The World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Tur…


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This is the sixth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world's history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Topics in Part VI include the Russian Empire, the fights for independence in Hungary and the Balkan states and the politics of early Turkey. - Summary by Sonia

Cast list for Wallenstein and the cuirassiers:
Terzky: alanmapstone / Wallenstein: Foon / Anspessade: Tomas Peter / Second Cuirassier: Eva Davis / Third Cuirassier: Monika M.C. / Butler: Nemo / Narrator: Sonia (16 hr 37 min)

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Skirmish between cossacks and the imperial bodyguard, by Jean Baptiste Edouard … 2:00 Leído por Sonia
Russia Part I: Folk-tales and early history: Historical note 2:38 Leído por Sonia
The imp and the crust, by Count Leo Tolstoy 8:27 Leído por Sonia
The story of iron and the poison water, from the Kalevala 7:20 Leído por Sonia
The country and customs of the Scythians (fifth century B.C.), by Herodotus 15:31 Leído por Sonia
The vengeance of Queen Olga (about 945), from the chronicle of Nestor 9:24 Leído por Jim Locke
Vladimir in search of a religion (about 988), by John S. C. Abbott 10:56 Leído por Jim Locke
Russia Part II: In the days of Ivan the Terrible: Historical note 2:50 Leído por Alan Mapstone
How Russia was freed from the Tartars (1480), by John S. C. Abbott 10:32 Leído por Jim Locke
Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584), by Frances A. Shaw 14:46 Leído por Jim Locke
Life at the Setch (fifteenth century), by Nikolai V. Gogol 23:11 Leído por Jim Locke
The false Czar (1605), by Frances A. Shaw 18:45 Leído por Jim Locke
The kremlin of Moscow, by Bayard Taylor 17:10 Leído por Jim Locke
Russia Part III: Peter the Great: Historical note 3:02 Leído por Alan Mapstone
A morning with Peter the Great (early in the eighteenth century), by Dmitri Mer… 17:08 Leído por Jim Locke
How St. Petersburg was built (1703), by John S. C. Abbott 4:28 Leído por Tomas Peter
A supposed letter from an English architect (1715), by Maurice Baring 14:51 Leído por Colleen McMahon
Russia Part IV: From Catherine the Great to the invasion of Napoleon: Historica… 2:28 Leído por Kristine Bekere
A day with Catherine the Great (1794), by Adrian Moyseevich Gribovski 13:09 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Borodino (1812), by Alexander Sergeyevitch Pushkin 5:55 Leído por Nemo
The burning of Moscow, by Louis Adolph Thiers 8:21 Leído por Colleen McMahon
The crossing of the Beresina river (1812), by John S. C. Abbott 10:01 Leído por Colleen McMahon
Passage of the Beresina, by J. H. Van Papendrecht, painting p. 130 2:13 Leído por Tomas Peter
Russia Part V: Poland: Historical note 3:04 Leído por Foon
The surrender of Kamenyetz (1672), by Henryk Sienkiewicz 20:51 Leído por Jim Locke
Poland or Russia ? (1793), by Jane Porter 15:37 Leído por April6090
The division of Poland, by Sir Edwin Arnold 3:29 Leído por Alan Mapstone
The revolt in Warsaw, 1861, by Joseph Nicholas Robert-Fleury (French painter, 1… 2:50 Leído por Foon
Russia Part VI: Siberia: Historical note 2:12 Leído por Tomas Peter
The conquest of Siberia (1579-1584), by Count Leo Tolstoy 24:22 Leído por tovarisch
Yermak, a folk-song 3:33 Leído por Tomas Peter
