsky and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin—and on a wide range of nonliterary sources, including courtroom speeches, guides to forensic oratory, legal treatises, and specialized press. Anna Schur is a professor of English at Keene State College in New Hampshire. She is the author of Wages of Evil: Dostoevsky and Punishment (Northwestern University Press). Yelizaveta Raykhlina is a historian of Russia and Eurasia and holds a PhD from Georgetown University. She is a faculty member at New York University. To learn more, visit her website or follow her on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia (Northwestern UP, 2022) explores the fraught relationship between writers and lawyers in the four decades following Alexander II's judicial reforms. Nineteenth-century Russian literature abounds in negative images of lawyers and the law. Literary scholars have typically interpreted these representations either as the common, cross‑cultural critique of lawyerly unscrupulousness and greed or as an expression of Russian hostility toward Western legalism, seen as antithetical to traditional Russian values. The Letters and the Law is the first book to frame the conflict in terms of the two professions' competition for cultural authority. Anna Schur combines historical research and literary analysis to argue that the first generations of Russian trial lawyers shaped their professional identity with an eye to the celebrated figure of the writer and that they considered their own activities to be a form of verbal art. A fuller understanding of writers' antipathy to the law, Schur contends, must take into account this overlooked cultural backdrop. Laced with the better‑known critique of the lawyer's legalistic proclivities and lack of moral principle are the writer's reactions to a whole network of explicit and implicit claims of similarity between the two professions' goals, methods, and missions that were central to the lawyer's professional ideal. Viewed in this light, writers' critiques of the law and lawyers emerge as a concerted effort at protecting literature's exclusive cultural status in the context of modernization and the rapidly expanding public sphere. The study draws upon a mix of well-known and rarely studied nineteenth-century authors and texts—with particular attention paid to Fyodor Dostoevsky and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin—and on a wide range of nonliterary sources, including courtroom speeches, guides to forensic oratory, legal treatises, and specialized press. Anna Schur is a professor of English at Keene State College in New Hampshire. She is the author of Wages of Evil: Dostoevsky and Punishment (Northwestern University Press). Yelizaveta Raykhlina is a historian of Russia and Eurasia and holds a PhD from Georgetown University. She is a faculty member at New York University. To learn more, visit her website or follow her on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies

The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia (Northwestern UP, 2022) explores the fraught relationship between writers and lawyers in the four decades following Alexander II's judicial reforms. Nineteenth-century Russian literature abounds in negative images of lawyers and the law. Literary scholars have typically interpreted these representations either as the common, cross‑cultural critique of lawyerly unscrupulousness and greed or as an expression of Russian hostility toward Western legalism, seen as antithetical to traditional Russian values. The Letters and the Law is the first book to frame the conflict in terms of the two professions' competition for cultural authority. Anna Schur combines historical research and literary analysis to argue that the first generations of Russian trial lawyers shaped their professional identity with an eye to the celebrated figure of the writer and that they considered their own activities to be a form of verbal art. A fuller understanding of writers' antipathy to the law, Schur contends, must take into account this overlooked cultural backdrop. Laced with the better‑known critique of the lawyer's legalistic proclivities and lack of moral principle are the writer's reactions to a whole network of explicit and implicit claims of similarity between the two professions' goals, methods, and missions that were central to the lawyer's professional ideal. Viewed in this light, writers' critiques of the law and lawyers emerge as a concerted effort at protecting literature's exclusive cultural status in the context of modernization and the rapidly expanding public sphere. The study draws upon a mix of well-known and rarely studied nineteenth-century authors and texts—with particular attention paid to Fyodor Dostoevsky and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin—and on a wide range of nonliterary sources, including courtroom speeches, guides to forensic oratory, legal treatises, and specialized press. Anna Schur is a professor of English at Keene State College in New Hampshire. She is the author of Wages of Evil: Dostoevsky and Punishment (Northwestern University Press). Yelizaveta Raykhlina is a historian of Russia and Eurasia and holds a PhD from Georgetown University. She is a faculty member at New York University. To learn more, visit her website or follow her on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law

