Battle of the Iron Chancellors. Reads Vladislav Vetrov - 10 March 2025, 17:44

Radio version of the historical novel by Valentin Pikul about the history of diplomatic relations of the Russian Empire with the central European powers (the Austrian Empire, the Second French Empire, the Prussian Kingdom, the North German Union, the German Empire, the British Empire, the Italian Kingdom and other countries) during the acute European political crises, wars, revolutions and negotiation processes of the 1850s - 1870s. At the center of the novel is the “battle” of two “iron chancellors”: a diplomatic duel between the state chancellor, the Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire Alexander Gorchakov and the Minister-Chairman of the government of Prussia, the Chancellor of the North German Union, the Reich Chancellor of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck, each of whom seeks to maximize the power of his country and strengthen its political influence in Europe and the world. From the author: Vladislav Vetrov Text read: Boris Plotnikov, Igor Gordin, Andrei Yaroslavtsev, Ilya Ilyin, Igor Marychev, Evgeny Matveev, German Andreev, Irina Telpugova