Skirmish between cossacks and the imperial bodyguard, by Jean Baptiste Edouard …

2:00

Read by Sonia

Russia Part I: Folk-tales and early history: Historical note

2:38

Read by Sonia

The imp and the crust, by Count Leo Tolstoy

8:27

Read by Sonia

The story of iron and the poison water, from the Kalevala

7:20

Read by Sonia

The country and customs of the Scythians (fifth century B.C.), by Herodotus

15:31

Read by Sonia

The vengeance of Queen Olga (about 945), from the chronicle of Nestor

9:24

Read by Jim Locke

Vladimir in search of a religion (about 988), by John S. C. Abbott

10:56

Read by Jim Locke

Russia Part II: In the days of Ivan the Terrible: Historical note

2:50

Read by Alan Mapstone

How Russia was freed from the Tartars (1480), by John S. C. Abbott

10:32

Read by Jim Locke

Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584), by Frances A. Shaw

14:46

Read by Jim Locke

Life at the Setch (fifteenth century), by Nikolai V. Gogol

23:11

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The false Czar (1605), by Frances A. Shaw

18:45

Read by Jim Locke

The kremlin of Moscow, by Bayard Taylor

17:10

Read by Jim Locke

Russia Part III: Peter the Great: Historical note

3:02

Read by Alan Mapstone

A morning with Peter the Great (early in the eighteenth century), by Dmitri Mer…

17:08

Read by Jim Locke

How St. Petersburg was built (1703), by John S. C. Abbott

4:28

Read by Tomas Peter

A supposed letter from an English architect (1715), by Maurice Baring

14:51

Read by Colleen McMahon

Russia Part IV: From Catherine the Great to the invasion of Napoleon: Historica…

2:28

Read by Kristine Bekere

A day with Catherine the Great (1794), by Adrian Moyseevich Gribovski

13:09

Read by Kristine Bekere

Borodino (1812), by Alexander Sergeyevitch Pushkin

5:55

Read by Nemo

The burning of Moscow, by Louis Adolph Thiers

8:21

Read by Colleen McMahon

The crossing of the Beresina river (1812), by John S. C. Abbott

10:01

Read by Colleen McMahon

Passage of the Beresina, by J. H. Van Papendrecht, painting p. 130

2:13

Read by Tomas Peter

Russia Part V: Poland: Historical note

3:04

Read by Foon

The surrender of Kamenyetz (1672), by Henryk Sienkiewicz

20:51

Read by Jim Locke

Poland or Russia ? (1793), by Jane Porter

15:37

Read by April6090

The division of Poland, by Sir Edwin Arnold

3:29

Read by Alan Mapstone

The revolt in Warsaw, 1861, by Joseph Nicholas Robert-Fleury (French painter, 1…

2:50

Read by Foon

Russia Part VI: Siberia: Historical note

2:12

Read by Tomas Peter

The conquest of Siberia (1579-1584), by Count Leo Tolstoy

24:22

Read by tovarisch

Yermak, a folk-song

3:33

Read by Tomas Peter

How pardon was won for an exile (1808), by Madame Sophie Risteau Cottin

10:03

Read by Devorah Allen

On the march to Siberia (nineteenth century), by Baroness M. De Packh

9:04

Read by April6090

A Kirghis warrior, by Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagin (Russia, 1842-1904), paint…

2:24

Read by cathar maiden

In a Tartar tent (about 1909), by Lindon Bates, Jr.

17:49

Read by Colleen McMahon

Russia Part VII: A coronation and three wars: Historical note

3:20

Read by Foon

The coronation of Alexander II (1855), by Count von Moltke

10:54

Read by Colleen McMahon

The emancipation of the serfs (1861), by Hezekiah Butterworth

3:59

Read by cathar maiden

The taking of the village (an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey), by Vsye…

12:24

Read by tovarisch

The capture of a redoubt (an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey), by Vasil…

18:02

Read by tovarisch

Coaling at sea (1905), by Commander Vladimir Semenoff, of the Imperial Russian …

18:24

Read by tovarisch

Russia Part VIII: Life in modern Russia: Historical note

1:58

Read by Tomas Peter

The races on the Neva river (1870), by Théophile Gautier

9:59

Read by techpsalti

A little Jewish girl in Russia, by Mary Antin

9:26

Read by April6090

The fair of Nijni-Novgorod, by Edna Dean Proctor

3:00

Read by Alan Mapstone

Austria-Hungary Part I: From the Tartar invasion to the Reformation: Historical…

2:40

Read by Availle

The coming of the Tartars (1240), by Louis Felbermann

7:00

Read by Jim Locke

How Rudolf the First became Emperor (1273), by John S. C. Abbott

15:39

Read by Jim Locke

Stories of Rudolf, founder of the house of Hapsburg (thirteenth century), by Wi…

10:34

Read by Jim Locke

How Naumburg was saved, by Jaroslav Cermak (Bohemian artist, - 1878), painting …

1:35

Read by Foon

The deliverance of Prague (1420), by E. H. Gillett

16:36

Read by Colleen McMahon

A funeral menu of the sixteenth century (1509), from the old chronicles

4:50

Read by Nemo

The emperor Maximilian receiving the Venetian embassy, by Karl Ludwig Friedrich…

2:48

Read by Nemo

Austria-Hungary Part II: The religious wars of the seventeenth century: Histori…

2:10

Read by Availle

The devastation of St. Vitus's church (1619-1620), by Marie Hay

16:27

Read by Colleen McMahon

Wallenstein, the deposed general (1630), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schi…

7:19

Read by Sonia

Wallenstein and the cuirassiers (1634), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schil…

14:57

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

How John Sobieski saved Vienna from the Turks (1683), by John S. C. Abbott

10:06

Read by realisticspeakers

Austria-Hungary Part III: From Maria Theresa to the downfall of Napoleon: Histo…

2:59

Read by Availle

How Maria Theresa of Austria became King (1740), by John S. C. Abbott

11:20

Read by April6090

The command of Maria Theresa, by John S. C. Abbott

11:29

Read by Larry Wilson

Hohenlinden (1800), by Thomas Campbell

2:45

Read by Monika M. C.

