Edward Teach, nicknamed Blackbeard
Historians, writers, artists and directors have dedicated many works to this pirate, making him one of the most recognizable personalities of the era. Books and films dedicated to him continue to be published today...
Why did the Cold War start
Churchill believed that Russia had become a mortal threat to the “free world.” Therefore, it is necessary to create a new front against the Russians, including the remnants of the German armies...
The Great Intrigue of Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès in search of the “sword”: the death of Joubert, Moreau’s refusal, Bonaparte’s consent...
"January Thunder" How the German 18th Army was driven back from Leningrad
80 years ago, on January 14, 1944, the Leningrad-Novgorod strategic operation began. The frozen forests, rivers and swamps near Leningrad were shaken by the first of “Stalin’s ten blows”...
Castle of Expensive Stay
Today we will go to Kirtling Castle, where Queen Elizabeth I stayed as a guest in September 1578 during her tour of Cambridgeshire...
“And the last became first”: how Moscow first tried to subjugate Kazan
Who “took Kazan, took Astrakhan...” even those who skipped history classes will immediately answer. However, the first serious steps towards Kazan’s entry into the Russian orbit were taken by the grandfather of the formidable tsar, Ivan...
Volzhskaya "Sultana"
The Sultana disaster is impressive, but few people know that a very similar disaster happened here on the Volga. And also with the “Mississippi steamship”, or rather, the “Mississippi type steamship”, which...
The moment from which Western Europe began to take shape
Let's take a brief look at the war of the three brothers, the betrayal of their sons and the Treaty of Verdun, which gave European countries their usual shape for hundreds of years...
Russian Guard of the Celestial Empire
The history of Russian prisoners of war who served the Chinese emperors is one of the little-known pages of the past...
How the keffiyeh became a symbol of Palestinian resistance
In the 1980s, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat often appeared on television, wearing the keffiyeh as an integral part of his image. "Arafatka" has become a symbol of Palestinian nationalism, the desire for...
The fate of the condottiere. Bennigsen - a general who did not become a field marshal
Conspirator, intriguer, not the worst commander, hero of Borodino and Leipzig...
The best gunfighters of the Wild West: John Wesley Hardin - a criminal who became a folk hero
John Wesley Hardin was one of the most famous outlaws and marksmen of the American Old West. He killed at least 27 people in gunfights between 1868 and 1877. Who was...
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, "puppeteer" and "chess player" who made Bonaparte First Consul
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès is one of the founding fathers of the French Republic, whom Mirabeau respectfully called “our dear teacher”...
Reunification of Rus': “so that everyone may be one forever”
Exhausted by the difficult and bloody struggle with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, crop failures and epidemics, Little Rus' (Hetmanate, Russian Ukraine, Zaporozhian Army) requested help from fraternal Russia...
Norman weapons and armor at the Battle of Hastings
The Battle of Hastings between the Normans and Saxons was a turning point in the history of England. Let's look at what William the Conqueror's troops were armed with...
Castle of the Immortal Highlanders
Dunvegan Castle is located on the island of Cy in the Hebridean archipelago and still belongs to the legendary clan MacLeod. Those same “immortal” MacLeods that were talked about in the popular...
How Konev's armies liberated Kirovograd
80 years ago, the troops of the 2nd Ukrainian Front, Marshal Konev, carried out the Kirovograd offensive operation. Soviet troops liberated Kirovograd, the regional and industrial center of Central Ukraine,...
Porfirio Diaz: how a democrat became a dictator and led the country to revolution
This ruler came to power under democratic slogans, but quite quickly the love of power outweighed his former beliefs. When he could not be re-elected for the next term, he replaced...
The insidious and loving Empress Messalina
Valeria Messalina was the wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most famous women of the Ancient World. Her story is ambiguous due to the sources, but we will still try to study the short but colorful life of the empress...
Trafalgar naval battle
The Trafalgar naval battle, one of the four greatest in world history, England lost its best admiral, and France lost its fleet and hope of remaining a great naval power...
England and France on the way to Trafalgar
Pierre-Charles de Villeneuve and Horatio Nelson after the Battle of Abukir and before Trafalgar...
How did the witch trials go?
You all probably know about the witch hunts that in the Middle Ages tens of thousands of innocent girls and women were burned on suspicion of witchcraft. In this article we will examine in detail the story of the “witch” Isabel...
The first “victor of the invincible” – cavalry general Bennigsen
At the head of the Russian army, he was the first to survive the battle with Napoleon's army...
The invasion of the Crimean-Kazan horde saved Lithuania from complete defeat
Due to the large-scale invasion of the Crimean-Kazan horde, which broke through to Moscow, Vasily III agreed to a truce, abandoning most of his claims to Lithuania - demands to give...