Аудиокнига: World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Turkey
World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Turkey
1 - Skirmish between cossacks and the imperial bodyguard, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille, (France 1848), painting, frontispiece
- Download Skirmish between cossacks and the imperial bodyguard, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille, (France 1848), painting, frontispiece audio
- Download Russia Part I: Folk-tales and early history: Historical note audio
- Download The imp and the crust, by Count Leo Tolstoy audio
- Download The story of iron and the poison water, from the Kalevala audio
- Download The country and customs of the Scythians (fifth century B.C.), by Herodotus audio
- Download The vengeance of Queen Olga (about 945), from the chronicle of Nestor audio
- Download Vladimir in search of a religion (about 988), by John S. C. Abbott audio
- Download Russia Part II: In the days of Ivan the Terrible: Historical note audio
- Download How Russia was freed from the Tartars (1480), by John S. C. Abbott audio
- Download Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584), by Frances A. Shaw audio
- Download Life at the Setch (fifteenth century), by Nikolai V. Gogol audio
- Download The false Czar (1605), by Frances A. Shaw audio
- Download The kremlin of Moscow, by Bayard Taylor audio
- Download Russia Part III: Peter the Great: Historical note audio
- Download A morning with Peter the Great (early in the eighteenth century), by Dmitri Merejkowski audio
- Download How St. Petersburg was built (1703), by John S. C. Abbott audio
- Download A supposed letter from an English architect (1715), by Maurice Baring audio
- Download Russia Part IV: From Catherine the Great to the invasion of Napoleon: Historical note audio
- Download A day with Catherine the Great (1794), by Adrian Moyseevich Gribovski audio
- Download Borodino (1812), by Alexander Sergeyevitch Pushkin audio
- Download The burning of Moscow, by Louis Adolph Thiers audio
- Download The crossing of the Beresina river (1812), by John S. C. Abbott audio
- Download Passage of the Beresina, by J. H. Van Papendrecht, painting p. 130 audio
- Download Russia Part V: Poland: Historical note audio
- Download The surrender of Kamenyetz (1672), by Henryk Sienkiewicz audio
- Download Poland or Russia ? (1793), by Jane Porter audio
- Download The division of Poland, by Sir Edwin Arnold audio
- Download The revolt in Warsaw, 1861, by Joseph Nicholas Robert-Fleury (French painter, 1792-1890), painting p. 158 audio
- Download Russia Part VI: Siberia: Historical note audio
- Download The conquest of Siberia (1579-1584), by Count Leo Tolstoy audio
- Download Yermak, a folk-song audio
- Download How pardon was won for an exile (1808), by Madame Sophie Risteau Cottin audio
- Download On the march to Siberia (nineteenth century), by Baroness M. De Packh audio
- Download A Kirghis warrior, by Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagin (Russia, 1842-1904), painting p. 186 audio
- Download In a Tartar tent (about 1909), by Lindon Bates, Jr. audio
- Download Russia Part VII: A coronation and three wars: Historical note audio
- Download The coronation of Alexander II (1855), by Count von Moltke audio
- Download The emancipation of the serfs (1861), by Hezekiah Butterworth audio
- Download The taking of the village (an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey), by Vsyevolod Mikhailovitch Garshin audio
- Download The capture of a redoubt (an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey), by Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagin audio
- Download Coaling at sea (1905), by Commander Vladimir Semenoff, of the Imperial Russian Navy audio
- Download Russia Part VIII: Life in modern Russia: Historical note audio
- Download The races on the Neva river (1870), by Théophile Gautier audio
- Download A little Jewish girl in Russia, by Mary Antin audio
- Download The fair of Nijni-Novgorod, by Edna Dean Proctor audio
- Download Austria-Hungary Part I: From the Tartar invasion to the Reformation: Historical note audio
- Download The coming of the Tartars (1240), by Louis Felbermann audio
- Download How Rudolf the First became Emperor (1273), by John S. C. Abbott audio
- Download Stories of Rudolf, founder of the house of Hapsburg (thirteenth century), by William Coxe audio
- Download How Naumburg was saved, by Jaroslav Cermak (Bohemian artist, - 1878), painting p. 270 audio
- Download The deliverance of Prague (1420), by E. H. Gillett audio
- Download A funeral menu of the sixteenth century (1509), from the old chronicles audio
- Download The emperor Maximilian receiving the Venetian embassy, by Karl Ludwig Friedrich Becker (German artist, 1820-1900), painting p. 284 audio
- Download Austria-Hungary Part II: The religious wars of the seventeenth century: Historical note audio
