Persi Diaconis: Why did Markov invent Markov Chains?

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Persi Diaconis, one of the greatest probabilists of all time, tells the amazing story behind Andrey Markov invention of Markov Chains and the role of the nefarious character Nekrasof (like Microsoft), the "Tsar of Probability" in Soviet Union.
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Markov, the one who invented chains, died in 1922. Chains were invented before the Soviet Union appeared.

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