Historical Biographies Russia

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    • Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
    • By: Helen Rappaport
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • Helen Rappaport, an expert in the field of Russian history, brings you the riveting day-by-day account of the last 14 days of the Russian Imperial family....

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    • Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief
    • By: Tennent H. Bagley
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 771 ratings
    • From the dark days of World War II through the Cold War, Sergey A. Kondrashev was a major player in Russia’s notorious KGB espionage apparatus....

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    • The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
    • By: Donnie Eichar
    • Narrated by: Donnie Eichar
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,716 ratings
    • In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain....

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    • The Court of the Red Tsar
    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
    • Length: 27 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,003 ratings
    • In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research, brilliant synthesis and narrative élan, Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the life and lives of Stalin’s court from the time of his acclamation as “leader” in 1929, five years after Lenin’s death, until his own death in 1953 at the age of 73....

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    • Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs
    • By: Douglas Smith
    • Narrated by: PJ Ochlan
    • Length: 33 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 358 ratings
    • Drawing on a wealth of forgotten documents from archives in seven countries, Smith presents Rasputin in all his complexity - man of God, voice of peace, loyal subject, adulterer, drunkard....

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    • The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
    • By: Helen Rappaport
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 892 ratings
    • They were the Princess Dianas of their day—perhaps the most photographed and talked about young royals of the early twentieth century. The four captivating Russian Grand Duchesses—Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Romanov—were much admired for their happy dispositions, their looks, the clothes....

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    • Literature, Ambition, and Survival; The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov
    • By: Brian J. Boeck
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature....

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    • George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia
    • By: Gregory J. Wallance
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia was wielding to suppress dissent....

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    • The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
    • By: Victor Sebestyen
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
    • Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 583 ratings
    • Bringing Lenin to life for the first time as a complex human being, Sebestyen casts a new light on the Russian Revolution, one of the great turning points of modern history....

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    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 336 ratings
    • Young Stalin tells the story of an exceptional, charismatic, darkly turbulent young man born into obscurity, fancying himself a poet and a priest....

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    • Viking Warriors Including Rollo, Norsemen, Norse Mythology, Quests in America, England, France, Scotland, Ireland and Russia
    • By: Noah Brown
    • Narrated by: Dalan E. Decker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 242 ratings
    • Ragnar Lothbrok was a legendary warrior who left a legacy among the Vikings like none other. Today's popular TV show may have popularized Ragnar's story, but the real facts are not very well known. Discover the truth behind this Viking warrior and the rich history of the Vikings....

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    • The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives
    • By: Edvard Radzinsky
    • Narrated by: David McCallum
    • Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky has broken down the iron curtain...

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    • An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
    • By: Steve Kemper
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • A gripping, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during the volatile decade that led to World War II, as seen through the eyes of the American ambassador who attempted to stop the slide to war....

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    • Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman
    • By: Mansur Abdulin
    • Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Mansur Abdulin fought in the front ranks of the Soviet infantry against the German invaders at Stalingrad, Kursk, and on the banks of the Dnieper. This is his extraordinary story....

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    • The Final Chapter
    • By: Robert K. Massie
    • Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
    • Series: The Romanovs
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 198 ratings
    • The Romanovs provides the answers, describing in suspenseful detail the dramatic efforts to discover the truth. Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie presents a colorful panorama of contemporary characters....

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    • A Romanov Tragedy
    • By: Christopher Warwick
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Described as the 'most beautiful princess in Europe', and a woman 'capable of arousing profane passion', this is the story of a woman whose life combined privilege and tragedy, love and riches, conviction and courage, humanity and inhumanity....

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