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

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

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Number of Chapters: 112

Length: 16 hours and 37 minutes

Language: English

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

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Skirmish between cossacks and the imperial bodyguard, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille, (France 1848), painting, frontispiece (Sonia)
Russia Part I: Folk-tales and early history: Historical note (Sonia)
The imp and the crust, by Count Leo Tolstoy (Sonia)
The story of iron and the poison water, from the Kalevala (Sonia)
The country and customs of the Scythians (fifth century B.C.), by Herodotus (Sonia)
The vengeance of Queen Olga (about 945), from the chronicle of Nestor (Jim Locke)
Vladimir in search of a religion (about 988), by John S. C. Abbott (Jim Locke)
Russia Part II: In the days of Ivan the Terrible: Historical note (Alan Mapstone)
How Russia was freed from the Tartars (1480), by John S. C. Abbott (Jim Locke)
Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584), by Frances A. Shaw (Jim Locke)
Life at the Setch (fifteenth century), by Nikolai V. Gogol (Jim Locke)
The false Czar (1605), by Frances A. Shaw (Jim Locke)
The kremlin of Moscow, by Bayard Taylor (Jim Locke)
Russia Part III: Peter the Great: Historical note (Alan Mapstone)
A morning with Peter the Great (early in the eighteenth century), by Dmitri Merejkowski (Jim Locke)
How St. Petersburg was built (1703), by John S. C. Abbott (Tomas Peter)
A supposed letter from an English architect (1715), by Maurice Baring (Colleen McMahon)
Russia Part IV: From Catherine the Great to the invasion of Napoleon: Historical note (Kristine Bekere)
A day with Catherine the Great (1794), by Adrian Moyseevich Gribovski (Kristine Bekere)
Borodino (1812), by Alexander Sergeyevitch Pushkin (Nemo)
The burning of Moscow, by Louis Adolph Thiers (Colleen McMahon)
The crossing of the Beresina river (1812), by John S. C. Abbott (Colleen McMahon)
Passage of the Beresina, by J. H. Van Papendrecht, painting p. 130 (Tomas Peter)
Russia Part V: Poland: Historical note (Foon)
The surrender of Kamenyetz (1672), by Henryk Sienkiewicz (Jim Locke)
Poland or Russia ? (1793), by Jane Porter (April6090)
The division of Poland, by Sir Edwin Arnold (Alan Mapstone)
The revolt in Warsaw, 1861, by Joseph Nicholas Robert-Fleury (French painter, 1792-1890), painting p. 158 (Foon)
Russia Part VI: Siberia: Historical note (Tomas Peter)
The conquest of Siberia (1579-1584), by Count Leo Tolstoy (tovarisch)
Yermak, a folk-song (Tomas Peter)
How pardon was won for an exile (1808), by Madame Sophie Risteau Cottin (Devorah Allen)
On the march to Siberia (nineteenth century), by Baroness M. De Packh (April6090)
A Kirghis warrior, by Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagin (Russia, 1842-1904), painting p. 186 (cathar maiden)
In a Tartar tent (about 1909), by Lindon Bates, Jr. (Colleen McMahon)
Russia Part VII: A coronation and three wars: Historical note (Foon)
The coronation of Alexander II (1855), by Count von Moltke (Colleen McMahon)
The emancipation of the serfs (1861), by Hezekiah Butterworth (cathar maiden)
The taking of the village (an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey), by Vsyevolod Mikhailovitch Garshin (tovarisch)
The capture of a redoubt (an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey), by Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagin (tovarisch)
Coaling at sea (1905), by Commander Vladimir Semenoff, of the Imperial Russian Navy (tovarisch)
Russia Part VIII: Life in modern Russia: Historical note (Tomas Peter)
The races on the Neva river (1870), by Théophile Gautier (techpsalti)
A little Jewish girl in Russia, by Mary Antin (April6090)
The fair of Nijni-Novgorod, by Edna Dean Proctor (Alan Mapstone)
Austria-Hungary Part I: From the Tartar invasion to the Reformation: Historical note (Availle)
The coming of the Tartars (1240), by Louis Felbermann (Jim Locke)
How Rudolf the First became Emperor (1273), by John S. C. Abbott (Jim Locke)
Stories of Rudolf, founder of the house of Hapsburg (thirteenth century), by William Coxe (Jim Locke)
How Naumburg was saved, by Jaroslav Cermak (Bohemian artist, - 1878), painting p. 270 (Foon)
The deliverance of Prague (1420), by E. H. Gillett (Colleen McMahon)
A funeral menu of the sixteenth century (1509), from the old chronicles (Nemo)
The emperor Maximilian receiving the Venetian embassy, by Karl Ludwig Friedrich Becker (German artist, 1820-1900), painting p. 284 (Nemo)
