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World's Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Turkey

This is the sixth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world's history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Topics in Part VI include the Russian Empire, the fights for independence in Hungary and the Balkan states and the politics of early Turkey. - Summary by Sonia

Cast list for Wallenstein and the cuirassiers:
Terzky: alanmapstone / Wallenstein: Foon / Anspessade: Tomas Peter / Second Cuirassier: Eva Davis / Third Cuirassier: Monika M.C. / Butler: Nemo / Narrator: Sonia

Year of Publication: 1914Genres: War & Military Fiction , War & Military , History , Historical Fiction , Political Science

Running Time: 16 hours 37 minutes 19 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	Skirmish between cossacks and the imperial bodyguard, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille, (France 1848), painting, frontispiece Sonia	2:00
2	Russia Part I: Folk-tales and early history: Historical note Sonia	2:38
3	The imp and the crust, by Count Leo Tolstoy Sonia	8:27
4	The story of iron and the poison water, from the Kalevala Sonia	7:20
5	The country and customs of the Scythians (fifth century B.C.), by Herodotus Sonia	15:31
6	The vengeance of Queen Olga (about 945), from the chronicle of Nestor Jim Locke	9:24
7	Vladimir in search of a religion (about 988), by John S. C. Abbott Jim Locke	10:56
8	Russia Part II: In the days of Ivan the Terrible: Historical note Alan Mapstone	2:50
9	How Russia was freed from the Tartars (1480), by John S. C. Abbott Jim Locke	10:32
10	Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584), by Frances A. Shaw Jim Locke	14:46
11	Life at the Setch (fifteenth century), by Nikolai V. Gogol Jim Locke	23:11
12	The false Czar (1605), by Frances A. Shaw Jim Locke	18:45
13	The kremlin of Moscow, by Bayard Taylor Jim Locke	17:10
14	Russia Part III: Peter the Great: Historical note Alan Mapstone	3:02
15	A morning with Peter the Great (early in the eighteenth century), by Dmitri Merejkowski Jim Locke	17:08
16	How St. Petersburg was built (1703), by John S. C. Abbott Tomas Peter	4:28
17	A supposed letter from an English architect (1715), by Maurice Baring Colleen McMahon	14:51
18	Russia Part IV: From Catherine the Great to the invasion of Napoleon: Historical note Kristine Bekere	2:28
19	A day with Catherine the Great (1794), by Adrian Moyseevich Gribovski Kristine Bekere	13:09
20	Borodino (1812), by Alexander Sergeyevitch Pushkin Nemo	5:55
21	The burning of Moscow, by Louis Adolph Thiers Colleen McMahon	8:21
22	The crossing of the Beresina river (1812), by John S. C. Abbott Colleen McMahon	10:01
23	Passage of the Beresina, by J. H. Van Papendrecht, painting p. 130 Tomas Peter	2:13
24	Russia Part V: Poland: Historical note Foon	3:04
25	The surrender of Kamenyetz (1672), by Henryk Sienkiewicz Jim Locke	20:51
26	Poland or Russia ? (1793), by Jane Porter April6090	15:37
27	The division of Poland, by Sir Edwin Arnold Alan Mapstone	3:29
28	The revolt in Warsaw, 1861, by Joseph Nicholas Robert-Fleury (French painter, 1792-1890), painting p. 158 Foon	2:50
29	Russia Part VI: Siberia: Historical note Tomas Peter	2:12
30	The conquest of Siberia (1579-1584), by Count Leo Tolstoy tovarisch	24:22
31	Yermak, a folk-song Tomas Peter	3:33
32	How pardon was won for an exile (1808), by Madame Sophie Risteau Cottin Devorah Allen	10:03
33	On the march to Siberia (nineteenth century), by Baroness M. De Packh April6090	9:04
34	A Kirghis warrior, by Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagin (Russia, 1842-1904), painting p. 186 cathar maiden	2:24
35	In a Tartar tent (about 1909), by Lindon Bates, Jr. Colleen McMahon	17:49
36	Russia Part VII: A coronation and three wars: Historical note Foon	3:20
37	The coronation of Alexander II (1855), by Count von Moltke Colleen McMahon	10:54
38	The emancipation of the serfs (1861), by Hezekiah Butterworth cathar maiden	3:59
39	The taking of the village (an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey), by Vsyevolod Mikhailovitch Garshin tovarisch	12:24
40	The capture of a redoubt (an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey), by Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagin tovarisch	18:02
41	Coaling at sea (1905), by Commander Vladimir Semenoff, of the Imperial Russian Navy tovarisch	18:24
42	Russia Part VIII: Life in modern Russia: Historical note Tomas Peter	1:58
43	The races on the Neva river (1870), by Théophile Gautier techpsalti	9:59
44	A little Jewish girl in Russia, by Mary Antin April6090	9:26
45	The fair of Nijni-Novgorod, by Edna Dean Proctor Alan Mapstone	3:00
46	Austria-Hungary Part I: From the Tartar invasion to the Reformation: Historical note Availle	2:40
47	The coming of the Tartars (1240), by Louis Felbermann Jim Locke	7:00
48	How Rudolf the First became Emperor (1273), by John S. C. Abbott Jim Locke	15:39
49	Stories of Rudolf, founder of the house of Hapsburg (thirteenth century), by William Coxe Jim Locke	10:34
50	How Naumburg was saved, by Jaroslav Cermak (Bohemian artist, - 1878), painting p. 270 Foon	1:35
