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

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

by Eva March Tappan

English· 16:37:19· 112 chapters
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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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Skirmish between cossacks and the imperial bodyguard, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille, (France 1848), painting, frontispiece

    02:00
  2. Chapter 2

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

    02:38
  3. Chapter 3

    The imp and the crust, by Count Leo Tolstoy

    08:27
  4. Chapter 4

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

    07:20
  5. Chapter 5

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

    15:31
  6. Chapter 6

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

    09:24
  7. Chapter 7

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

    10:56
  8. Chapter 8

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

    02:50
  9. Chapter 9

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

    10:32
  10. Chapter 10

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

    14:46
  11. Chapter 11

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

    23:11
  12. Chapter 12

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

    18:45
  13. Chapter 13

    The kremlin of Moscow, by Bayard Taylor

    17:10
  14. Chapter 14

    Russia Part III: Peter the Great: Historical note

    03:02
  15. Chapter 15

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

    17:08
  16. Chapter 16

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

    04:28
  17. Chapter 17

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

    14:51
  18. Chapter 18

    Russia Part IV: From Catherine the Great to the invasion of Napoleon: Historical note

    02:28
  19. Chapter 19

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

    13:09
  20. Chapter 20

    Borodino (1812), by Alexander Sergeyevitch Pushkin

    05:55
  21. Chapter 21

    The burning of Moscow, by Louis Adolph Thiers

    08:21
  22. Chapter 22

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

    10:01
  23. Chapter 23

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

    02:13
  24. Chapter 24

    Russia Part V: Poland: Historical note

    03:04
  25. Chapter 25

    The surrender of Kamenyetz (1672), by Henryk Sienkiewicz

    20:51
  26. Chapter 26

    Poland or Russia ? (1793), by Jane Porter

    15:37
  27. Chapter 27

    The division of Poland, by Sir Edwin Arnold

    03:29
  28. Chapter 28

    The revolt in Warsaw, 1861, by Joseph Nicholas Robert-Fleury (French painter, 1792-1890), painting p. 158

    02:50
  29. Chapter 29

    Russia Part VI: Siberia: Historical note

    02:12
  30. Chapter 30

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

    24:22
  31. Chapter 31

    Yermak, a folk-song

    03:33
  32. Chapter 32

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

    10:03
  33. Chapter 33

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

    09:04
  34. Chapter 34

    A Kirghis warrior, by Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagin (Russia, 1842-1904), painting p. 186

    02:24
  35. Chapter 35

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

    17:49
  36. Chapter 36

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

    03:20
  37. Chapter 37

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

    10:54
  38. Chapter 38

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

    03:59
  39. Chapter 39

    The taking of the village (an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey), by Vsyevolod Mikhailovitch Garshin

    12:24
  40. Chapter 40

    The capture of a redoubt (an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey), by Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagin

    18:02
  41. Chapter 41

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

    18:24
  42. Chapter 42

    Russia Part VIII: Life in modern Russia: Historical note

    01:58
  43. Chapter 43

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

    09:59
  44. Chapter 44

    A little Jewish girl in Russia, by Mary Antin

    09:26
  45. Chapter 45

    The fair of Nijni-Novgorod, by Edna Dean Proctor

    03:00
  46. Chapter 46

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

    02:40
  47. Chapter 47

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

    07:00
  48. Chapter 48

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

    15:39
  49. Chapter 49

    Stories of Rudolf, founder of the house of Hapsburg (thirteenth century), by William Coxe

    10:34
  50. Chapter 50

    How Naumburg was saved, by Jaroslav Cermak (Bohemian artist, - 1878), painting p. 270

    01:35
  51. Chapter 51

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

    16:36
  52. Chapter 52

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

    04:50
  53. Chapter 53

    The emperor Maximilian receiving the Venetian embassy, by Karl Ludwig Friedrich Becker (German artist, 1820-1900), painting p. 284

    02:48
  54. Chapter 54

    Austria-Hungary Part II: The religious wars of the seventeenth century: Historical note

