The Daring Empire: Customs, Clothing and Life of the Petrine Era
20 hrs. 7 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Lev Berdnikov
Author
Lev Berdnikov
Narrator
Igor Pronin
Narrator
Igor Pronin
Description
The most curious and most unexpected pages of the Great Epoch of the Great Tsar.
The 18th century is the most mysterious and fascinating period in Russian history. It reveals to us the most curious and often unexpected pages of that glorious era, when the boundaries between performance and life itself blur—when everything turns into a grand costumed ball filled with intrigues and palace secrets. The fates of an entire constellation of heroes from bygone times are traced, with loud names—and with names completely forgotten today. At the same time, even familiar characters—Peter I, Franz Lefort, Alexander Menshikov, Catherine I, Anna Ioannovna, Elizabeth Petrovna, Catherine II, Ivan Shuvalov, Paul I—are shown as daring legislators of a new fashion and a new form of behavior. Peter the Great tried to introduce a European way of life on Russian soil. But it took root with difficulty: at times everything looked funny and absurd. Curious wedding processions that carried a young couple to their certain death in the icy mansion, festivities arranged in a jester-like manner—everything smelled of barbarity and cruelty. Why did it happen that way? You’ll find the answer in an audiobook by the historian and cultural scholar Lev Berdnikov.
The 18th century is the most mysterious and fascinating period in Russian history. It reveals to us the most curious and often unexpected pages of that glorious era, when the boundaries between performance and life itself blur—when everything turns into a grand costumed ball filled with intrigues and palace secrets. The fates of an entire constellation of heroes from bygone times are traced, with loud names—and with names completely forgotten today. At the same time, even familiar characters—Peter I, Franz Lefort, Alexander Menshikov, Catherine I, Anna Ioannovna, Elizabeth Petrovna, Catherine II, Ivan Shuvalov, Paul I—are shown as daring legislators of a new fashion and a new form of behavior. Peter the Great tried to introduce a European way of life on Russian soil. But it took root with difficulty: at times everything looked funny and absurd. Curious wedding processions that carried a young couple to their certain death in the icy mansion, festivities arranged in a jester-like manner—everything smelled of barbarity and cruelty. Why did it happen that way? You’ll find the answer in an audiobook by the historian and cultural scholar Lev Berdnikov.
29:05
01_Po imeni Velikiy. Vasiliy Golitsyn
44:16
02_Mentor dlya russkogo tsarya. Frants Lefort
23:28
03_Ventsenosnyy bradobrey. Petr I
44:01
04_Prederzkoe schegolstvo
31:07
05_Nesostoyavshayasya tsaritsa. Anna Mons
25:57
06_Rossiyskiy boyard. Boris Sheremetev
17:06
07_Metamorfozy stolnika. Petr Tolstoy
26:43
08_Siyatelnyy kaznokrad, ili Tsena schegolstva. Matvey Gagarin
28:22
09_«Ne skorbya o suete mira sego». Aleksandr Menshikov
35:20
10_Pervyy rossiyskiy politsmeyster. Anton Diver
33:51
11_«Roskoshna vo vsem prostranstve sego nazvaniya...» Ekaterina I
22:39
12_Kazn freyliny, ili Urok anatomii. Mariya Gamilton
31:28
13_Revnuya k Petru Velikomu... Anna Kramer
44:21
14_Vechno vlyublennyy. Villim Mons
33:08
15_Blesk i nischeta dvora Petra Vtorogo. Petr II
39:04
16_Vertoprah, lyubovyu ispravlennyy. Ivan Dolgorukov
45:03
17_Svadby peli i plyasali. Anna Ioannovna kak avtor i ispolnitel
38:03
18_Neistovyy revnitel slavy. Burhard Hristofor Minih
23:00
19_«Obyazan zhenschinam». Reyngold Gustav Levenvolde
1:10:07
20_Nakazannaya dobrodetel. Anna Leopoldovna
26:20
21_Samoderzhavnaya modnitsa. Imperatritsa Elizaveta
20:33
22_Derzost Alekseya Rzhevskogo
28:51
23_Sopernitsa monarhini. Natalya Lopuhina
41:08
24_Mimoletnye favority
32:40
25_Oboydennyy nagradoy. Platon Musin-Pushkin
21:08
26_«Schaste vo sne prishlo». Nikita Beketov
26:21
27_Russkiy Pompadur. Ivan Shuvalov
27:45
28_«Sozdala slavu russkih». Ekaterina II
34:02
29_Demon intrigi. Sergey Saltykov
50:06
30_Iz schegoley – v metsenaty. Semen Naryshkin
32:00
31_Chelovek utonchenno-beznravstvennyy. Andrey Razumovskiy
33:42
32_Brilliantovyy knyaz. Aleksandr Kurakin
20:40
33_Tiraniya mody. Pavel I
25:21
34_Schegol Pavlovskih vremen. Ivan Bryzgalov
27:00
35_Galstuk ot Gorgoli. Mihail Magnitskiy. Ivan Gorgoli
1:14:12
36_Petimetr govoryaschiy i chitayuschiy
