On the Red Staircase: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
On the Red Staircase by Mary Imlay Taylor: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 30 original MP3 tracks, 6:53:05 running time and a link to listen.
On the Red Staircase, credited to Mary Imlay Taylor, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of On the Red Staircase by Mary Imlay Taylor. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers "“The Czarevitch Ivan is said to be indifferent to the high office,” I replied, in a low tone; “he is blind.” “Ay, and deformed!” said the Russian, promptly. “Yet will the people of Russia demand the recognition of primogeniture. Court intrigues cannot prevail. What a flimsy pretext was this election! The States-General of Russia elected Michael Romanof; the Czar Shuisky fell because he was elected by Moscow alone; and this is not the Moscovite State, but the rabble of the city, and the retainers of the boyars! The Miloslavskys are down to-day, but who dares to predict for to-morrow?”" A fictional account of the turmoil following the death of Czar Alexis, when Russians were forced to choose between the traditional rule of primogeniture, in the form of the deficient Ivan, and his more suitable but younger half-brother, Peter. - Summary by LynneT
Recording facts
- Recording title: On the Red Staircase
- Author credits: Mary Imlay Taylor
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 30
- Listed recording duration: 6:53:05
Catalogue topics
- Russia
- Czar
- succession
- turmoil
Opening tracks: first 24 of 30
- 01 - The Rabble Elect a Czar — 13:53
- 02 - Mademoiselle’s Glove — 16:11
- 03 - The Story of Cain — 14:18
- 04 - The Shadows on the Wall — 11:36
- 05 - Zénaïde — 12:50
- 06 - A Kitchen Feud — 14:15
- 07 - A Czar’s Funeral — 12:58
- 08 - The Assassin — 12:47
- 09 - Sophia Alexeievna — 14:27
- 10 - The Packet — 12:17
- 11 - The Rescue — 12:40
- 12 - Pravezh — 13:40
- 13 - Prince Basil Galitsyn — 12:38
- 14 - Mademoiselle Eudoxie’s Window — 17:08
- 15 - The Flight — 16:27
- 16 - The Audience-Chamber — 13:48
- 17 - The Secret Staircase — 17:09
- 18 - Feodor Sergheievitch Ramodanofsky — 14:15
- 19 - Polotsky — 13:52
- 20 - A Friendly Cup — 15:32
- 21 - The Prisoner — 15:08
- 22 - Baffled — 13:08
- 23 - Homyak — 19:35
- 24 - The Red Staircase — 11:32
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