In March 1553, our country once again found itself at a crossroads, and its history could well have taken some other path...

She was to usher in a golden age in English history. Let's talk briefly about the reign of perhaps the most revered English queen...

There was a period in history when previously built castles were destroyed to the ground, and in their place, at best, only a pile of stones remained, which local residents then took away for their own...

170 years ago, the Tobolsk regiment of Colonel Baumgarten in a fierce battle repelled the attack of an 18-strong Turkish corps at Cetati in Wallachia...

The naval battle of Abukir, after which Bonaparte’s brilliantly begun Egyptian campaign turned into an adventure that did not have the slightest chance of success...

Starting from school, we are accustomed to looking at the Greco-Persian wars through the eyes of the Hellenes, which is hardly both objective and fair; the same Battle of Marathon is perceived by us through the prism...

The history of an armored train, one among many, because of which many rightly call the Civil War of 1918–1922 in Russia the “war of armored trains”!...

Today our story will be about the third woman in the history of the War of the Roses - Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England and wife of King Edward IV of York....

80 years ago the battle for the Dnieper ended. The Red Army liberated the Left Bank, crossed the Dnieper, seizing strategic bridgeheads on the Right Bank and recapturing Kyiv...

The capture of Smolensk became the most important success of Emperor Vasily III in the western direction during all the years of his reign...

Who really were the Vikings? What did the Viking campaign mean to the Scandinavians and what did it represent...

Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign, the capture of Malta and its far-reaching consequences, Nelson's failure to prevent Napoleon's army from landing in Alexandria...

Let's talk only about the personal life of one of the brightest queens of England. Is it true that she remained a virgin and that Ivan the Terrible himself wooed her...

370 years ago, the Zemsky Sobor, headed by Emperor Alexei Mikhailovich, made a historic decision on the reunification of two Russian lands - Great and Little Rus'...

Sometimes a seemingly ordinary event can actually be something big. And sometimes from this ordinary, but something more, someone draws very interesting conclusions. Sometime in 1945, off the coast of Korea...

250 years ago, American colonists staged a pogrom that went down in history as the Boston Tea Party. This was the signal for the War of Independence...

The queen whose reign is called the "Golden Age". But in the article we will look at her life before the coronation - her childhood at the court of her hot-tempered father, her youth and disgrace from Bloody Mary...

190 years ago, the new anthem of the Russian Empire, “God Save the Tsar!” was publicly performed for the first time...

Based on numerous testimonies of “eyewitnesses”, supported by a German archival document, we had complete confidence that “Armenia” lay at the bottom not far from the coast in the Gurzuf area -...

The Russian state was threatened by a war on three fronts. The Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund I started the war with the goal of taking revenge for the defeat in the war of 1500–1503...

Brochs are round defensive structures of the early Iron Age, built using dry masonry technology, that is, without mortar holding the stones together. It is interesting that such structures are typical only for...

When and how Napoleon abandoned his “great army” in Russia...

370 years ago the battle of Zhvanets ended. This was the last major operation of Khmelnitsky's army in the Russian War of Liberation of 1648–1654. The next stage of the confrontation has begun -...

St. George's Day, the Council Code of Alexei Mikhailovich, slavery under Catherine II, attempts at reform by her successors...