- Download The devastation of St. Vitus's church (1619-1620), by Marie Hay audio
- Download Wallenstein, the deposed general (1630), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller audio
- Download Wallenstein and the cuirassiers (1634), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller audio
- Download How John Sobieski saved Vienna from the Turks (1683), by John S. C. Abbott audio
- Download Austria-Hungary Part III: From Maria Theresa to the downfall of Napoleon: Historical note audio
- Download How Maria Theresa of Austria became King (1740), by John S. C. Abbott audio
- Download The command of Maria Theresa, by John S. C. Abbott audio
- Download Hohenlinden (1800), by Thomas Campbell audio
- Download The battle of Austerlitz (1805), by John S. C. Abbott audio
- Download How the French honored Joseph Haydn (1805), by ''Louisa Mühlbach'' (Klara M. Mundt) audio
- Download Andreas Hofer rallying the Tyrolean mountaineers, by Franz von Defregger (Austrian painter, 1835), painting p. 344 audio
- Download Austria-Hungary Part IV: The nineteenth century: Historical note audio
- Download After the battle of Szolnok (1849), by Maurus Jókai audio
- Download The unlucky weathercock (1849), by Maurus Jókai audio
- Download Kossuth's farewell (1849) audio
- Download The salt mines of Wieliczka (1850), by Bayard Taylor audio
- Download Austria-Hungary Part V: Stories and poems of Bohemia, Hungary, and the Tyrol: Historical note audio
- Download The dog and the wolf, a Bohemian folk-tale, retold by Theodor Vernaleken audio
- Download The poor man and the king of the crows, a Magyar folk-tale, retold by Jeremiah Curtin audio
- Download St. Kümmerniss, a legend of the Tyrol audio
- Download The legend of St. Kümmerniss, by François Joseph Heim (French artist, 1787-1865), painting p. 400 audio
- Download Stories of the gypsies audio
- Download Two Magyar poems audio
- Download A Csikos race, by Alexander Wagner (Hungarian artist, 1838), painting p. 408 audio
- Download The Balkan States: Historical note audio
- Download Marko and the Turks (fifteenth century), an old Servian ballad audio
- Download Montenegro, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson audio
- Download An attack on the Bashi-Bazouks (1907), by Arthur D. Howden Smith audio
- Download Herzegovinians returning to a village sacked by the Bashi-Bazouks, by Jaroslav Cermak (Bohemian artist, -1878), painting p. 434 audio
- Download The siege of Adrianople (1912), by Philip Gibbs audio
- Download The flight from Lule-Burgas (1912), by Bernard Grant audio
- Download Turkey Part I: To the capture of Constantinople: Historical note audio
- Download Constantinople, a city built to order (fourth century), by Edward Gibbon audio
- Download The coming of the comet (1402), by Maurus Jókai audio
- Download Scanderbeg (about 1450), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow audio
- Download The fall of Constantinople (1453), by Edward Gibbon audio
- Download Turkey Part II: Turkey at the height of her power: Historical note audio
- Download The tribute of children, by Anonymous audio
- Download The little Janizary (about 1453), by James M. Ludlow audio
- Download The surrender of Rhodes (1522), by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine audio
- Download A visit to the wife of Solyman the Magnificent (sixteenth century), translated from a Genoese letter audio
- Download Dining with the Sultana (1718), by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu audio
- Download Turkey Part III: The sick man of Europe: Historical note audio
- Download The last of the Janizaries (1826), by Maurus Jókai audio
- Download The muezzin, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French artist, 1824-1904), painting p. 528 audio
- Download ''The House of Fear'' (1908), by Francis McCullagh audio
- Download The silent army (1909), by Francis McCullagh audio
- Download Turkey Part IV: Turkish stories: Historical note audio
- Download ''The lamb bolted'', a legend of Turkish justice audio
- Download Stories of Nasr-Eddin Hoja audio
- Download A Turkish friendship (eighteenth century), by Cheliby Yorgaki audio
- Download Turkey Part V: Stories of Turkish life and customs: Historical note audio
- Download The first telegraph in Turkey (1854), by Sir J. William Whittall audio
- Download Choosing a wife for the son, by Lucy M. J. Garnett audio
- Download ''Protestant bread'', by Cyrus Hamlin, D. D. audio
- Download The dancing dervishes, by Julia Pardoe audio
- Download Ceremony of dervishes at Scutari, by Albert Aublet (French artist, 1851), painting p. 574 audio
- Download A Turkish ''What for ?'', by Demetra Vaka audio
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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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