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

The World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Turkey, credited to Eva March Tappan, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Turkey by Eva March Tappan. Read in English by Sonia; Jim Locke; alanmapstone; Tomas Peter; Colleen McMahon; Kristine Bekere; Nemo; Foon; April6090; tovarisch; Devorah Allen; Sandra Schmit; techpsalti; Monika M. C.; Eva Davis; realisticspeakers; Larry Wilson; ToddHW; TJ Burns; thestorygirl 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

Recording facts

• Recording title: The World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Turkey
• Author credits: Eva March Tappan
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 112
• Listed recording duration: 16:37:19

Catalogue topics

• Hungary
• Wallenstein
• Peter the Great
• Russia
• Siberia
• poland
• kalevala
• czars

Opening tracks: first 24 of 112

1. 001 - Skirmish between cossacks and the imperial bodyguard, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille, (France 1848), painting, frontispiece — 2:00
2. 002 - Russia Part I: Folk-tales and early history: Historical note — 2:38
3. 003 - The imp and the crust, by Count Leo Tolstoy — 8:27
4. 004 - The story of iron and the poison water, from the Kalevala — 7:20
5. 005 - The country and customs of the Scythians (fifth century B.C.), by Herodotus — 15:31
6. 006 - The vengeance of Queen Olga (about 945), from the chronicle of Nestor — 9:24
7. 007 - Vladimir in search of a religion (about 988), by John S. C. Abbott — 10:56
8. 008 - Russia Part II: In the days of Ivan the Terrible: Historical note — 2:50
9. 009 - How Russia was freed from the Tartars (1480), by John S. C. Abbott — 10:32
10. 010 - Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584), by Frances A. Shaw — 14:46
11. 011 - Life at the Setch (fifteenth century), by Nikolai V. Gogol — 23:11
12. 012 - The false Czar (1605), by Frances A. Shaw — 18:45
13. 013 - The kremlin of Moscow, by Bayard Taylor — 17:10
14. 014 - Russia Part III: Peter the Great: Historical note — 3:02
15. 015 - A morning with Peter the Great (early in the eighteenth century), by Dmitri Merejkowski — 17:08
16. 016 - How St. Petersburg was built (1703), by John S. C. Abbott — 4:28
17. 017 - A supposed letter from an English architect (1715), by Maurice Baring — 14:51
18. 018 - Russia Part IV: From Catherine the Great to the invasion of Napoleon: Historical note — 2:28
19. 019 - A day with Catherine the Great (1794), by Adrian Moyseevich Gribovski — 13:09
20. 020 - Borodino (1812), by Alexander Sergeyevitch Pushkin — 5:55
21. 021 - The burning of Moscow, by Louis Adolph Thiers — 8:21
22. 022 - The crossing of the Beresina river (1812), by John S. C. Abbott — 10:01
23. 023 - Passage of the Beresina, by J. H. Van Papendrecht, painting p. 130 — 2:13
24. 024 - Russia Part V: Poland: Historical note — 3:04

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