Discover the wild life of Tsar Peter the Great, the towering ruler who changed Russia forever. From his childhood war games in small villages to his secret travels across Western Europe as a ship carpenter, Peter was determined to transform his country into a modern superpower. Learn how Peter built the Russian navy from nothing, fought a brutal decades-long war against King Charles the Twelfth of Sweden, shaved his nobles by hand, and built the city of Saint Petersburg in a frozen swamp.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:15 Chapter 1: The Toy Soldiers of Preobrazhenskoye
05:52 Chapter 2: Incognito in Amsterdam
11:26 Chapter 3: Scissors, Taxes, and the New Order
16:41 Chapter 4: The Swedish Storm and the Iron Tsar
20:25 Chapter 5: A Capital Built on Bones
23:00 Chapter 6: The Price of Empire
25:28 What happened next
Featuring: Tsar Peter I (Peter the Great), Princess Sophia Alekseyevna, Alexander Menshikov, King Charles XII, King William III, Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, Boyar Aleksei Shein
Dialogue dramatised from history; voices are AI-generated.
Maps: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik, GPL-3.0), Natural Earth.
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