In tonight's story, I take you on another train journey and we explore the history of the Trans-Siberian. I also tell you about the history of Russia the Slavs, from the Late Antiquity to the Russian Revolution (I keep the 20th Century for another story about the USSR).

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Credits: script and narration by the French Whisperer, visuals by the French Whisperer, under Wikipedia Commons, or under web licence from Panthermedia.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Night Train
3:33 The Russians in Siberia
8:10 Russian Railroads, the Crimean War
10:12 The Trans-Siberian Project
11:42 The Slavs
15:02 Kievan Rus'
18:19 The Construction
21:52 Perm and Yekaterinburg
26:06 Irkoutsk and Vladivostok
30:21 The Novgorod Republic
33:24 The Third Rome
35:59 Ivan The Terrible
40:01 Livonian War and Time of Troubles
43:42 The Cossacks
50:43 Peter The Great
57:09 Empresses of the 18th Century
1:00:26 Napoleonic Wars
1:04:30 1812 and the Congress of Vienna
1:07:41 19th Century Struggles to the Revolution
1:11:35 Conclusion (+Train Sounds to the End)

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