Podcasts about former people the final days

Today I speak with Douglas Smith, An award-winning historian and translator. He is the author of six books on Russia which include "Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy", a bestseller in the UK, and winner of the inaugural Pushkin House Russian Book Prize in 2013, "Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs", a finalist for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and his new book, "The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin", which uncovers long-forgotten facts of how the American Relief Administration ran a major famine relief operation in the Soviet Union in the early 1920s. For more information on Douglas Smith's work, and how to purchase his works, please see his site here: https://douglassmith.info/ Please check us out at https://culturecaffe.com/podcast

Coming up this week, a double episode looking at the eccentric, charismatic and opportunistic figure that was…. Grigori Rasputin. Born a peasant in the Siberian wilderness, Rasputin expertly grasped opportunity to become one of, if not the, most powerful man in Russia. In this double episode, I’ll explore Rasputin’s life, how he rose to power and prominence by being in the right place at the right time, and how his life was cut short by those who feared that the master opportunist had gone one step too far and burned one bridge too many.Part 1 will be released on Monday September 9. Part 2 will be released on Thursday September 12.The Risktory Podcast is created, written and produced by Jacinthe A Galpin.Soundtrack (sourced from www.freemusicarchive.org)Podington Bear - Elephants on ParadeAlan Spiljak – CloudsAlan Spiljak – ForgottenAlan Spiljak – Light BlueAlan Spiljak – Empty DaysAlan Spiljak – Stars AboveAlan Spiljak – Not the EndAlan Spiljak - SunBibliographyhttps://www.biography.com/political-figure/rasputinhttps://historycooperative.org/mad-monk-grigori-rasputin-story/https://time.com/4606775/5-myths-rasputin/https://www.totallytimelines.com/grigory-rasputin-1869-1916/https://culturacolectiva.com/history/rasputin-khlysty-unorthodox-russian-religious-secthttps://allthatsinteresting.com/rasputin-historyhttps://ersjdamoo.wordpress.com/2014/09/13/iliodor-rasputin-and-world-war-i/Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy – Douglas Smith

Coming up this week, a double episode looking at the eccentric, charismatic and opportunistic figure that was…. Grigori Rasputin. Born a peasant in the Siberian wilderness, Rasputin expertly grasped opportunity to become one of, if not the, most powerful man in Russia. In this double episode, I’ll explore Rasputin’s life, how he rose to power and prominence by being in the right place at the right time, and how his life was cut short by those who feared that the master opportunist had gone one step too far and burned one bridge too many.Part 1 will be released on Monday September 9. Part 2 will be released on Thursday September 12.The Risktory Podcast is created, written and produced by Jacinthe A Galpin.Soundtrack (sourced from www.freemusicarchive.org)Podington Bear - Elephants on ParadeAlan Spiljak – CloudsAlan Spiljak – ForgottenAlan Spiljak – Light BlueAlan Spiljak – Empty DaysAlan Spiljak – Stars AboveAlan Spiljak – Not the EndAlan Spiljak - SunBibliographyhttps://www.biography.com/political-figure/rasputinhttps://historycooperative.org/mad-monk-grigori-rasputin-story/https://time.com/4606775/5-myths-rasputin/https://www.totallytimelines.com/grigory-rasputin-1869-1916/https://culturacolectiva.com/history/rasputin-khlysty-unorthodox-russian-religious-secthttps://allthatsinteresting.com/rasputin-historyhttps://ersjdamoo.wordpress.com/2014/09/13/iliodor-rasputin-and-world-war-i/Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy – Douglas Smith

