Book miniatures from medieval manuscripts are the most valuable sources of our knowledge about the Middle Ages. Among them, not only those that are directly devoted to the image are important ...

At the end of the Byzantine Renaissance, Constantinople was again attacked in 1043 by the Rus...

Warwick Castle is located in the city of Warwick and stands on a sandstone cliff at a bend in the River Avon. The place is very convenient, as the river washed away the bank in this place, so here, on the east side, and ...

The First Triumvirate, Caesar's Rubicon and the Battle of Pharsalus...

Today, for the umpteenth time, we will go on a journey through the pages of medieval manuscripts and look at how the illustrators of that time depicted one very important event reflected in...

How the emperor of Manchukuo, captured by the Russians, demilitarized Japan ...

Many pay attention to the paradox: Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov was allegedly the “Quiet” tsar, and the time of his reign was rebellious ...

The Russian army made a strategic Tarutinsky maneuver, seizing the initiative in their own hands. Napoleon called this maneuver a movement that put the French army in a difficult and even...

We again continue our story about medieval castles, however, before dealing with their history or architecture, it makes sense to get acquainted with castles from medieval miniatures and see what ...

470 years ago, the Russian-Tatar regiments of Ivan the Terrible took Kazan. By eliminating the Kazan kingdom, Moscow solved the problem of a constant threat from the east. Russia annexed a significant part of the Volga region and ...

Crop failures at the beginning of the XNUMXth century led to the appearance in Russia of numerous bands of robbers, Khlopko Kosolap was at the head of the largest of them ...

"Special" epics of the Kyiv cycle and unusual epics of Veliky Novgorod...

Why did the Second Reich fail in the war? Why did the Germans, after the conclusion of the Treaty of Versailles, consider themselves deceived by the Americans, and Winston Churchill considered this treaty malicious and stupid ...

The accession to the throne on February 19, 1855, of Emperor Alexander II took place under very dramatic circumstances: military defeats and general dissatisfaction with the old government. But luckily, every...

The storytellers of the northern Russian provinces had little idea of ​​the southern principalities, but attempts are being made to identify the objects of epic geography with real ones ...

We imagine ancient castles and fortresses mainly from textbooks. But in reality, many of them are badly destroyed and do not make a very strong impression. In contrast, the fortress in Kyrenia...

Continuation of a series of articles on the sieges of the capital of Byzantium - Constantinople. About the mysterious "Greek fire", which was used by the Byzantines in the fleet and in the defense of Constantinople...

In Cyprus, the monastery of St. Thekla is known to every Cypriot. On October 7, on St. Thekla's Day, Christians from all over the island rush here. Take a bath at the spring. And they gain healing in it ...

The abolition of Prohibition and the appearance of the German occupation troops in Kyiv coincided, so a joke appeared at that time: “They sold Ukraine for a bottle of schnapps!” The Germans quickly put the separatists in their place...

About the most important instrument of the defense of the capital, washed from three sides by water - the fleet and its ships...

The Russian national liberation war against the Commonwealth was caused by the colonial, parasitic nature of the Polish government. Poland could not digest Russian Ukraine ...

A new beautiful fairy tale, created literally before our eyes, and the real events that served as its basis...

Leaving Kyiv, the Rada fled to Zhytomyr, then to Polissya and further to the front, hoping for the support of the Germans. The Ukrainian “government” has one last hope: “Foreigners will help us, the West is with us!”...

Bodelvidan Castle is one of the last British castles built in the Middle Ages, that is, quite a bit more, and it could have never been born!...