The battle of Austerlitz (1805), by John S. C. Abbott

5:24

Read by Tomas Peter

How the French honored Joseph Haydn (1805), by ''Louisa Mühlbach'' (Klara M. Mu…

10:38

Read by Nemo

Andreas Hofer rallying the Tyrolean mountaineers, by Franz von Defregger (Austr…

2:16

Read by Monika M. C.

Austria-Hungary Part IV: The nineteenth century: Historical note

2:27

Read by Availle

After the battle of Szolnok (1849), by Maurus Jókai

18:25

Read by Jim Locke

The unlucky weathercock (1849), by Maurus Jókai

12:22

Read by Jim Locke

Kossuth's farewell (1849)

5:57

Read by Sonia

The salt mines of Wieliczka (1850), by Bayard Taylor

12:09

Read by ToddHW

Austria-Hungary Part V: Stories and poems of Bohemia, Hungary, and the Tyrol: H…

1:31

Read by Tomas Peter

The dog and the wolf, a Bohemian folk-tale, retold by Theodor Vernaleken

7:29

Read by April6090

The poor man and the king of the crows, a Magyar folk-tale, retold by Jeremiah …

21:39

Read by Devorah Allen

St. Kümmerniss, a legend of the Tyrol

5:39

Read by Nemo

The legend of St. Kümmerniss, by François Joseph Heim (French artist, 1787-1865…

1:22

Read by Nemo

Stories of the gypsies

12:42

Read by April6090

Two Magyar poems

5:09

Read by Foon

A Csikos race, by Alexander Wagner (Hungarian artist, 1838), painting p. 408

2:02

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Balkan States: Historical note

3:22

Read by Nemo

Marko and the Turks (fifteenth century), an old Servian ballad

7:21

Read by Sonia

Montenegro, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

2:01

Read by Alan Mapstone

An attack on the Bashi-Bazouks (1907), by Arthur D. Howden Smith

28:36

Read by Jim Locke

Herzegovinians returning to a village sacked by the Bashi-Bazouks, by Jaroslav …

2:24

Read by Nemo

The siege of Adrianople (1912), by Philip Gibbs

8:45

Read by April6090

The flight from Lule-Burgas (1912), by Bernard Grant

19:07

Read by Jim Locke

Turkey Part I: To the capture of Constantinople: Historical note

3:04

Read by Kristine Bekere

Constantinople, a city built to order (fourth century), by Edward Gibbon

11:40

Read by Kristine Bekere

The coming of the comet (1402), by Maurus Jókai

19:16

Read by ToddHW

Scanderbeg (about 1450), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

7:29

Read by cathar maiden

The fall of Constantinople (1453), by Edward Gibbon

15:51

Read by Kristine Bekere

Turkey Part II: Turkey at the height of her power: Historical note

2:35

Read by Kristine Bekere

The tribute of children, by Anonymous

6:06

Read by Tomas Peter

The little Janizary (about 1453), by James M. Ludlow

19:04

Read by Jim Locke

The surrender of Rhodes (1522), by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

11:28

Read by realisticspeakers

A visit to the wife of Solyman the Magnificent (sixteenth century), translated …

3:34

Read by Sonia

Dining with the Sultana (1718), by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

7:58

Read by April6090

Turkey Part III: The sick man of Europe: Historical note

2:31

Read by Alan Mapstone

The last of the Janizaries (1826), by Maurus Jókai

19:28

Read by realisticspeakers

The muezzin, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French artist, 1824-1904), painting p. 528

2:54

Read by Alan Mapstone

''The House of Fear'' (1908), by Francis McCullagh

21:19

Read by Jim Locke

The silent army (1909), by Francis McCullagh

11:03

Read by Nemo

Turkey Part IV: Turkish stories: Historical note

1:04

Read by Tomas Peter

''The lamb bolted'', a legend of Turkish justice

6:20

Read by Devorah Allen

Stories of Nasr-Eddin Hoja

6:14

Read by TJ Burns

A Turkish friendship (eighteenth century), by Cheliby Yorgaki

9:34

Read by Jim Locke

Turkey Part V: Stories of Turkish life and customs: Historical note

1:47

Read by Foon

The first telegraph in Turkey (1854), by Sir J. William Whittall

2:32

Read by Alan Mapstone

Choosing a wife for the son, by Lucy M. J. Garnett

4:30

Read by thestorygirl

''Protestant bread'', by Cyrus Hamlin, D. D.

7:03

Read by Foon

The dancing dervishes, by Julia Pardoe

11:18

Read by Devorah Allen

Ceremony of dervishes at Scutari, by Albert Aublet (French artist, 1851), paint…

1:44

Read by Sonia

A Turkish ''What for ?'', by Demetra Vaka

8:02

Read by Sonia

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