Show overview
The History of Russia Podcast has been publishing since 2021, and across the 5 years since has built a catalogue of 120 episodes. That works out to roughly 50 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a monthly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 24 min and 28 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language History show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 4 days ago, with 19 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2022, with 29 episodes published. Published by Damon Boar.
From the publisher
A podcast exploring everything related to the History of Russia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Latest Episodes
View all 120 episodesEpisode 116 - 1812 (Part Two) The Roads to Smolensk
Episode 115 - 1812 (Part One) And so it begins
Episode 114 - The Cracks Widen
Episode 113 - The Cracks Appear
Episode 112 - Tilsit
Episode 111 - Austerlitz
Episode 110 - Guilt, Altruism and the Unofficial Committee
Episode 109 — Russia in the 18th Century: A Cultural Perspective
Episode 108 — 23rd March 1801
Episode 107 — India, the Sphinx and Conspiracy
Episode 106 — The Corsican, the Knights, and the Swiss Fiasco
Episode 105 - Catherine the who?
Episode 104 - The End of an Era
Episode 103 - Villages, Partitions, and Revolution.
Episode 102 - Victory and stalemate
Episode 101 - The early 1780’s
Episode 100, Russia’s story so far, and the world in 1780.
In today’s episode there are three things on the agenda.An overall summary of the key events and main themes of The History of Russia from 840i to 1780 and how those themes and events had made Russia what it had become by the late 18th CenturyA whizz around the world in 1780 to see what was going on outside of Russia, again big-picture wise.And then as if that wasn’t enough you’ll get to hear me waffling on about the pitiful existence of an independent podcaster and what I think the future holds for me and others like me who do the same thing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 99 - The almost empty in-tray
This time around we'll be covering a 5 year period 1776 -1780 where Russia was going through a very rare calm period particularly when balanced against what had gone on between 1768 and 1775 and what would take place in the late 1780s. But that’s not to say, as you will soon see, that nothing was happening.Apologies, one Rooster in particular decided that the early part of the episode wasn't quite to his liking and decided to complain, loudly and often. I managed to edit most of it out but you can still catch the occasional bit of crowing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 98 - Two Weddings, Two Deaths and a Cockroach
After a long lay off the boy is back!Today, we’re going to track back to look at some other events that took place between 1772 and 1777 and in particular what was going on with Catherine and her son Paul and the steps that the empress would take to deal with yet another pretender to the Russian throne. Oh, and right at the end I’ll tell you a bit about what I’ve been up to over the last couple of months and how that will hopefully affect, the podcast’s future, in a positive way, and apologies in advance, I’m just getting over a bout of Tonsillitis and so my voice might be a bit up and down. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Podcast Update - November 2025
Just a short update from me about life in general and the short-term impact to the podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.