51	The deliverance of Prague (1420), by E. H. Gillett Colleen McMahon	16:36
52	A funeral menu of the sixteenth century (1509), from the old chronicles Nemo	4:50
53	The emperor Maximilian receiving the Venetian embassy, by Karl Ludwig Friedrich Becker (German artist, 1820-1900), painting p. 284 Nemo	2:48
54	Austria-Hungary Part II: The religious wars of the seventeenth century: Historical note Availle	2:10
55	The devastation of St. Vitus's church (1619-1620), by Marie Hay Colleen McMahon	16:27
56	Wallenstein, the deposed general (1630), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Sonia	7:19
57	Wallenstein and the cuirassiers (1634), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Alan Mapstone	14:57
58	How John Sobieski saved Vienna from the Turks (1683), by John S. C. Abbott realisticspeakers	10:06
59	Austria-Hungary Part III: From Maria Theresa to the downfall of Napoleon: Historical note Availle	2:59
60	How Maria Theresa of Austria became King (1740), by John S. C. Abbott April6090	11:20
61	The command of Maria Theresa, by John S. C. Abbott Larry Wilson	11:29
62	Hohenlinden (1800), by Thomas Campbell Monika M. C.	2:45
63	The battle of Austerlitz (1805), by John S. C. Abbott Tomas Peter	5:24
64	How the French honored Joseph Haydn (1805), by ''Louisa Mühlbach'' (Klara M. Mundt) Nemo	10:38
65	Andreas Hofer rallying the Tyrolean mountaineers, by Franz von Defregger (Austrian painter, 1835), painting p. 344 Monika M. C.	2:16
66	Austria-Hungary Part IV: The nineteenth century: Historical note Availle	2:27
67	After the battle of Szolnok (1849), by Maurus Jókai Jim Locke	18:25
68	The unlucky weathercock (1849), by Maurus Jókai Jim Locke	12:22
69	Kossuth's farewell (1849) Sonia	5:57
70	The salt mines of Wieliczka (1850), by Bayard Taylor ToddHW	12:09
71	Austria-Hungary Part V: Stories and poems of Bohemia, Hungary, and the Tyrol: Historical note Tomas Peter	1:31
72	The dog and the wolf, a Bohemian folk-tale, retold by Theodor Vernaleken April6090	7:29
73	The poor man and the king of the crows, a Magyar folk-tale, retold by Jeremiah Curtin Devorah Allen	21:39
74	St. Kümmerniss, a legend of the Tyrol Nemo	5:39
75	The legend of St. Kümmerniss, by François Joseph Heim (French artist, 1787-1865), painting p. 400 Nemo	1:22
76	Stories of the gypsies April6090	12:42
77	Two Magyar poems Foon	5:09
78	A Csikos race, by Alexander Wagner (Hungarian artist, 1838), painting p. 408 Alan Mapstone	2:02
79	The Balkan States: Historical note Nemo	3:22
80	Marko and the Turks (fifteenth century), an old Servian ballad Sonia	7:21
81	Montenegro, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alan Mapstone	2:01
82	An attack on the Bashi-Bazouks (1907), by Arthur D. Howden Smith Jim Locke	28:36
83	Herzegovinians returning to a village sacked by the Bashi-Bazouks, by Jaroslav Cermak (Bohemian artist, -1878), painting p. 434 Nemo	2:24
84	The siege of Adrianople (1912), by Philip Gibbs April6090	8:45
85	The flight from Lule-Burgas (1912), by Bernard Grant Jim Locke	19:07
86	Turkey Part I: To the capture of Constantinople: Historical note Kristine Bekere	3:04
87	Constantinople, a city built to order (fourth century), by Edward Gibbon Kristine Bekere	11:40
88	The coming of the comet (1402), by Maurus Jókai ToddHW	19:16
89	Scanderbeg (about 1450), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow cathar maiden	7:29
90	The fall of Constantinople (1453), by Edward Gibbon Kristine Bekere	15:51
91	Turkey Part II: Turkey at the height of her power: Historical note Kristine Bekere	2:35
92	The tribute of children, by Anonymous Tomas Peter	6:06
93	The little Janizary (about 1453), by James M. Ludlow Jim Locke	19:04
94	The surrender of Rhodes (1522), by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine realisticspeakers	11:28
95	A visit to the wife of Solyman the Magnificent (sixteenth century), translated from a Genoese letter Sonia	3:34
96	Dining with the Sultana (1718), by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu April6090	7:58
97	Turkey Part III: The sick man of Europe: Historical note Alan Mapstone	2:31
98	The last of the Janizaries (1826), by Maurus Jókai realisticspeakers	19:28
99	The muezzin, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French artist, 1824-1904), painting p. 528 Alan Mapstone	2:54
100	''The House of Fear'' (1908), by Francis McCullagh Jim Locke	21:19
101	The silent army (1909), by Francis McCullagh Nemo	11:03
102	Turkey Part IV: Turkish stories: Historical note Tomas Peter	1:04
103	''The lamb bolted'', a legend of Turkish justice Devorah Allen	6:20
104	Stories of Nasr-Eddin Hoja TJ Burns	6:14
105	A Turkish friendship (eighteenth century), by Cheliby Yorgaki Jim Locke	9:34
106	Turkey Part V: Stories of Turkish life and customs: Historical note Foon	1:47
107	The first telegraph in Turkey (1854), by Sir J. William Whittall Alan Mapstone	2:32
108	Choosing a wife for the son, by Lucy M. J. Garnett thestorygirl	4:30
109	''Protestant bread'', by Cyrus Hamlin, D. D. Foon	7:03
110	The dancing dervishes, by Julia Pardoe Devorah Allen	11:18
111	Ceremony of dervishes at Scutari, by Albert Aublet (French artist, 1851), painting p. 574 Sonia	1:44
112	A Turkish ''What for ?'', by Demetra Vaka Sonia	8:02