Alexey Palladin highlights: Catherine the Great rejects King George's request for troops to crush the rebellion; Russia continues trade with the States despite the British blockade; St. Petersburg offers to mediate a settlement between London and Philadelphia; Russia creates a League of Armed Neutrality that demoralizes England's desire to continue to fight
Alexey Palladin uncovers sides of the Wars of 1812 that are almost never discussed. The conflict between the United States and Britain - interconnected with the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte and the strategic decisions of Alexander I of Russia
Alexey Palladin talks about Russia and America in the early 1800s, the Crimean War, Cassius Marcellus Clay as U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Czar Alexander II sending the Russian Navy to protect the Union - and preventing Britain from fighting its 3rd war against America
Why did the Russian Empire sell Alaska to the United States - and not to Britain? Why so cheaply? Free - was an option! The Russian American Company, its business and colonies - and the geo-strategical decisions in favor of the United States. Alexey Palladin explains