About one of the little-known wars of the 17th century...

Petra is an ancient city that has survived to this day...

80 years ago, the British and Americans used airborne divisions to carry out Operation Hollandia to pave the way into Germany...

How did Moscow prepare for the campaign against Kazan in 1550, what goals did it set, how many forces and weapons was it able to gather?...

During the uprising of Stepan Razin, the peasant widow Alena from the village of Vyezdnaya Sloboda, near Arzamas, who had gone to a monastery and taken monastic vows, left the monastery and became one of the leaders...

Darius III traditionally remains in the shadow of his great opponent Alexander and is only a secondary character in stories about him, a tradition established by ancient authors...

170 years ago, the famous heroic 349-day defense of Sevastopol began. The "Russian Troy" will break the enemy's plans for the complete defeat of Russia...

Hitler lied a lot and daringly. However, an analysis of his lies allows us to get to his real plans, which he was afraid to entrust to paper...

On April 9, 1945, Königsberg, the coronation site of the Prussian kings, was captured in a masterful assault. During the four-day battle, the Red Army lost more than 9 people killed here....

What did Greek hoplites wear and fight with in the so-called "classical era"...

170 years ago, the Russian army suffered its first major defeat in the Crimean War on the Alma River. The expeditionary army of England, France and Turkey opened the way to Sevastopol...

In 1547, Ivan IV shouldered the heavy burden of royal service, which he possibly viewed from a sacred point of view, onto his still weak shoulders...

Striving for the heavens, people began to conduct their religious cults on high ground, and where there were none, they began to build semblances of mountains and hills. In ancient Mesopotamia, these were...

240 years ago Grigory Shelikhov founded the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska. He decided to expand Russian possessions on the northwestern coast of America from the Bering Strait to California....

The fifth king of the Achaemenid Empire received flattering reviews from authors of other nations, which does not happen often...

All our ancestors, including the Neanderthals, and even their ancestors, warmed themselves by the fire. But when people began to settle in permanent dwellings, the fire turned into a hearth, which later...

The Allied command planned to quickly liberate France and begin an invasion of Germany. Ahead of the Russians...

On the night of February 9, 1904, the 1st Detachment of Destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy approached the outer roadstead of the Russian fortress of Port Arthur. The abundance of targets made the eyes of the Japanese commanders...

85 years ago, the USSR gained the upper hand in the conflict at Khalkhin Gol. Japan abandoned its expansion in the north, where the US and Britain were pushing it, and turned south...

This is the story of how one coup d'état set in motion a chain of events that ultimately led to the collapse of one great empire and the gradual decline of another...

In World War I, the percentage of wounded returning to duty in Russia was no more than 50 percent. In World War II, it was already about 70 percent. This is largely due to the discovery made by Alexander...

Almost the entire early history of Greece is a continuous movement of different tribes from one territory to another. First of all, this is a large-scale migration of tribes in the "Dark Ages", caused by such...

Have you ever thought about the fact that a trench for a rifle squad costs more than the entire pay of that squad for more than a year of service...

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth relied on cavalry in military terms for a number of reasons. It wasn't that there was no infantry there, but there was frankly little of it, and its quality was more than mediocre. But there were species...