Na de Koude Oorlog en daarna de unipolaire wereld zien we nu een ruwe, multipolaire wereld van grootmachten en allianties ontstaan. De geopolitiek van de negentiende eeuw is terug.Reden te meer om eens goed te kijken hoe machtspolitiek in die tijd werd toegepast door de grootmachten. Jaap Jansen en PG Kroeger kijken naar de meest succesvolle bedrijver daarvan: Otto von Bismarck, die al tijdens zijn leven een legende werd.***Op sommige podcast-apps kun je niet alles lezen. De complete tekst vind je altijd hier***Hij werd geboren in 1815, juist toen Napoleon en zijn revolutionaire keizerrijk sneefden. En hij leefde hij tot 1898, het fin de siècle. Al jong greep hij de kansen die de turbulentie van de verwarrende jaren rond 1848 hem bood. Een staatsman met waaghalzerige lef, politiek vernuft en connecties in de top van Europa en de Duitse vorstendommen daarbinnen.Een diepe politieke crisis in Pruisen greep hij aan om die staat tot de dominante macht op het Europese continent te maken. In minder dan tien jaar speelde hij met politieke, diplomatieke en militaire avonturen de andere machten tegen elkaar uit. Geen wonder dat Johan Rudolf Thorbecke hem verafschuwde en Benjamin Disraeli zijn politiek als ‘nog ontregelender' beschouwde dan de Franse Revolutie.Zo smeedde hij in 1870-1871 een nieuw Duits keizerrijk onder Pruisische leiding, “Durch Blut und Eisen”. Zelf werd hij er de rijkskanselier van en daarmee begon een tweede, verrassende fase van zijn kiene machtspolitiek. Bismarck werd ‘de eerlijke makelaar' van Europa.Of het nu tsaar Alexander II, Benjamin Disraeli of Habsburg in Wenen was, allen keken naar Bismarck om het evenwicht te bewaren en daarbinnen hun expansieplannen te realiseren. Ook bij de koloniale globalisering die deze tijd kenmerkte. Dit maakte het nieuwe keizerrijk nóg dominanter in 'het concert der Europese machten', terwijl de nieuwe Duitse eenheid met haar 'interne markt' aan economie, technologie en wetenschappen enorme impulsen gaf.Door de eigen Duitse ambities beperkt te houden, kon Bismarck stevige allianties smeden en een succesvolle evenwichtspolitiek voeren, terwijl hij binnenslands verrassend moderne politiek aandurfde, ook op sociaal vlak. Naast autoritaire repressie. Een nieuwe, jonge keizer kreeg het na 1888 direct met de knorrige oude kanselier aan de stok. Wilhelm II wilde populair zijn, stoere taal en militair machtsvertoon laten klinken. Bismarck weigerde mee te gaan in zulke onberadenheid en stapte op, dezer weken in 1890.Een serene oude dag gunde hij zichzelf en vooral ook de nieuwe keizer en diens opvolgers niet. Daarvoor zag hij te scherp dat hun onevenwichtige koers moest leiden tot een geopolitiek isolement of nog erger. Met zijn fascinerende memoires nam Bismarck postuum nog een keer extra wraak. Het derde deel daarvan werd daarom decennialang ongepubliceerd gelaten.Bismarck is voor onze tijd verrassend leerzaam en actueel. Zijn neiging tot scherp politiek en intellectueel debat is sowieso genieten. Maar ook zijn finesse bij zowel de waagstukken in zijn geopolitieke strategie als het opvallende bouwen en bewaren van evenwicht. De bloei van Duitsland als een nieuwe en leidende wereldmacht door de nadruk op technologie, innovatie en wetenschap en zijn bewust afzien van Poetinachtige militaire avonturen als nalatenschap vallen nu misschien zelfs meer op dan voorheen. Deze oerconservatieve, autoritaire vernieuwer blijkt ineens óók een man voor deze tijd.***Deze aflevering is mede mogelijk gemaakt met donaties van luisteraars die we hiervoor hartelijk danken. Word ook vriend van de show!Heeft u belangstelling om in onze podcast te adverteren of ons te sponsoren? Dat zou helemaal mooi zijn! 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That moment that Russia didn't quite have.  

