And the The Welcome to Russian History Retold, episode 140. How's he do it?

Last time, we covered a brief history of the Crimea from its early days in Greek history all the way up to present day where we see a battle going on between Russia and Ukraine in 2014.

What I want to do this episode though is tell you how I put on a Russian rulers or a Russian

history re-told podcast.

I've been doing this for almost four years now on April 30th will mark the fourth anniversary of the first episode.

Can't believe it's gone this long. When I originally started this, I had about 52 episodes in mind, I was going to do it for just a year.

I had it all mapped out and knew exactly what was going to happen.

And of course, here we are at episode 140, way far away from completing

the history of Russia. It's just the beauty that it's over a thousand years old

and it's just got so many more tales to tell and I'm excited to be able to continue to do this.

But people have wondered, there was a question on Facebook, how do you do it Mark?

How do you put together a podcast? Well, the first thing I do,

since I'm no longer doing the rulers, which made it very easy because I just follow one ruler after

another. Now I'm starting to pick and choose those topics that

interests me and hopefully interest you, the listener. I look at different types of topics things that are important in the social fabric of Russia and how it came about and how the people were like the

the surfment of the Russian peasant.

Also want to look at those monumental events like the Crimean War that were so

important to what Russia is today and I have to say the Crimean War and you'll see this as

we go on. Why this war in 1854 to 1856 is driving the events of today in Crimea and why there was such an outpouring of people

wanting to become part of Russia again and why Russia so desperately wanted the Crimea. We're going to be going over the battle at

Sevastopol and why here's Russia with the greatest defeat but the

greatest heroism in their history at the siege of Sevastopol and it was no longer Russian.

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