The Kremlin

Short History Of...

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🗓️ 15 September 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Over roughly a thousand years, the Kremlin has come to symbolise Russia itself, with all its varying fortunes, allegiances, and leaders. It’s a physical location that has become synonymous with government and nationhood. Through war and peace, Russia’s leaders have always striven to forge their own identities alongside that of this famous old complex. But what were the origins of this forbidding citadel? How did it become intrinsically linked to the rise of Moscow? And what of its enemies - from the Mongols, to Napoleon, to Hitler, who have attempted to strike against it? This is a Short History Of….The Kremlin. A Noiser Production, written by Dan Smith. With thanks to Professor Catherine Merridale, author of Red Fortress: History and Illusion in the Kremlin. And John Sweeney, author of Killer in the Kremlin. Get every episode of Short History Of a week early with Noiser+. You’ll also get ad-free listening, bonus material, and early access to shows across the Noiser network. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A Family Day Out with a Difference
0:02.0	Join the race to help build the new Children's Cancer Center at Great Orman Street Hospital.
0:07.0	RBC Race for the Kids, a family festival and fun run, is coming back to London Hyde Park on Saturday 12th of October.
0:14.0	Bring the whole family to walk jog or scoot 2K or 5K
0:18.0	and enjoy a day full of music, games and entertainment.
0:21.0	All while supporting Great Orman Street Hospital Children's Charity.
0:25.0	Kids Go Free. Sign up to date at gosh.org slash race.
0:30.0	It's the 1st of May, 1918, and the sun is rising over Moscow.
0:38.0	In a small basement workshop beneath the mighty red walls of the Kremlin,
0:43.0	Russia's historic center of power,
0:45.0	a young woman sits at a sewing machine.
0:48.0	Its needle clatters through yet another row of stitching.
0:52.0	She is one of a platoon of female workers who have
0:55.6	been toiling day in, day out for weeks, creating vast seas of red fabric for a very special project.
1:05.0	Finally, she has finished.
1:07.0	She scrapes back her stool and joins several other women
1:11.0	who have their own roles of material ready to go.
1:15.0	Carrying the bolts as best they can, they stumble through the basement door and climb to ground
1:20.1	level.
1:21.1	Then, once outside, they rush across the cobbles towards one of the Kremlin's famous
1:27.0	towers.
1:30.0	It may be early that nearby Red Square is alive with activity.
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