Lenin Part 1: The Revolution is Born

Real Dictators

NOISER

History, Fiction, Drama

4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Vladimir Lenin changed the course of history like very few ever have. He turned Russia upside down and created the first communist state. As the founder of the Soviet Union, he ensured the world would never be the same again. But long before his time in power, his life is something straight out of a spy thriller. Young Vladimir enjoys a happy, comfortable childhood. That is, until a double tragedy puts him on a very different path... A Noiser production, written by Dan Smith. This is Part 1 of 4. For ad-free listening, exclusive content and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Now available for Apple and Android users. Click the Noiser+ banner on Apple or go to noiser.com/subscriptions to get started with a 7-day free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	July 17th, 1918.
0:04.9	We're in the Russian city of the Catarineberg, not far from the Ural Mountains.
0:11.3	It's 1.30am.
0:15.0	In an old mercantile house, a man called Evgeny Bokkin is shaken away.
0:22.4	Before him dressed in military fatigues, Stan's commander Yurovsky and his tone is of the
0:28.9	utmost urgency.
0:31.2	There are enemy soldiers nearby, he says.
0:34.0	Bokkin does not doubt him.
0:36.0	He'd heard Gonfi himself earlier this very evening.
0:40.6	Gather the family, Yurovsky instructs him.
0:43.6	Gather the family and take them down to the basement.
0:48.0	Bokkin scrambles out of bed to do as he's told.
0:52.9	The family in question is not his own, far from it.
0:58.1	They are the Romanov's and Bokkin is their physician.
1:03.3	They had been Russia's ruling dynasty until they overthrew the previous year.
1:09.7	These days the country is under the rule of Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik revolutionaries.
1:16.5	Lenin knows that the Romanov's represent a threat to his new regime.
1:22.0	They will always be a rallying point for his enemies.
1:25.5	These had the family moved around the country at regular intervals to wherever they posed
1:30.0	the least danger.
1:32.2	The Romanov's have been living quietly at this property, the Patya House for the past
1:36.8	few weeks.
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