Boring History Stories for Sleep | A Winter at a Siberian Trading Post | 1890s Siberia

How did a Siberian trading post get through a winter, and where did everyone sleep? A boring history story for sleep - relaxing storytelling for adults, softly narrated, with nothing sudden or startling in it. Fall asleep to a Winter at a Siberian Trading Post. A gentle sleep story for grown-ups: 46 minutes of calm history, softly narrated, with nothing sudden or startling in it. No mid-roll ads: we don't place any in these videos. A small Russian fur trading post on a river in the Siberian taiga, in the eighteen nineties. Four people, eight months of winter, one stove, a storehouse full of tea and gunpowder and needles, and a quarrel in February about absolutely nothing. Then the ice goes out and the boat comes back. Chapters: 0:00:00 The Last Barge 0:02:19 The Post 0:04:30 The Four of Them 0:06:43 The River Stops 0:08:17 The Stove 0:10:36 Tea 0:12:58 The Light Goes 0:15:12 What Is In The Storehouse 0:17:30 The Hunters Come In 0:19:43 Sable 0:22:02 The Ledger 0:24:20 The Dogs 0:26:34 The Real Cold 0:28:47 What They Eat 0:30:59 Saturday 0:32:45 Measuring The Winter 0:34:54 February 0:36:54 Nine Days 0:39:20 The Furs Go Out 0:41:35 The Light Comes Back 0:43:12 The Ice Goes Out Sources: James Forsyth, A History of the Peoples of Siberia (1992) Yuri Slezkine, Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North (1994) W. Bruce Lincoln, The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the Russians (1994) Alan Wood, Russia's Frozen Frontier: A History of Siberia and the Russian Far East (2011) Martha Avery, The Tea Road: China and Russia Meet Across the Steppe (2003) The narration is slow and clearly spoken with English captions on, so this also works if you are learning English by listening. The pictures are painted stills that drift slowly - nothing flashes and nothing cuts. If you like long sleep stories, calm history documentaries or bedtime stories for adults, subscribe to Sleepy Story Nights - a new story every week. Original script; artwork and narration produced with AI assistance under human direction.