Fyodor Shaklovity was the most loyal supporter of Princess Sophia; it was he, according to Prince Kurakin, who "made a great profit in the Cupid under Sophia."

This whole story is so extraordinary that it's hard to take it at face value. It's a truly stunning intelligence breakthrough in the entire history of the Cold War, even though it happened...

On April 5, 1242, on the ice of Lake Peipus, a twenty-year-old prince named Alexander defeated the crusader army and halted Catholic expansion into Rus' for several centuries...

After Bismarck's resignation, Caprivi, a career military man, was appointed chancellor. He was tasked with resolving colonial disputes with England and deciding whether to extend the reinsurance treaty with Russia.

On December 23, 1950, the jeep of General Walton Walker, commander of the Eighth Army, collided with a South Korean army truck that had crossed into oncoming traffic. General Matthew was forced to assume command of the army...

March 1944. Night. Seventy-six pilots escaped from a Nazi camp. Seven of the ten were soon caught and executed. But this escape was the most daring challenge ever posed to the guards and barbed wire...

This article reveals the history of information warfare in the USSR and Finland during the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940.

On June 26, 1928, the St. Roch set sail from Vancouver on its maiden voyage. The schooner's crew consisted of 10 men, only three of whom had sea experience and only two of whom had been to the Arctic. However, Larsen believed...

Remembering the greats of the century, we identified the 10 best automobile designers of the 20th century. Among them are Cadillac founder Henry Leland, the incomparable Henry Ford, the world-famous...

"Russian land" and modern versions of the origin of the word "Rus", a modern look at the Norman problem...

In 1868, the United States suffered its only defeat in history at the hands of the Native Americans of the Great Plains, a lesson Washington long remembered...

Why didn't Germany's military-political leadership give the order to use chemical weapons?

Today, as American and European "pirates" continue to seize Russian vessels on the high seas under trumped-up pretexts, one can't help but recall the experience of their North Korean comrades. In 1992...

In the Romanian-Bulgarian conflict, Russian diplomacy acted based on its understanding of Russian interests, but its actions contributed to the development of the Balkan...

In May 1985, five Soviet nuclear submarines passed through all NATO anti-submarine defenses and entered the Atlantic, remaining invisible to the American SOSUS tracking system...

On April 13, 1945, Soviet troops completed their assault on Vienna—an operation in which the army fought not only against the Wehrmacht but also against Hitler's orders to raze the city to the ground.

230 years ago, Napoleon began his victorious campaign in Italy. At the Battle of Montenotte, the great Frenchman achieved his first major victory over the Austrian Empire.

On December 19, 1949, the Pentagon approved a document providing for the dropping of three hundred atomic bombs on one hundred Soviet cities and the subsequent occupation of the dismembered country...

"The Dispersal of the Slavs," the first Slavic state of Samo. Can we find "traces of the Scandinavians" in our ancient history? The Rus' of Byzantine and European chronicles...

To this day, many are convinced that the last warriors of the 3rd Reich were the submariners of U-977, who surrendered in Argentina on August 17, 1945 and who are persistently credited with delivering Hitler and Eva Braun there....

On April 11, 1944, the city, through which the front line passed four times, was liberated in four hours – and this became one of the fastest operations in the history of the Crimean campaign....

For decades, the most fantastic “information” about... has appeared in Russian books, the media, various internet forums, and even in quite serious publications.

A textbook and reference book on artillery that served Russian officers for half a century....

In the Russian Empire, there were troops that moved faster than cavalry, attacked more quietly than infantry, and disappeared before the enemy had time to realize what had happened...