Varför har Ryssland ett kluvet förhållande till väst? Vilken betydelse har Peter den store haft för den ryska självbilden? Och behöver landet vara en autokrati för att kunna styras? Det är frågor som vi samtalar om i veckans Hotspot, som bland annat handlar om ortodoxa kyrkan, tsarer och slavofiler. Gäst i programmet är Bengt Jangfeldt som är Rysslandskännare, docent i slaviska språk och Augustpris-vinnande författare. Boktips: ”Vi och dom – Bengt Jangfeldt om Ryssland som idé”, Bengt Jangfeldt (Wahlström & Widstrand), ”Ryssland och Europa – En kulturhistorisk studie", Per-Arne Bodin (Natur & Kultur), ”Rysslands historia – Från Alexander II till Vladimir Putin”, Martin Kragh (Dialogos Förlag), ”Russian thinkers”, Isaiah Berlin (Penguin Classics) och ”The Flow of Ideas”, Andrzej Walicki (Peter Lang AG) Vill du hjälpa oss att göra fler program? Stöd gärna vårt arbete genom att swisha en gåva till: 123 396 94 17

In this episode we look at how conservative monarchs in the middle of the 19th century will begin to adopt liberal and nationalistic measures in order to strengthen their power. Specifically, we look at Napoleon III in France, Alexander II in Russia, and Franz Joseph I in Austria-Hungary. Lyndeurozone.com  Patreon If you use this podcast regularly would you please consider supporting us on Patreon for as little as a dollar a month?  The Euro Simplified Podcast has no advertising revenue and is produced by a public school teacher.  We love and appreciate our supporters on Patreon as our supporters help us meet the costs associated with the production of this free resource for students. Episodes will be released on the following schedule: Unit 1 and Unit 2 - August/September Unit 3: October Unit 4: November Unit 5: November and December Unit 6: January Unit 7: Late January & February Unit 8 : March Unit 9: April If you have any questions you can contact Robert Lynde at Lyndeurozone.com.  

On another explosive installment of Disinformed, a man between Michaels melts down, we border on remembering the water, and a Russian Tsar meets an ignominious end.https://linktr.ee/disinformedpodcastSources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Alexander_II_of_Russia https://www.rbth.com/history/333524-5-attempts-alexander-of-russia-murderhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervomartovtsy https://www.prisonersofeternity.com/blog/assassination-of-tsar-alexander-ii/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_II_of_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_I_of_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Konstantin_Pavlovich_of_Russiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrist_revolthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_reform_of_1861 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%27s_law_(Arizona) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_Uprising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narodnaya_Volya_(organization) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_to_the_People https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov's_gun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronstadt#Russian_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Manege https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesya_Helfman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia#CollapseOutro:Semi-Funk by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4333-semi-funkLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On a volatile and incendiary edition of Disinformed, the crew add a new liar to the roster, then duck, weave and serpentine our way through the myriad assassination attempts at Alexander II. Who will live? Who will die??? Only time will decide...https://linktr.ee/disinformedpodcastSources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Alexander_II_of_Russia https://www.rbth.com/history/333524-5-attempts-alexander-of-russia-murderhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervomartovtsy https://www.prisonersofeternity.com/blog/assassination-of-tsar-alexander-ii/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_II_of_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_I_of_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Konstantin_Pavlovich_of_Russiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_reform_of_1861 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%27s_law_(Arizona) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_Uprising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narodnaya_Volya_(organization) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_to_the_People https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov's_gun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronstadt#Russian_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Manege https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesya_Helfman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia#CollapseOutro:Semi-Funk by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4333-semi-funkLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's episode, Mike and Courtney discuss the many assassination attempts of Czar Alexander II. What whacky hijinx will Alexander II get into? Sources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Alexander_II_of_Russia https://www.rbth.com/history/333524-5-attempts-alexander-of-russia-murderhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervomartovtsy https://www.prisonersofeternity.com/blog/assassination-of-tsar-alexander-ii/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_II_of_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_I_of_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Konstantin_Pavlovich_of_Russiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrist_revolthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_reform_of_1861 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%27s_law_(Arizona) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_Uprising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narodnaya_Volya_(organization)Outro:Semi-Funk by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4333-semi-funkLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We look at the life and death of another Alexander — this time it's Tsar Alexander II of Russia. A reformer who granted freedom to some 23 million serfs, he was on the brink of signing into law a program of changes to the Russian system of government that could have set the empire on a democratic and constitutional route. But a team of assassins from a shadowy political group killed the tsar before he could sign the reforms into law, thus ushering in a period of political reaction that ultimately led to revolution. To find out more about the people and music featured in today's episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website, www.AssassinationsPodcast.com. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag. The sponsor of today's show is Athletic Greens. Head on over to athleticgreens.com/EMERGINGIf you'd like to support the show, we have a Patreon page. We offer a variety of different support levels with lots of fun perks, including bonus episodes, stickers, merch store credit, and more! Find us at patreon.com/AssassinationsPodcast Assassinations Podcast was created by Niall Cooper, who also researches and writes the show. Lindsey Morse is our editor and producer. Our theme music was created by Graeme Ronald. If you'd like to hear more from Graeme, check out his band, Remember Remember. You'll find them on iTunes.

