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Historical Tales, Volume VIII: Russian

by Charles MORRIS (1833 - 1922)

Oleg the Varangian

These Russian tales span the time of Russia's founding in the 800s-900s all the way to the early twentieth century and are factually based, although particularly the older tales have become legendary. ( DrPGould)

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Listen next episodes of Historical Tales, Volume VIII: Russian:
A Magical Transformation Scene , A Struggle for a Throne , A Window Open to Europe , An Escape from the Mines of Siberia , At the Gates of Constantinople , Buffooneries of the Russian Court , Carpenter Peter of Zaandam , From the Hovel to the Throne , How a Woman Dethroned a Man , Ivan, the First of the Czars , Ivan the Terrible , Kosciusko and the Fall of Poland , Mazeppa, the Cossack Chief , Schamyl, the Hero of Circassia , Suwarrow the Unconquerable , The Advance of Russia in Asia , The Book of Ancestry , The Boyhood of Peter the Great , The Charge of the Light Brigade , The Conquest of Siberia , The Crusade Against Beards and Cloaks , The Death-Struggle of Poland , The Era of Impostors , The Fall of Novgorod the Great , The Fall of Sebastopol , The Fall of Strelitz , The Flight of the Kalmucks , The Lawgiver of Russia , The Macbeth of Russia , The Nihilists and Their Work , The Railroad in Turkestan , The Retreat of Napoleon's Grand Army , The Sea Fight in the Waters of Japan , The Vengeance of Queen Olga , The Victory of the Don , The Yoke of the Tartars , Vladimir the Great