74. Peter the Great: The First Emperor

Empire: World History

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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A giant of Russian history, and a giant of a man. Peter the Great, standing at 6'8, established Russia as the world power that it is today and is famously one of Vladimir Putin's inspirations. He expanded Russia's borders, modernised the state, and built St Petersburg from a swamp. Yet with all this, he still found time for drunken debauchery of the most absurd level; he enjoyed dwarf-throwing, wheelbarrow racing, and creating the position of Archdeacon Fuck-Off for his ministers. Listen as William and Anita are once again joined by Simon Sebag Montefiore to discuss the quite unbelievable life of Peter the Great, the first emperor of Russia. Twitter: @Empirepoduk Email: empirepoduk@gmail.com Goalhangerpodcasts.com Producer: Callum Hill Exec Producer: Jack Davenport + Neil Fearn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:15.1	W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and me William
0:34.8	William Trimple.
0:35.8	I'm so glad you're all still there you know we had just such a hefty dose of
0:39.4	gouging and a burning and it's best skins was a new one.
0:43.0	And rib action.
0:46.0	Rib action was a new one or me.
0:48.0	I mean we are with a kindred spirit here it seems.
0:52.0	Our moogles are looking very, very underwhelming compared to Seabags' turtles.
0:56.6	Well, we should not just say Seabag because for those of you who don't know,
1:00.8	our very special guests has joined us again for this podcast.
1:04.7	Simon Seabag, Montefiore, author of the world, a family history of humanity,
1:08.3	along with other fabulous books on Russia, which we have used... Ramanovs the Ramanovs yeah
1:14.6	absolutely so look we had just left you at the last episode with Michael the
1:21.2	reluctance are and his mother sort of being jostled to take over.
1:27.0	We are now going to leap forward to the grandson of Michael, Peter the Great. So when we left Michael, Michael's mother, I mean we may
1:36.2	have to mention this was winching at the time saying why am I taking over this there's not even
1:39.8	any silver in this place. There's nothing left. The cupboard is bare like a grumpy mother
1:45.6	hubbed, you know. Yeah well there was no bedding. There were no roofs on the palaces so anyway so they took over.
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