Coming up this week, a double episode looking at the eccentric, charismatic and opportunistic figure that was…. Grigori Rasputin. Born a peasant in the Siberian wilderness, Rasputin expertly grasped opportunity to become one of, if not the, most powerful man in Russia. In this double episode, I’ll explore Rasputin’s life, how he rose to power and prominence by being in the right place at the right time, and how his life was cut short by those who feared that the master opportunist had gone one step too far and burned one bridge too many.Part 1 will be released on Monday September 9. Part 2 will be released on Thursday September 12.The Risktory Podcast is created, written and produced by Jacinthe A Galpin.Soundtrack (sourced from www.freemusicarchive.org)Podington Bear - Elephants on ParadeAlan Spiljak – CloudsAlan Spiljak – ForgottenAlan Spiljak – Light BlueAlan Spiljak – Empty DaysAlan Spiljak – Stars AboveAlan Spiljak – Not the EndAlan Spiljak - SunBibliographyhttps://www.biography.com/political-figure/rasputinhttps://historycooperative.org/mad-monk-grigori-rasputin-story/https://time.com/4606775/5-myths-rasputin/https://www.totallytimelines.com/grigory-rasputin-1869-1916/https://culturacolectiva.com/history/rasputin-khlysty-unorthodox-russian-religious-secthttps://allthatsinteresting.com/rasputin-historyhttps://ersjdamoo.wordpress.com/2014/09/13/iliodor-rasputin-and-world-war-i/Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy – Douglas Smith

Coming up this week, a double episode looking at the eccentric, charismatic and opportunistic figure that was…. Grigori Rasputin. Born a peasant in the Siberian wilderness, Rasputin expertly grasped opportunity to become one of, if not the, most powerful man in Russia. In this double episode, I’ll explore Rasputin’s life, how he rose to power and prominence by being in the right place at the right time, and how his life was cut short by those who feared that the master opportunist had gone one step too far and burned one bridge too many.Part 1 will be released on Monday September 9. Part 2 will be released on Thursday September 12.The Risktory Podcast is created, written and produced by Jacinthe A Galpin.Soundtrack (sourced from www.freemusicarchive.org)Podington Bear - Elephants on ParadeAlan Spiljak – CloudsAlan Spiljak – ForgottenAlan Spiljak – Light BlueAlan Spiljak – Empty DaysAlan Spiljak – Stars AboveAlan Spiljak – Not the EndAlan Spiljak - SunBibliographyhttps://www.biography.com/political-figure/rasputinhttps://historycooperative.org/mad-monk-grigori-rasputin-story/https://time.com/4606775/5-myths-rasputin/https://www.totallytimelines.com/grigory-rasputin-1869-1916/https://culturacolectiva.com/history/rasputin-khlysty-unorthodox-russian-religious-secthttps://allthatsinteresting.com/rasputin-historyhttps://ersjdamoo.wordpress.com/2014/09/13/iliodor-rasputin-and-world-war-i/Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy – Douglas Smith

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Russian nobility numbered about 1.9 million people, or 1.5 percent of the population. The 1917 Revolution and the Russian Civil War would all but obliterate this class, as many nobles were dispossessed, killed or driven into exile. By 1921, Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of the Cheka, could rightly boast, “The landowners as a class have disappeared, the bourgeoisie has been declassed, the political masters are now non-entities.” Indeed, as the Civil War ebbed, no more than 50,000 former nobles, or twelve percent of its prerevolutionary population, remained in Russia. It is the story of those former nobles that stayed in Soviet Russia that Douglas Smith‘s Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) seeks to tell. Through the trials and tribulations of two prominent noble families, the Sheremetevs and Golitsyns, Smith paints a general picture of how the former nobility experienced life and death under the Soviets. But that is not all. Former People is ultimately an incredibly readable, vivid, emotional human story of survival, accommodation, and reconciliation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Russian nobility numbered about 1.9 million people, or 1.5 percent of the population. The 1917 Revolution and the Russian Civil War would all but obliterate this class, as many nobles were dispossessed, killed or driven into exile. By 1921, Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of the Cheka, could rightly boast, “The landowners as a class have disappeared, the bourgeoisie has been declassed, the political masters are now non-entities.” Indeed, as the Civil War ebbed, no more than 50,000 former nobles, or twelve percent of its prerevolutionary population, remained in Russia. It is the story of those former nobles that stayed in Soviet Russia that Douglas Smith‘s Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) seeks to tell. Through the trials and tribulations of two prominent noble families, the Sheremetevs and Golitsyns, Smith paints a general picture of how the former nobility experienced life and death under the Soviets. But that is not all. Former People is ultimately an incredibly readable, vivid, emotional human story of survival, accommodation, and reconciliation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices