Episode 15: The Afterlife of a Tsar. The Tale of Fedor Kuzmich

Tales from Imperial Russia
11/01/2022 14 min Temporada 1 Episodio 15
Episode 15: The Afterlife of a Tsar. The Tale of Fedor Kuzmich

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In this episode, we look at the story of the oddly refined peasant wanderer Fedor Kuzmich, who was claimed by many to be the dead tsar Alexander I. The myth and its staying power are rooted in several sources, not least the peculiar circumstances of the emperor's death and popular conceptions of monarchy.
Source
M. P. Rey, Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon (trans. S. Emanuel. DeKalb: NIU Press, 2016)

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