History of Everything: Russia's Terrible Time of Troubles

History of Everything

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🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The Time of Troubles, or Smuta, was a period of political crisis in the Tsardom of Russia which began in 1598 with the death of Feodor I, the last of the Rurik dynasty, and ended in 1613 with the accession of Michael I of the House of Romanov. Millions would die and the entire thing makes game of thrones look tame. Travel to Italy With Me here Travel to Japan With Me here Bonus episodes as well as ad-free episodes on Patreon. Find us on Instagram. Join us on Discord. Submit your relatives on our website Join the Book Club on http://chirpbooks.com/history Get some delicious COFFEE Podcast Youtube Channel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:06.4	Hello, this is Matt and McKinley from History Dispatches.
0:12.3	We are the father-son duo bringing you the weird, the wild, the wacky, and the craziest tales from across time.
0:17.8	From the ice bowl to the great heathen army.
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0:22.1	The same head they kept on a pike for three years?
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0:28.7	Find out more at History Dispatches.com or wherever you get your podcast app. Hello, everyone's Stakuya here.
0:58.1	And I'm Gabi.
0:59.0	And welcome back to the podcast, my host.
1:01.0	Welcome back, everyone, to an episode here that is particularly special because it is
1:05.1	at least 50% written by my wife.
1:08.5	This was a collaborative effort in here, and she did some amazing research and stuff, and I'm really proud of her going into this. It was 90% research. No, it was 90% complaining, 10% research. Yeah, but considering that we're talking about stuff with Russian history, a lot of people complained and a lot of awful things happen. So you know what? Gabby, yours is just one voice among many that pretty much ended in tragedy.
1:28.8	Wow.
1:29.2	Wait.
1:30.7	The tragedy was in this case you having to work on developing this in the first place.
1:34.1	Okay, good.
1:34.9	But it's not nearly as tragic as what happened to a number of the people that we're going to be talking about here in the first place.
1:39.7	Some part's funny, though.
1:40.9	But then, of course, that's just tragically funny. Well, you want to hear what's tragically funny.
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