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The Romanovs and the Time of Troubles
Before the Romanovs, Russia was consumed by the Time of Troubles — a 15-year nightmare of famine, civil war, foreign invasion, and a shocking collapse of the state. This episode traces the chaos: the death of Tsar Feodor I in 1598 ends the Rurikid dynasty; the False Dmitrys, pretenders claiming to be Ivan the Terrible's dead son; the Polish-Lithuanian occupation of Moscow; the siege of the Trinity Lavra; and the unlikely hero, Kuzma Minin, a Nizhny Novgorod butcher who rallied a volunteer army alongside Prince Dmitry Pozharsky. We explore how the Romanovs — specifically Mikhail Romanov…
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