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The Romanovs' Secret Police: From Third Section to Okhrana
In this episode of The Romanov Dynasty, Lucas and Luna explore the shadowy world of imperial Russian political policing — from Nicholas I's Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery, through the Okhrana's sophisticated surveillance and agent provocateurs, to the dark legacy that shaped both the Tsarist state and its revolutionary enemies. They cover the founding of the Third Section under Count Benckendorff, its network of gendarmes and spies, the use of informants like the famous double agent Yevno Azef who led both the Okhrana and the Socialist Revolutionary…
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