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From Big Village to Global Power: The Thousand-Year Rise of Moscow, Russia's Fortress Capital

History Unplugged Podcast | American History, World History, World War 2, U.S. Presidents, Civil War by Support

Mar 31, 202656:13Society & Culture

When St. Petersburg nobility mockingly called Moscow a "big village," in the 19th century – a time when they lived in all the excess found in a Tolstoy novel -- they couldn't have imagined the provincial fortress w...

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From Big Village to Global Power: The Thousand-Year Rise of Moscow, Russia's Fortress Capital is an episode from History Unplugged Podcast | American History, World History, World War 2, U.S. Presidents, Civil War by Support. When St. Peter...

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Published Mar 31, 2026, 56:13 long, audio available.