Send us a textJoin me as we learn about the construction and history of the Trans-Siberian Railway as well as taking a trip along its 9,289 kilometers or 5,772 miles. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we wrap up the topic of the operations of the Soviet spy agency, the KGB, in Europe and the United States. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we start a two-part series on the spy operations of the Soviet KGB in Europe and the US. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we cover the long, and difficult relationship between Poland and Russia. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we cover the 13 known lovers of Catherine the Great. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we cover the early advisors to Tsar Ivan the Terrible, especially Prince Andrey Kurbsky. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we cover the fighting force known as the Streltsy. They were first formed by Ivan the Terrible in 1550. They would serve as Russia's first standing army and the body guards of the Tsar. Join us as we go over their turbulent, yet short place in Russian history. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we wrap up the two-part series on the Iron Curtain with some surprising outcomes after the barriers were removed. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we will discuss the imposition of the Iron Curtain on the Eastern European countries by the Soviet Union. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we cover the transition of the Soviet Union back into Russia and the other countries which formed the USSR. In it, we will explain why Russia seemingly is frustrated and angry with the Western nations. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we end the series of the transition of life in Russia to that of one in the Soviet Union. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we continue our story of what transpired when Russia became part of the Soviet Union. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textIn the years leading up to the formation of the USSR, Russia went through a period of transition. In this three-part series, we will talk about what that looked like, primarily for the common Russian citizen. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday's episode is part of a feed swap with Lindsay Graham's podcast History Daily. On February 10, 1962., at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union conduct a spy exchange. Learn more about this event. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we finish up our three-part series based on the March 30, 1943 issue of LIFE magazine and how they viewed the USSR and Joseph Stalin. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we continue talking about the March 29, 1943 issue of LIFE magazine and how the US looked at Joseph Stalin and the USSR. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textIn 1943, LIFE magazine published an entire issue on Joseph Stalin and the USSR, as they were allies in our war effort against Nazi Germany and hopefully, Japan. Today, we begin a three-part series on that March issue of LIFE. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we cover the celebration of Christmas and New Year's in Russia both today, and in the past. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we cover the life and extraordinary career of one of the world's and Russia's greatest playwrights, Anton Chekhov. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we being in 1906, the year after the first Russian Revolution, covering the children of Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra. We end, tragically, with the murder of the entire royal family in 1918. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we start a new two-part series covering the children of the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II. We cover their births and the controversy surrounding the girls, and finally a boy, Alexei and the discovery of his genetic disease, hemophilia. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we finish up our two-part series, ending with the final Russo-Turkish War, also known as World War I. It would mark the end of the two empires, which had fought each other for centuries. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we begin a two-part series covering the 12 Russo-Turkish Wars that began in 1568 and ended in 1918. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we finish our three-part series on famous Russian and Soviet writers, with Maxim Gorky. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we discuss the life and times of the great Soviet writer and dissident, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The author of The Gulag Archipelago, went from being a loyal Soviet citizen to one of its harshest critics. Face Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we begin our three-part series on some of the giants of Russian literature, Ivan Bunin, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Maxim Gorky. Listen to the tale of Russia's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Face Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a texttoday we end our series on the development of literature in Russia. Face Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we trace the beginnings of Russian literature all the way to the great authors Dostoyevsky, Chekov and Tolstoy. Face Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we will be talking about the epidemics and plagues that affected Russia throughout the centuries. Within this episode, we will draw a parallel between the COVID-19 outbreak and the Russian flu of 1889-1890. Were they the same? Listen and find out. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we discuss the life of one of Russia's greatest poets, Anna Akhmatova. Join us as we tell her life's story as well as sharing some of her incredible writings.Face Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we recount the sad story of what happened to the Russian elite after the Russian Revolution and the Civil War. Face Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we discuss what happened to the Russian Elite after the Russian Revolution. In particular, we will tell you about what happened to those who left the country. Next episode, we will talk about those sad souls who stayed. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, I discuss the life and times of Catherine the Great with William Clark, host of the Grey History podcast. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we wrap up our series of the year 1917. The Provisional Government goes out with a whimper, and the Bolsheviks walk in, and take control. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textWe begin in May and end with the arrest of General Lavr Kornilov and the freeing of the Bolsheviks from jail in August of the tumultuous year of 1917. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textNicholas II has abdicated, yet there is no clear cut leader of Russia. Find out how things begin to shake out in this new Russia landscape. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we concentrate on the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the days leading up to this momentous event. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we start a five-part series on the most tumultuous year in Russian history, 1917. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we cover the cities of Chirnihiv, Rostov, Halych, Kolmna, Turov, Peryslav, Polotsk, Uglich, and Moscow. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we begin a two-part series on the cities of old Kyvian Rus. It begins in Kyiv, moving on to Novgorod, Pskov, Smolensk, Ryazan, Vladimir, Sundial, and Tver. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we wrap up the series with one of the most emotionally charged episodes in this podcasts history. Survivors and those who didn't make it, wrote in their diaries, some of which I share in this episode. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textThe Germans have now sealed the city of Leningrad, and the starvation and deaths have begun to take their toll on the people of the city. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we cover the progress of the invasion and focus on the people within Leningrad and their growing sense of foreboding. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textThe Siege of Leningrad was one of the greatest tragedies of World War II. It has an eerie similarity to what is going on in Ukraine today. This makes this series, very timely. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday's podcast will give you a background on the leaders of the combatants in the Crimean War. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportSupport the show

Send us a textToday, we finish up the two-part series starting with the victorious Battle of Poltava and ending with the disastrous Battle of Tsushima, one that would begin the destruction of the Romanov dynasty. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, we start a two part series on the battles that molded Russia and its history. We begin today with the Battle of the Kalka River in 1223 and end with Battle of Moscow in 1612. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show

Send us a textToday, I interview Lucy Ward, the author of the soon to be released book The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus.  If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/supportFace Your EarsExplore home recording and music creation with Rich and Justin on 'Face Your Ears'!Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show