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Phe you huenelle, Welcome to the Russian rulers history podcast

episode 111. Boris Yeltsin. The early years. Well, I'm back for my adventure to Australia, ready to continue

on with the next to last Russian ruler Boris Yeltsin.

For the first time in 40 podcasts though, I'll be covering a true Russian ruler once again.

Now if you remember way back when in episode 110 we covered the

end of the Soviet Union and the fall of its leader Mikhail Mikhail Savagievich Gorbachev.

Lasting just over 74 years, the USSR tried a bold experiment to run a country using a Marxist-Leninist system.

But, due to numerous reasons, it failed,

closing up shop on December 31st, 1991.

The man who would take the reign of power in Russia was a truly paradoxical and highly

controversial figure on Boris Yeltsin.

A man who was a card-carrying communist and Aparachik became the first democratically elected

head of the Russian state. It is one of the many

contradictions that define Ilson's life. Born on February 1st 1931, just 29 days before Mikhail Gorbachev, to poor peasant parents in the Urals on the edge of Siberia, Boris was one of three children of Nikolai and Clavdia Yelson.

Now the name Yelson comes from the word Yel, or fir tree. The main work I will be drawing much of my

information about Boris will be Timothy Colton's epic work, Yeltsin, A Life. If you're truly interested in this man and have the

time to read over 400 pages of an incredible biography, this is a must read. Now Yelson's ancestors were likely old believers, a

schismatic breakaway group that seceded from the main Russian Orthodox church in the 1650s in response to Patriarch Mekon's reforms.

His family was believed to have come from Novgorod and migrated and settled in and around the town of Basmanova, also known as Basmunovskoya.

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