Some of History's Greatest Imposters

Historically Speaking Podcast by Rebecca Robbins & Kim Kimmel

Jul 28, 202238:06History

There have been many impostors throughout history and in this 48th episode we deal with six of them, two related to English history and four related to Russian history. All at one time or another had many who believed in...

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