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This is a reupload of part 2 of our series on Peter the Great, due to a technical issue with the first upload.

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00:00 – The Most Unhinged Gap Year in History Begins
00:31 – A Violent, Brandy-Soaked Tsar in London
01:58 – Peter Takes Power—but Gives It Straight to Mum
03:25 – Peter’s Physical Tics, Epilepsy, and Childhood Trauma
04:38 – The German Suburb and Peter’s Western Fascination
05:45 – General Gordon: The Tsar’s Scottish Mercenary Mentor
06:50 – Franz Lefort and the Boozy, Buxom Barracks Court
07:55 – The Jolly Company: Pranks, Violence, and Vodka
08:50 – Stripped by Bears and Exploded by Bellows
10:15 – The Synod of Fools: Mock Church, Real Power
11:38 – Peter’s Complex Faith: Curious but Devout
12:56 – Mice-Skin Gloves and Sleighs Pulled by Pigs
13:50 – Founding the Russian Navy in Archangel
14:30 – Capturing Azov: Peter’s First Military Triumph
15:00 – A Roman-Style Triumph with Mars and Hercules
15:55 – A Great Embassy to Learn from the West
16:50 – Peter Travels Incognito with 250 Men and 4 Dwarfs
18:10 – Executions, Coffin Desecration, and the Price of Dissent
19:20 – Incognito in Riga: Offended by Swedish Sobriety
21:02 – Bear Fights and Fox Tossing in Prussia
22:30 – Meeting Future British Royals—and Their Corsets
24:00 – Zandam: Peter Joins a Dutch Shipyard as ‘Carpenter Peter’
25:55 – Mobbed by Tourists and Mud-Throwing Kids
27:00 – Amsterdam: Peter’s Shipyard Heaven (with Walls)
28:00 – Dissections, Corpse Biting, and Dutch Anatomy Lessons
29:00 – Why the Dutch Disappoint: No Blueprints?!
29:40 – To England: Peter Asks William for an Invite
30:00 – Arrival in London, Student Digs, and Stinky Beds
31:30 – Crocodiles, Coffins, and Letitia Cross
33:00 – Moving to Deptford—and Trashing the Greatest Garden in England
34:10 – Peter Falls in Love with the Quakers
35:20 – Watching Parliament from a Skylight
36:00 – “It Is Good to Hear Subjects Speak Truthfully to Their King”
36:45 – Putin and Prince Andrew Visit Peter’s Statue
37:20 – Tobacco, Engineers, and Two Barbers: What Peter Took from England
38:20 – “England is the Best, Most Beautiful, and Happiest Place on Earth”
39:00 – Evelyn Returns: The Garden is Destroyed
40:15 – From Fox Tossing to Cabinets of Curiosities in Vienna
41:00 – Mutiny! The Streltsy March on Moscow
42:00 – Peter’s Panic—and His Race Back Across Poland
43:00 – Augustus the Strong and the Art of Fox Tossing
44:50 – The Baltic Pact: The Birth of the Anti-Swede Alliance
46:52 – Return to Moscow and the Great Beard Shaving
48:00 – New Dress Codes, Calendar, and Coinage
50:00 – Divorce by Nunnery: Odoxia Sent Away, Alexis Taken
51:35 – The Streltsy Torture Begins
53:10 – Burnings, Whippings, and Executions by the Tsar Himself
54:30 – Show Trials and the Russian Tradition of Spectacle
55:20 – Corpses Hanged Outside Sophia’s Window
56:10 – Peter Beheads Five Men in Public—With His Own Axe
57:00 – “No More Streltsy”: Absolute Power Secured
57:35 – Endless Feasts, Pipe Crosses, and Dwarf-Packed Pies
58:05 – The Baltic Dream Begins: Peace with the Ottomans
58:58 – August 19, 1700: War is Declared on Sweden

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