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Russia blows its last chance, literally.

Árið 1878 höfðu Rússar nýlega sigrað Tyrki í stríði og voru með pálmann í höndunum á Balkansaga og í Kákasus. Alexander II keisari hafði aflétt bændaánauðinni 1861 og það stefndi allt til betri vegar í Rússlandi. Eða hvað? Byltingarmenn eins og Sergei Netsjaév og Vera Sasúlitsj voru ekki sátt og gripu til vopna. Og í Kaupmannahöfn sat Eiríkur Jónsson og skrifaði fréttir og fréttaskýringar um rússnesk málefni fyrir íslenskt bændafólk og birti í Skírni. Og sá var ekki að skafa utan af því! Úr þeim fréttum Eiríks les Illugi Jökulsson. Sumt af þessum 144 ára gömlu fréttum hljóma óþægilega kunnuglega einmitt núna.

Árið 1878 höfðu Rússar nýlega sigrað Tyrki í stríði og voru með pálmann í höndunum á Balkansaga og í Kákasus. Alexander II keisari hafði aflétt bændaánauðinni 1861 og það stefndi allt til betri vegar í Rússlandi. Eða hvað? Byltingarmenn eins og Sergei Netsjaév og Vera Sasúlitsj voru ekki sátt og gripu til vopna. Og í Kaupmannahöfn sat Eiríkur Jónsson og skrifaði fréttir og fréttaskýringar um rússnesk málefni fyrir íslenskt bændafólk og birti í Skírni. Og sá var ekki að skafa utan af því! Úr þeim fréttum Eiríks les Illugi Jökulsson. Sumt af þessum 144 ára gömlu fréttum hljóma óþægilega kunnuglega einmitt núna.

Árið 1878 höfðu Rússar nýlega sigrað Tyrki í stríði og voru með pálmann í höndunum á Balkansaga og í Kákasus. Alexander II keisari hafði aflétt bændaánauðinni 1861 og það stefndi allt til betri vegar í Rússlandi. Eða hvað? Byltingarmenn eins og Sergei Netsjaév og Vera Sasúlitsj voru ekki sátt og gripu til vopna. Og í Kaupmannahöfn sat Eiríkur Jónsson og skrifaði fréttir og fréttaskýringar um rússnesk málefni fyrir íslenskt bændafólk og birti í Skírni. Og sá var ekki að skafa utan af því! Úr þeim fréttum Eiríks les Illugi Jökulsson. Sumt af þessum 144 ára gömlu fréttum hljóma óþægilega kunnuglega einmitt núna.

