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The Romanovs and the End of the Time of Troubles
Episode 145 of The Romanov Dynasty podcast picks up where the last episode on the Time of Troubles left off — and goes deeper into the backroom negotiations, foreign meddling, and the fateful election that placed sixteen-year-old Mikhail Romanov on the throne. We follow the story from the expulsion of Polish forces from Moscow in 1612 through the Zemsky Sobor of 1613, examining the roles of figures like Patriarch Filaret (the tsar's kidnapped father), Dmitry Pozharsky, and the ambitious Mikhail Saltykov. We discuss why the Romanovs won over rival claimants — the Golitsyns, the…
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