Crash, Bank, Wallop: the fall of the House of Tepper

Warsaw, 1793: banking crashes, tariff wars, a king drowning in debt, and a city dancing towards disaster.

In this episode, Jan Darasz pulls back the velvet curtain on Enlightenment Warsaw to reveal how the rich lived, borrowed, and crashed – taking a kingdom down with them. And at the centre of it all? A falling star, Piotr Tepper – the richest man in Warsaw, and the first domino to fall.

From counterfeit coins and spiralling debt to foxhunts, diamonds, and downfall – this is the forgotten financial crisis that helped bring down a kingdom.