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Episodes

Dec. 14, 2023

Episode 72 - Controlled, Isolated and Miserable

This week we’ll be covering the years between 1745 and 1748 and looking at how Peter, Catherine and Elizabeth were all getting along through the events and outcomes related to yet another series of court intrigues and inciden...
Nov. 22, 2023

Episode 71 - Sophie becomes Catherine

In this weeks episode we rejoin the main chronological narrative and take a look at the ups and downs of our key characters during 1744 and 1745.. On the up were the Empress Elizabeth, Sophie of Anhalt Zerbst, Maria Theresa ...
Nov. 8, 2023

Episode 70 - State of Empire, State of Mind

In this episode we take a step back from the goings on at the Russian court and the war of the Austrian Succession and instead take a peek at the overall state of the Russian Empire and the overall state of Eliazabeth’s mind....
Oct. 8, 2023

Episode 69 - Peter and ... Sophie?

It's January 1744 and Peter Fyodorovich the heir to the Russian throne and his aunt Elizabeth have got some German visitors to entertain and one of them is the almost 15 year old Sophie Friederike Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst. In...
Aug. 28, 2023

Episode 68 - The Lopukhina Conspiracy

This weeks episode is centered around the eponymous Lopukhina Conspiracy but who is doing the conspiring and who is being conspired against? Plus events in Sweden are brought to a head, George II, the King of England gets inv...