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Abram Petrovich Hannibal

Abram was Peter the Great's godson - an Ethiopian in 18th Century Russia who rose to become a general in the Russian imperial army.

He was also writer Alexander Pushkin's great-grandfather.

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30 minutes

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project