Ivan the Terrible, Catherine the Great, the Romanovs

The Romanovs by Tel Aviv is a brilliantly well-written book about maybe the most terrifying family in Europe. Unspeakable people. Like vicious, neurotic, interbred, without any sense of their own people's welfare. And each czar and czarina in themselves are grotesque. But if you look great, they're great garb. Great kit. They had great, great kit. Peter the Great was 6'10". Yes. He was also into all sorts of bizarre late night nocturnal activities. That's for another podcast. We forget that Russian people up until 1860, 1870 were serfs. They were slaves. When this comes to revolutions, then they