Douglas Brunt

It's controlled by the Russian Empire.

And they start passing laws that in school, you have to speak Russian.

So he resents this.

He wants to speak his native Georgian, but he's forced to speak Russian.

So he feels like these teachers, these Russian occupiers,

And very, you know, really ironic given what he becomes as the, you know, the leader of Russia, who later invades Georgia, you know, as the leader of Russia.

So there's a lot of ironic twists to his life, but the common thread is his utter ruthlessness.

underappreciated, you know, not to mispronounce his last name, but he was a noble man.

And when Alfred died, he had rewritten his will to establish the prizes.

You, you of course know the story cause it's, it's in the book.

Um,

And there was a lot of it.

He had 33 million kroner when he passed away.

31 went to the prize.

Two went to a range of relatives who all said, wait a minute, we were expecting about 15 times as much.

Where's all the money going in this prize?

Well, Emmanuel Nobel was the custodian of the will.

And the translation of that in the Russian language is custodian of the soul, which is a role he took seriously.

And so even the king of Sweden was saying, Emmanuel, this prize your uncle wanted to do, he was sort of over-influenced by this pacifist movement.

You really shouldn't do this.