320 years ago, the Russian army under the command of Tsar Peter Alekseevich took Narva. The Russian sovereign took revenge on the Swedes for the terrible defeat of 1700...

The successes of aviation in the First World War on land theaters of operations were indisputable. Lieutenant Colonel William Lendrum Mitchell had the opportunity to prove the possibility of using aircraft against ships...

120 years ago, the Japanese army broke through the Russian defenses on the outskirts of Port Arthur and captured the Wolf Mountains. The defense of Port Arthur, the longest battle of the Russo-Japanese War, began...

1813 and 1814: Blücher in the War of the VI anti-French coalition - from Mökern to Paris...

The Holy Alliance combined a conservative world order with liberal ideas that anticipated the twentieth-century concept of a united Europe; Is it possible to revive it under the auspices of Russia at present...

On August 9, 1944, the offensive of Soviet troops in Karelia, which was part of the Vyborg-Petrozavodsk operation, ended. As a result, the Red Army was able to eliminate the threat to Leningrad with...

In 988, the coggs were already there and swimming, as there is a written source about. And then, century after century, coggas were not only built, but also constantly improved, and their design gradually changed....

The origin and early life of Blucher, service in the Swedish army and with Frederick the Great, the first battles against Bonaparte...

A verse that simply rhymes, from the point of view of the skalds, is not yet a verse. Skaldic verse, in their opinion, should have been decorated with means of sound expressiveness, for example, internal rhymes...

310 years ago, on August 7, 1714, the Russian fleet under the command of Apraksin and Tsar Peter in a fierce battle defeated the Swedish squadron at Cape Gangut in the Gulf of Finland. The Gangut victory led to a radical...

The Battle of Chaeronea, the peak of the power of Philip II, preparations for the campaign against Persia and the death of the great king...

Today we are going to get acquainted with the weapons and armor of Greek warriors in their classic version. And these will be both artifacts from a variety of museums, and images of Greek warriors...

The Schleswig-Holstein question was one of the most complex in the history of international relations, and the war of 1864, also known as the Danish War, is one of three European wars in which...

Opinions about Philip II of ancient authors, his difficult relationship with his son Alexander, the last anti-Macedonian coalition...

There were a lot of books in the Middle Ages. Among them were those who commented on the Holy Scripture in order to help believers understand it. There were truly amazing books in this genre...

On August 4, 1774, fighting with the Turkish landing force on the Crimean mountain pass near the village of Shumy, Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail Kutuzov was the first to launch his grenadier battalion into the attack and was seriously wounded in the head...

A new look at the reasons for Afanasy Nikitin’s travel and stay in India...

Today we will get acquainted with the sacramentaries - a special kind of church literature, which was required to be read by all priests who served the mass....

On June 22, 1893, a disaster occurred that completely changed the theory and practice of the fight for the survivability of a ship. From a set of applied skills developed over thousands of years of maritime practice, it has become...

Philip and Olympias, the accession of the hero of the article to the throne, a new phalanx, heytyres, “silver spears” and “a donkey laden with gold”...

Why did Japanese-controlled Manchuria experience a sharp decline in iron and steel production in 1944? So far, even very interesting publications cannot answer this question...

The Crimean War demonstrated the need for reforms in Russia, including in the field of military education, the result of which, however, can hardly be called completely satisfactory...

On July 31, 1954, 70 years ago, the Decree of the Central Committee and the Council of Ministers of the USSR was adopted on the creation of the Northern Test Site on the islands of Novaya Zemlya. The training ground played an important...

The German gas chambers were supposed to leave a photographic and film trail. This trail of murderers can be followed many decades later in order to solve crimes that are still shrouded in mystery...