How pardon was won for an exile (1808), by Madame Sophie Risteau Cottin 10:03 Leído por Devorah Allen
On the march to Siberia (nineteenth century), by Baroness M. De Packh 9:04 Leído por April6090
A Kirghis warrior, by Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagin (Russia, 1842-1904), paint… 2:24 Leído por cathar maiden
In a Tartar tent (about 1909), by Lindon Bates, Jr. 17:49 Leído por Colleen McMahon
Russia Part VII: A coronation and three wars: Historical note 3:20 Leído por Foon
The coronation of Alexander II (1855), by Count von Moltke 10:54 Leído por Colleen McMahon
The emancipation of the serfs (1861), by Hezekiah Butterworth 3:59 Leído por cathar maiden
The taking of the village (an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey), by Vsye… 12:24 Leído por tovarisch
The capture of a redoubt (an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey), by Vasil… 18:02 Leído por tovarisch
Coaling at sea (1905), by Commander Vladimir Semenoff, of the Imperial Russian … 18:24 Leído por tovarisch
Russia Part VIII: Life in modern Russia: Historical note 1:58 Leído por Tomas Peter
The races on the Neva river (1870), by Théophile Gautier 9:59 Leído por techpsalti
A little Jewish girl in Russia, by Mary Antin 9:26 Leído por April6090
The fair of Nijni-Novgorod, by Edna Dean Proctor 3:00 Leído por Alan Mapstone
Austria-Hungary Part I: From the Tartar invasion to the Reformation: Historical… 2:40 Leído por Availle
The coming of the Tartars (1240), by Louis Felbermann 7:00 Leído por Jim Locke
How Rudolf the First became Emperor (1273), by John S. C. Abbott 15:39 Leído por Jim Locke
Stories of Rudolf, founder of the house of Hapsburg (thirteenth century), by Wi… 10:34 Leído por Jim Locke
How Naumburg was saved, by Jaroslav Cermak (Bohemian artist, - 1878), painting … 1:35 Leído por Foon
The deliverance of Prague (1420), by E. H. Gillett 16:36 Leído por Colleen McMahon
A funeral menu of the sixteenth century (1509), from the old chronicles 4:50 Leído por Nemo
The emperor Maximilian receiving the Venetian embassy, by Karl Ludwig Friedrich… 2:48 Leído por Nemo
Austria-Hungary Part II: The religious wars of the seventeenth century: Histori… 2:10 Leído por Availle
The devastation of St. Vitus's church (1619-1620), by Marie Hay 16:27 Leído por Colleen McMahon
Wallenstein, the deposed general (1630), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schi… 7:19 Leído por Sonia
Wallenstein and the cuirassiers (1634), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schil… 14:57 Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
How John Sobieski saved Vienna from the Turks (1683), by John S. C. Abbott 10:06 Leído por realisticspeakers
Austria-Hungary Part III: From Maria Theresa to the downfall of Napoleon: Histo… 2:59 Leído por Availle
How Maria Theresa of Austria became King (1740), by John S. C. Abbott 11:20 Leído por April6090
The command of Maria Theresa, by John S. C. Abbott 11:29 Leído por Larry Wilson
Hohenlinden (1800), by Thomas Campbell 2:45 Leído por Monika M. C.
The battle of Austerlitz (1805), by John S. C. Abbott 5:24 Leído por Tomas Peter
How the French honored Joseph Haydn (1805), by ''Louisa Mühlbach'' (Klara M. Mu… 10:38 Leído por Nemo
Andreas Hofer rallying the Tyrolean mountaineers, by Franz von Defregger (Austr… 2:16 Leído por Monika M. C.
