The Romanovs

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 9 October 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Romanov family were the first imperial dynasty to rule Russia, reigning from the early seventeenth century until the Russian Revolution of 1917. Including such illustrious names as Peter the Great, Catherine the Great and Alexander I, they oversaw and often instigated, dramatic changes to the fabric of Russian society and culture as a whole. Through conquest and expansion, they carved out a Russian Empire and propelled their nation into great power status. The myth and memory of the Romanovs still permeate Russian identity and history today.

Dan catches up with Orlando Figes, a distinguished historian and an expert on Romanov Russia whose acclaimed books, including A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924, help to shed light on this crucial portion of Russian history.

This episode was produced by Mariana Des Forges and edited by Dougal Patmore.

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0:34.2	Hey everyone, welcome down to those history hit.
0:36.1	Russia.
0:37.1	People are talking about Russia.
0:38.6	You can see why.
0:39.8	Russia is something we feel we need to get handled on these days.
0:43.6	We forgot that we need to get handled on it.
0:45.3	People during the Cold War talked about Little Else, the Soviet Union and Russian history.
0:49.1	And then for 20 or 30 years, perhaps Russian studies slid slightly more into obscurity,
0:54.3	but they're back, folks, they're back.
0:56.2	And Orlando Fies is back with a gigantic new book on the history of Russia.
1:00.9	Pretty extraordinary timing.
1:02.6	And ask him in this podcast how the events of this winter, the invasion of Ukraine, affected
1:08.5	how he wrote the history.
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