220 years ago, the Battle of Trafalgar took place—the decisive battle between Nelson's English fleet and Villeneuve's Franco-Spanish fleet. The battle ended in the complete defeat of the Franco-Spanish fleet...

Funding was such an unusual system of material supply within the Soviet economy that it can hardly be called either distribution or purchase and sale....

120 years ago, Emperor Nicholas II's manifesto "On the Improvement of State Order" was published, establishing a parliament and declaring the granting of political freedoms to Russian citizens...

A. Denikin's origins and military career, including his participation in the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. Denikin after the February Revolution – from his position as commander of the Western Front armies to his arrest on 29...

The Know Nothings staged a series of political, and often downright violent, protests in the United States. Moreover, their protests, amidst anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic protests, turned bloody...

This publication will discuss the history of the Vladivostok Fortress and the surviving artillery batteries, which we visited in September 2025.

With the accession of Alexander III, major changes took place in the army. Under the slogan "Autocracy and Nationality," a period of "simplification" and "Russification" began, which included the introduction of a new uniform—the uniform...

Eighty years ago, Königsberg was incorporated into the USSR. Germany paid for the millions of Soviet lives lost during the Great Patriotic War.

"In its organization and the results of its actions, the attack on August 20 was sudden and stunning" – the raid on the Romanian can be considered one of the pinnacles of the operational-tactical art of Soviet military thought...

370 years ago, Russian troops routed the Polish army at the Battle of Horodok, besieged Lviv, and occupied Lublin. The situation for the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was catastrophic, and the Poles were saved only by the attack of the Crimean Horde.

Description of the emergency on the large anti-submarine ship "Storozhevoy" on November 08-09, 1975. The cause-and-effect relationship between the political views and the unsuccessful officer career of Valery Sablin, which led him to...

220 years ago, Kutuzov led the more than 400-kilometer Ulm-Olmütz march-maneuver and thereby saved the Russian army from destruction or the shame of capitulation....

At reader request, the author continues publishing translations of stories about little-known Soviet agents. This translation of an article originally published in The Guardian, with commentary from the translator, is presented.

About the military operation conducted in March 1980 by the 3rd Battalion of the 350th Guards Airborne Regiment in Afghanistan. The battalion's primary mission was to undermine caravan routes to...

The formalization of the border between the two empires, Russia and China, led to the Russo-Chinese War. However, the Qing Empire had nothing to do with it...

The death throes of White Guard Crimea. The November 1920 evacuation. Russian émigrés in Constantinople. The final years of Wrangel's life...

In the spring of 1854, the Know Nothings won victories in Boston and Salem, Massachusetts, and other New England cities....

One of the components of military victory, as well as the prologue to defeat, is the activity of mobilization structures. We'll examine the consequences of their failures using the examples of the Second and Russian...

Why do we devote so much attention in this series to the uniforms of the troops stationed in the Caucasus and participating in military operations from 1817 to 1864? The point is...

The Sino-Japanese War was the first war between Asian powers to embark on the path of modernization. And it clearly demonstrated that modernization cannot be achieved in a half-hearted manner.

This article describes how the nomadic Hungarians who settled in central Europe operated there. How the formation of the Hungarian state began...

The Austrian high command, having launched an offensive without the support of Russian troops and having senselessly lost an army at Ulm, surrendered not only Vienna but the entire campaign to Napoleon...

Since the start of the Black Sea War, media outlets have regularly reported on the possible deployment of NATO naval squadrons in the Black Sea, including aircraft carriers and missile cruisers, as well as their escort of ships carrying Ukrainian grain. Meanwhile...

In Russia, the classical school system, which nurtured individuality and created a society of equal opportunity, has been destroyed. A transition has been made to a capitalist school system that "produces" consumers.