Austria-Hungary Part IV: The nineteenth century: Historical note 2:27 Leído por Availle
After the battle of Szolnok (1849), by Maurus Jókai 18:25 Leído por Jim Locke
The unlucky weathercock (1849), by Maurus Jókai 12:22 Leído por Jim Locke
Kossuth's farewell (1849) 5:57 Leído por Sonia
The salt mines of Wieliczka (1850), by Bayard Taylor 12:09 Leído por ToddHW
Austria-Hungary Part V: Stories and poems of Bohemia, Hungary, and the Tyrol: H… 1:31 Leído por Tomas Peter
The dog and the wolf, a Bohemian folk-tale, retold by Theodor Vernaleken 7:29 Leído por April6090
The poor man and the king of the crows, a Magyar folk-tale, retold by Jeremiah … 21:39 Leído por Devorah Allen
St. Kümmerniss, a legend of the Tyrol 5:39 Leído por Nemo
The legend of St. Kümmerniss, by François Joseph Heim (French artist, 1787-1865… 1:22 Leído por Nemo
Stories of the gypsies 12:42 Leído por April6090
Two Magyar poems 5:09 Leído por Foon
A Csikos race, by Alexander Wagner (Hungarian artist, 1838), painting p. 408 2:02 Leído por Alan Mapstone
The Balkan States: Historical note 3:22 Leído por Nemo
Marko and the Turks (fifteenth century), an old Servian ballad 7:21 Leído por Sonia
Montenegro, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2:01 Leído por Alan Mapstone
An attack on the Bashi-Bazouks (1907), by Arthur D. Howden Smith 28:36 Leído por Jim Locke
Herzegovinians returning to a village sacked by the Bashi-Bazouks, by Jaroslav … 2:24 Leído por Nemo
The siege of Adrianople (1912), by Philip Gibbs 8:45 Leído por April6090
The flight from Lule-Burgas (1912), by Bernard Grant 19:07 Leído por Jim Locke
Turkey Part I: To the capture of Constantinople: Historical note 3:04 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Constantinople, a city built to order (fourth century), by Edward Gibbon 11:40 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The coming of the comet (1402), by Maurus Jókai 19:16 Leído por ToddHW
Scanderbeg (about 1450), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 7:29 Leído por cathar maiden
The fall of Constantinople (1453), by Edward Gibbon 15:51 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Turkey Part II: Turkey at the height of her power: Historical note 2:35 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The tribute of children, by Anonymous 6:06 Leído por Tomas Peter
The little Janizary (about 1453), by James M. Ludlow 19:04 Leído por Jim Locke
The surrender of Rhodes (1522), by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine 11:28 Leído por realisticspeakers
A visit to the wife of Solyman the Magnificent (sixteenth century), translated … 3:34 Leído por Sonia
Dining with the Sultana (1718), by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 7:58 Leído por April6090
Turkey Part III: The sick man of Europe: Historical note 2:31 Leído por Alan Mapstone
The last of the Janizaries (1826), by Maurus Jókai 19:28 Leído por realisticspeakers
The muezzin, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French artist, 1824-1904), painting p. 528 2:54 Leído por Alan Mapstone
''The House of Fear'' (1908), by Francis McCullagh 21:19 Leído por Jim Locke
The silent army (1909), by Francis McCullagh 11:03 Leído por Nemo
Turkey Part IV: Turkish stories: Historical note 1:04 Leído por Tomas Peter
''The lamb bolted'', a legend of Turkish justice 6:20 Leído por Devorah Allen
Stories of Nasr-Eddin Hoja 6:14 Leído por TJ Burns
A Turkish friendship (eighteenth century), by Cheliby Yorgaki 9:34 Leído por Jim Locke
Turkey Part V: Stories of Turkish life and customs: Historical note 1:47 Leído por Foon
The first telegraph in Turkey (1854), by Sir J. William Whittall 2:32 Leído por Alan Mapstone
Choosing a wife for the son, by Lucy M. J. Garnett 4:30 Leído por thestorygirl
''Protestant bread'', by Cyrus Hamlin, D. D. 7:03 Leído por Foon
The dancing dervishes, by Julia Pardoe 11:18 Leído por Devorah Allen
Ceremony of dervishes at Scutari, by Albert Aublet (French artist, 1851), paint… 1:44 Leído por Sonia
A Turkish ''What for ?'', by Demetra Vaka 8:02 Leído por Sonia

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