Who are the Russians? Rurik to Yaropolk I
Russian Rulers History Podcast
Mark Schauss
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2010
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Uyghum |
| 0:10.8 | Gell, Yes, or, sir, |
| 0:14.0 | or us, if yes sure us. |
| 0:18.0 | We're you can, |
| 0:20.0 | again, where he ukgenel, Welcome to the Russian rulers history podcast. I'm your host Mark Schaus. |
| 0:31.5 | Episode 1. I'm your host Mark Schaus. |
| 0:32.6 | Episode number one. |
| 0:34.9 | Who are the Russians? |
| 0:36.7 | And from Rurik to Yarra Polk the first. |
| 0:42.0 | The music you just heard, which will be leading off our podcast as we go along is the |
| 0:48.0 | Volga Boat song, a haunting piece that hints at the soul of the Russian people and its history. |
| 0:55.0 | You're probably trying this podcast out because of an interest in history, |
| 1:00.0 | or maybe it's because of an interest in Russian history. I hope through the coming |
| 1:06.2 | podcasts to enrich your knowledge of this vast and incredible peoples through their rulers. |
| 1:14.0 | My interest in Russian history came from two people |
| 1:18.0 | with the first being my mother, Allah, and her family, |
| 1:21.0 | who emigrated first from Russia through St. Petersburg, where they lived, |
| 1:27.2 | then through Yugoslavia and finally to the United States. Also I was brought up as a Russian Orthodox and I was enriched by its long history as an intricate |
| 1:38.4 | part of Russian culture. |
| 1:41.2 | The second person was my college professor back in 1977, Dr Paul Averich. |
| 1:47.0 | I so wanted to be a Russian history professor, but Dr. Averich said my Russian was strictly Kucnyruzki or Kitchen Russian. |
| 1:57.0 | And that just wasn't good enough. |
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