Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of the Beneath the Red Star podcast. Today we have the first part of an impromptu 2 parter. Today's episode will be on the Pale of Settlement which is the region of the Russian Empire in which the Jews who lived in the empire were forced into. This week we will discuss the history of how the Pale came to be and the legal justifications behind that.

Sources:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvbkk0gx.6

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4467338

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv75d7p9.6

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctvrzgvqk.17

https://www.britannica.com/topic/pale-restricted-area https://www.jstor.org/stable/20171196 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/jews-in-england-1290/#:~:text=On%2018th%20July%201290%2C%20Edward,November%20to%20leave%20the%20realm https://www.census.gov/popclock/world/pl

https://www.census.gov/popclock/world/up

Welcome back to a very special episode of the Beneath the Red Star podcast where I accidentally take a week off. Oops. Sorry about that. But good news. Today we have an episode on the House of Faberge and on the eggs that Faberge made for the Tsar. If you like jewelry, gems, gold, chickens or eggs then you are gonna love this.

Sources:

The History Behind the Ukrainian Tradition of Decorating Pysanky Easter Eggs: https://time.com/6166140/pysanka-ukraine-easter-egg-history/

Pysanky / Писанки: https://crees.ku.edu/pysanky

The Pysanka, a Symbol of Hope: https://pysanka.ukrainianinstitute.org/

Fabberge Egg: https://www.britannica.com/art/Faberge-egg

Faberge.com: https://www.faberge.com/

Faberge Eggs: https://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/a_nav/faberge_nav/main_fabfrm.html

Do you like lakes? Do you like protests movements? If you answered yes to one or either of those then, great! Boy do I have an episode for you! Tune in today as we will be discussing the Baikal Movement, a grassroots environmental movement from the USSR and how they have for the past 60+ years fought to keep one of the world's greatest natural treasures safe.

Sources:

At the Watershed: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.93.1.0147?read-now=1&seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents

Cleaning up Baikal: https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1980-2/cleaning-up-baikal/

Lake Baikal: https://www.britannica.com/place/Lake-Baikal

Lake Baikal: https://academic.oup.com/book/3365/chapter-abstract/144449420?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Lake Baikal: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/754/#:~:text=Situated%20in%20south%2Deast%20Siberia,world's%20total%20unfrozen%20freshwater%20reserve.

Russian Natural Resources’ Sphere: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10108780/

Siberian Writers and the Struggle to Save Lake Baikal: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3984667

The Ten Largest Lakes in the World: https://www.statista.com/statistics/262931/the-ten-largest-lakes-in-the-world/

The Baikal Movement: https://www.icwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/EA-19.pdf

The battle Over Lake Baikal: https://www.dw.com/en/reopening-of-lake-baikal-paper-mill-triggers-environmental-fury/a-5242634

If you are into the Wild West then you are probably pretty familiar with how the West symbolizes American culture and American expansion. Well, what if I told you that America, or Italy for that matter, wasn't the only country that found a cultural importance in the image of the ten gallon hat wearing, pistol toting, spur studded cow-poke? Mosey on down and have you a listen as I jaw on about how them communists in the Soviet Union rustled up a love for the cowboy that can only be matched by the USA.

Sources:

There aren't really any sources for this one. This is mostly from a lecture that I received in college.

Welcome to the final episode on the life of Grigori Rasputin. In this episode we will be discussing Rasputin's unceremonious demise and the man who killed him.

Sources:

“Grigory Rasputin”: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Grigory-Yefimovich-Rasputin

“Starets”: https://www.britannica.com/topic/starets

“The Assassination of Rasputin”: https://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/news/the-assassination-of-rasputin/

“The Murder of Rasputin “: https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2020/10/the-murder-of-rasputin/

“The Murder of Rasputin “: https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/murder-rasputin/

“Biographies- Prince Yusupov”: https://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/Felix.php

Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs by Douglas Smith

Join me today in the third episode about the life and times of Grigory Rasputin. In this episode we will be discussing Rasputin's standing in Russian society as the 1st decade of the 1900s comes to and end and we finally answer the question, was Rasputin a khlyst?

Sources:

“Grigory Rasputin”: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Grigory-Yefimovich-Rasputin

“Starets”: https://www.britannica.com/topic/starets

“The Assassination of Rasputin”: https://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/news/the-assassination-of-rasputin/

“The Murder of Rasputin “: https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2020/10/the-murder-of-rasputin/

“The Murder of Rasputin “: https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/murder-rasputin/

Rasputin: Faith, Power and the Twilight of the Romanovs By Douglas Smith

Hello and welcome to the first episode on the life and times of Grigori Rasputin! Join me and learn about Rasputin's childhood and his early days as a holy man wandering the Russian wilderness.

Sources (these are the sources for the entire series):

“Grigory Rasputin”: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Grigory-Yefimovich-Rasputin

“Starets”: https://www.britannica.com/topic/starets

“The Assassination of Rasputin”: https://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/news/the-assassination-of-rasputin/

“The Murder of Rasputin “: https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2020/10/the-murder-of-rasputin/

“The Murder of Rasputin “: https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/murder-rasputin/

Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs

By Douglas Smith