Part Three: Peter the Painter and the Latvian Revolution of 1905

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Margaret continues telling you about one of histories most notorious fugitives and his days fighting against the Tsar.

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https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/police-forces/city-of-london-police/areas/city-of-london/about-us/about-us/houndsditch-murders/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/gyl24y/were_the_policies_of_the_british_government_under/
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The-Siege-of-Sidney-Street/
https://web.archive.org/web/20070514215717/http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/O/origination/immigration.html
https://www.onlatvia.com/tag/christianization
https://web.archive.org/web/20250125015207/https://www.onlatvia.com/dievturiba-latvian-neo-paganism-187
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%81rlis_Ulmanis
https://kulturaskanons.lv/en/archive/jani/
A Towering Flame, by Phillip Ruff

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0:56.7	I am your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and this is part three of a four-part episode about Peter the Painter and the Lopian Revolution.
1:01.2	The thing you didn't even know happened, probably.
1:05.3	I love when I'm like, there's this famous guy called Peter the Painter,
1:09.5	and you're like, I've never heard of that man, including a lot of my friends who are anarchist history nerds.
1:11.7	Other people had heard of him, but yeah, he was called the osama bin laden of the time because he was very famous for not being in
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