Austria-Hungary Part II: The religious wars of the seventeenth century: Historical note (Availle)
The devastation of St. Vitus's church (1619-1620), by Marie Hay (Colleen McMahon)
Wallenstein, the deposed general (1630), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (Sonia)
Wallenstein and the cuirassiers (1634), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (Group)
How John Sobieski saved Vienna from the Turks (1683), by John S. C. Abbott (realisticspeakers)
Austria-Hungary Part III: From Maria Theresa to the downfall of Napoleon: Historical note (Availle)
How Maria Theresa of Austria became King (1740), by John S. C. Abbott (April6090)
The command of Maria Theresa, by John S. C. Abbott (Larry Wilson)
Hohenlinden (1800), by Thomas Campbell (Monika M. C.)
The battle of Austerlitz (1805), by John S. C. Abbott (Tomas Peter)
How the French honored Joseph Haydn (1805), by ''Louisa Mühlbach'' (Klara M. Mundt) (Nemo)
Andreas Hofer rallying the Tyrolean mountaineers, by Franz von Defregger (Austrian painter, 1835), painting p. 344 (Monika M. C.)
Austria-Hungary Part IV: The nineteenth century: Historical note (Availle)
After the battle of Szolnok (1849), by Maurus Jókai (Jim Locke)
The unlucky weathercock (1849), by Maurus Jókai (Jim Locke)
Kossuth's farewell (1849) (Sonia)
The salt mines of Wieliczka (1850), by Bayard Taylor (ToddHW)
Austria-Hungary Part V: Stories and poems of Bohemia, Hungary, and the Tyrol: Historical note (Tomas Peter)
The dog and the wolf, a Bohemian folk-tale, retold by Theodor Vernaleken (April6090)
The poor man and the king of the crows, a Magyar folk-tale, retold by Jeremiah Curtin (Devorah Allen)
St. Kümmerniss, a legend of the Tyrol (Nemo)
The legend of St. Kümmerniss, by François Joseph Heim (French artist, 1787-1865), painting p. 400 (Nemo)
Stories of the gypsies (April6090)
Two Magyar poems (Foon)
A Csikos race, by Alexander Wagner (Hungarian artist, 1838), painting p. 408 (Alan Mapstone)
The Balkan States: Historical note (Nemo)
Marko and the Turks (fifteenth century), an old Servian ballad (Sonia)
Montenegro, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Alan Mapstone)
An attack on the Bashi-Bazouks (1907), by Arthur D. Howden Smith (Jim Locke)
Herzegovinians returning to a village sacked by the Bashi-Bazouks, by Jaroslav Cermak (Bohemian artist, -1878), painting p. 434 (Nemo)
The siege of Adrianople (1912), by Philip Gibbs (April6090)
The flight from Lule-Burgas (1912), by Bernard Grant (Jim Locke)
Turkey Part I: To the capture of Constantinople: Historical note (Kristine Bekere)
Constantinople, a city built to order (fourth century), by Edward Gibbon (Kristine Bekere)
The coming of the comet (1402), by Maurus Jókai (ToddHW)
Scanderbeg (about 1450), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (cathar maiden)
The fall of Constantinople (1453), by Edward Gibbon (Kristine Bekere)
Turkey Part II: Turkey at the height of her power: Historical note (Kristine Bekere)
The tribute of children, by Anonymous (Tomas Peter)
The little Janizary (about 1453), by James M. Ludlow (Jim Locke)
The surrender of Rhodes (1522), by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (realisticspeakers)
A visit to the wife of Solyman the Magnificent (sixteenth century), translated from a Genoese letter (Sonia)
Dining with the Sultana (1718), by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (April6090)
Turkey Part III: The sick man of Europe: Historical note (Alan Mapstone)
The last of the Janizaries (1826), by Maurus Jókai (realisticspeakers)
The muezzin, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French artist, 1824-1904), painting p. 528 (Alan Mapstone)
''The House of Fear'' (1908), by Francis McCullagh (Jim Locke)
The silent army (1909), by Francis McCullagh (Nemo)
Turkey Part IV: Turkish stories: Historical note (Tomas Peter)
''The lamb bolted'', a legend of Turkish justice (Devorah Allen)
Stories of Nasr-Eddin Hoja (TJ Burns)
A Turkish friendship (eighteenth century), by Cheliby Yorgaki (Jim Locke)
Turkey Part V: Stories of Turkish life and customs: Historical note (Foon)
The first telegraph in Turkey (1854), by Sir J. William Whittall (Alan Mapstone)
Choosing a wife for the son, by Lucy M. J. Garnett (thestorygirl)
''Protestant bread'', by Cyrus Hamlin, D. D. (Foon)
The dancing dervishes, by Julia Pardoe (Devorah Allen)
Ceremony of dervishes at Scutari, by Albert Aublet (French artist, 1851), painting p. 574 (Sonia)
A Turkish ''What for ?'', by Demetra Vaka (Sonia)
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