"Save, God, from the sword of the Norman and the arrows of the Magyar." These words of prayer, contained in the Modena manuscript, reflect the wave of fear and terror that swept Europe at the end of the eighth and beginning of the ninth ...

Messages from the Soviet Information Bureau were placed every day on the front page of the Pravda newspaper. All other newspapers, including regional, army and factory ones, were obliged to replicate these messages. It...

Yesterday's Republican in the service of Napoleon I, the Bourbons and Louis Philippe ...

It is believed that the plague first appeared in the Gobi Desert in the 1320s. Dispersed throughout Eurasia by Mongol traders and horsemen, she came to China in the 1330s and killed about a quarter ...

Back in 1938, when Soviet archaeologists started excavations on the Middle Volga and found a lot of things. However, their work was seriously interfered with by the war. But ... there would be no happiness ...

The biography of Leonardo da Vinci is amazing and multifaceted. However, before telling it, it is worth considering a little the world in which he lived ...

The Germans, obsessed with a thirst for revenge, were able to break the patterns and stereotypes that prevailed at that time in military affairs. At the beginning of the war, the French, British and Russians fought according to certain schemes, ...

Torture. From primitive to modern "scientific" technologies ...

Let's go back to consider the schemes developed by the General Staff in mid-May 1941. Let's study intelligence materials and some of the events that occurred on June 19 ...

Princely power and self-government of Pskov in the XNUMXth-XNUMXth centuries ...

In the Soviet Union, citizens were imposed on the opinion that corruption is not typical for a socialist society and is inherent only in the bourgeois-capitalist system. In post-perestroika Russia they created ...

The Russian turmoil of 1917 and the subsequent revolutionary events were caused by the split of the Russian elite and the inevitable fall of the monarchical regime ...

During the war years, Turkey has been balancing on the brink of war with the USSR for a long time, almost not hiding it ...

The Yuan Empire was created by the Mongol Khan Kublai in China ...

The 80-day heroic defense of Odessa ended 73 years ago. On October 16, 1941, the last ship left the port with evacuated defenders and civilians. By evening, the advanced Romanian ...

The last hetman of Little Russia (not counting the major general of the EIV suite, who was elected in the 20th century in the circus) was a simple Cossack Kirill Razumovsky, brother of the night emperor of Russia and secret husband of Elizabeth ...

Among the marshals of Napoleon, Oudinot had the greatest number of wounds. For this he received his strange nickname from the soldiers ...

The Great Depression led to economic collapse, social polarization and political instability ....

How the Germans defeated in World War I were able to revolutionize military affairs and create "invincible" armed forces in the 20 years between the two world wars ...

General Chechulin concludes his preface to the memoirs of Colonel Masyuk ...