10.14- The Tsar Liberator

10.14- The Tsar Liberator

Up next

10.15- The Tsar Must Die

Kids today have no respect.  Sponsor: casper.com/revolutions 

10.16- The Russian Colony

Time to start mixing the baking soda and vinegar.  

Recommended Episodes

The Emancipation of the Serfs
In Our Time: History

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1861 declaration by Tsar Alexander II that serfs were now legally free of their landlords. Until then, over a third of Russians were tied to the land on which they lived and worked and in practice there was little to distinguish their condition ...  Show more

90. The Russian Revolution: Overthrowing the Tsar
Empire: World History

Russian politics is fast destabilising. Strikes, assassinations, and famines have made Russia increasingly turbulent at the turn of the century. Revolutionary politics is on the rise, as is dissatisfaction with the tsar. When compounded by the strains of the defeat in the Russo-J ...  Show more

473. The Road to The Great War: The Tsar Chooses War (Part 5)
The Rest Is History

“We have been forced to draw the sword”. Following the expiry of Austria’s Ultimatum on Saturday 25th July 1914, the Kaiser and the Tsar - friends and cousins, long desirous of peace between their two nations - found themselves in a new and highly precarious situation. Even so, t ...  Show more

053- Reigning Supreme
The History of Rome

After attaining power, Augustus set about reforming the Empire.