    02:10
  55. Chapter 55

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

    16:27
  56. Chapter 56

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

    07:19
  57. Chapter 57

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

    14:57
  58. Chapter 58

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

    10:06
  59. Chapter 59

    Austria-Hungary Part III: From Maria Theresa to the downfall of Napoleon: Historical note

    02:59
  60. Chapter 60

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

    11:20
  61. Chapter 61

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

    11:29
  62. Chapter 62

    Hohenlinden (1800), by Thomas Campbell

    02:45
  63. Chapter 63

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

    05:24
  64. Chapter 64

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

    10:38
  65. Chapter 65

    Andreas Hofer rallying the Tyrolean mountaineers, by Franz von Defregger (Austrian painter, 1835), painting p. 344

    02:16
  66. Chapter 66

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

    02:27
  67. Chapter 67

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

    18:25
  68. Chapter 68

    The unlucky weathercock (1849), by Maurus Jókai

    12:22
  69. Chapter 69

    Kossuth's farewell (1849)

    05:57
  70. Chapter 70

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

    12:09
  71. Chapter 71

    Austria-Hungary Part V: Stories and poems of Bohemia, Hungary, and the Tyrol: Historical note

    01:31
  72. Chapter 72

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

    07:29
  73. Chapter 73

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

    21:39
  74. Chapter 74

    St. Kümmerniss, a legend of the Tyrol

    05:39
  75. Chapter 75

    The legend of St. Kümmerniss, by François Joseph Heim (French artist, 1787-1865), painting p. 400

    01:22
  76. Chapter 76

    Stories of the gypsies

    12:42
  77. Chapter 77

    Two Magyar poems

    05:09
  78. Chapter 78

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

    02:02
  79. Chapter 79

    The Balkan States: Historical note

    03:22
  80. Chapter 80

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

    07:21
  81. Chapter 81

    Montenegro, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    02:01
  82. Chapter 82

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

    28:36
  83. Chapter 83

    Herzegovinians returning to a village sacked by the Bashi-Bazouks, by Jaroslav Cermak (Bohemian artist, -1878), painting p. 434

    02:24
  84. Chapter 84

    The siege of Adrianople (1912), by Philip Gibbs

    08:45
  85. Chapter 85

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

    19:07
  86. Chapter 86

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

    03:04
  87. Chapter 87

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

    11:40
  88. Chapter 88

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

    19:16
  89. Chapter 89

    Scanderbeg (about 1450), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    07:29
  90. Chapter 90

    The fall of Constantinople (1453), by Edward Gibbon

    15:51
  91. Chapter 91

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

    02:35
  92. Chapter 92

    The tribute of children, by Anonymous

    06:06
  93. Chapter 93

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

    19:04
  94. Chapter 94

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

    11:28
  95. Chapter 95

    A visit to the wife of Solyman the Magnificent (sixteenth century), translated from a Genoese letter

    03:34
  96. Chapter 96

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

    07:58
  97. Chapter 97

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

    02:31
  98. Chapter 98

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

    19:28
  99. Chapter 99

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

    02:54
  100. Chapter 100

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

    21:19
  101. Chapter 101

    The silent army (1909), by Francis McCullagh

    11:03
  102. Chapter 102

    Turkey Part IV: Turkish stories: Historical note

    01:04
  103. Chapter 103

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

    06:20
  104. Chapter 104

    Stories of Nasr-Eddin Hoja

    06:14
  105. Chapter 105

    A Turkish friendship (eighteenth century), by Cheliby Yorgaki

    09:34
  106. Chapter 106

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

    01:47
  107. Chapter 107

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

    02:32
  108. Chapter 108

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

    04:30
  109. Chapter 109

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

    07:03
  110. Chapter 110

    The dancing dervishes, by Julia Pardoe

    11:18
  111. Chapter 111

    Ceremony of dervishes at Scutari, by Albert Aublet (French artist, 1851), painting p. 574

    01:44
  112. Chapter 112

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

    08:02