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of 20 tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Simon Sebag Montefiore's gripping chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire building, overshadowed by palace conspiracy, family rivalries, sexual decadence, and wild extravagance, with a global cast of adventurers, courtesans, revolutionaries, and poets, from Ivan the Terrible to Tolstoy and Pushkin to Bismarck, Lincoln, Queen Victoria, and Lenin. To rule Russia was both imperial-sacred mission and poisoned chalice: Six of the last 12 tsars were murdered. Peter the Great tortured his own son to death while making Russia an empire and dominated his court with a dining club notable for compulsory drunkenness, naked dwarfs, and fancy dress. Catherine the Great overthrew her own husband (who was murdered soon afterward), enjoyed affairs with a series of young male favorites, conquered Ukraine, and fascinated Europe. Paul I was strangled by courtiers backed by his own son, Alexander I, who in turn faced Napoleon's invasion and the burning of Moscow, then went on to take Paris. Alexander II liberated the serfs, survived five assassination attempts, and wrote perhaps the most explicit love letters ever composed by a ruler. The Romanovs climaxes with a fresh, unforgettable portrayal of Nicholas II and Alexandra, the rise and murder of Rasputin, war, and revolution - and the harrowing massacre of the entire family. Dazzlingly entertaining and beautifully written from start to finish, The Romanovs brings these monarchs - male and female, great and flawed, their families and courts - blazingly to life. Drawing on new archival research, Montefiore delivers an enthralling epic of triumph and tragedy, love and murder, encompassing the seminal years 1812, 1914, and 1917, that is both a universal study of power and a portrait of an empire that helps define Russia today.

In order to smooth over the transition from Antiochus I to Antiochus II, I'm going to take a moment to discuss a reference in Ashoka's edicts glorifying the emperor's spread of Buddhism, which may refer to either of the Seleucid kings given that only a name is present. However, this discussion will also allow us to return to the Indian subcontinent and pick up its history where we left off... Sources for this episode: 1) Chisholm, H., Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911, Vol. I), Alexander II (king of Epirus). 2) The Editors, Encyclopaedia Britannica (2014), Bindusara (online) [Accessed 20/05/2021]. 3) The Editors, Encyclopaedia Britannica (2014), Deccan (online) [Accessed 20/05/2021]. 4) The Editors, Encyclopaedia Britannica (2015), Kalinga (online) [Accessed 20/05/2021]. 5) Smith, V. (1920), Asoka, the Buddhist emperor of India (3rd edition), Oxford: The Clarendon Press. Available at: Internet Archive [Accessed 20/05/2021]. 6) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Antiochus II Theos (online) [Accessed 20/05/2021]. 7) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Ashoka (online) [Accessed 20/05/2021]. 8) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Bindusara (online) [Accessed 20/05/2021]. 9) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Chandragupta Maurya (online) [Accessed 20/05/2021]. 10) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Devata (online) [Accessed 20/05/2021]. 11) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Sushima (online) [Accessed 20/05/2021].

Another contested election that results in another great reformer.

We are joined by Dr. Peter Holquist, the Ronald S. Lauder Endowed Term Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Imperial and Soviet Russian history. Dr. Holquist provides us with an insightful outlook on the era of Tsar Alexander II's reign (1855-1881), as we engage in a discussion on his domestic progressive reforms contrasted with his orders for the final conquest of the Caucasus.

This week we continue on from episode 31!!!I lost my reference book and recently found it again so we can finally continue on from where we left off. We cover from Kenneth Mac Alpin to Alexander II in this episode.http://scothistorypod.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alexander I saved his nation through an alliance with Napoleon Bonaparte, only to later become the man who ensured the military leader's grisly demise. Alexander II was a well-educated statesman desperate to prove himself to his country, but this desperation to please would eventually cost him his life. Alexander III ruled for only a short period of time, but watched as Russia underwent its most dramatic changes yet. These three men, connected only by their names and their bloodline, would all help shape Russia into the nation it is today. Their decisions would bring wealth and prosperity to their people . . . but would also cost them their lives, and the lives of royal descendants to come.