“Treaty of Umar” as a relevant document of our time
Updating of a document from the first half of the XNUMXth century...
The death penalty was alien to the legal worldview of the Russian people
370 years ago, on October 30, 1653, in the Russian state, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich issued a decree abolishing the death penalty for thieves and robbers...
"Flash of Fury" How the US crushed socialism in Grenada
40 years ago, the United States conducted Operation Fury. The Americans overthrew the unwanted socialist regime in Grenada...
Russian Tsar Simeon Bekbulatovich
In the fall of 1575, Ivan Vasilyevich suddenly “stepped down from the throne,” losing it to the baptized Tatar “prince” Simeon Bekbulatovich for 11 months...
Expedition to the ancestors. When ethnography comes to the rescue
And how do peoples live today who are at approximately the same level of development as the people of the era of megalithic cultures...
The heroic death of the post of St. Nicholas
170 years since the Turkish army attacked the post of St. Nicholas. Most of the Russian-Gurian garrison died the death of the brave in an unequal battle...
Expedition to the ancestors. New migrations of ancient peoples
About the homeland of the Proto-Indo-Europeans, that is, where, simply put, they came from...
How Israel Almost Used Nuclear Weapons
70 years ago the Yom Kippur War ended. This conflict could go down in history as the first use of nuclear weapons since World War II...
Paraimos - the genocide that was forgotten
Everyone is accustomed to the fact that one of the most terrible tragedies of World War II was the Holocaust or Shoah. But when there is no one to stand up for entire peoples, genocide can go unnoticed. That's exactly what happened with...
Battle of Jutland. The largest and most ambitious naval battle of the First World War
Both Germany and Britain took credit for the victory in the grandiose Battle of Jutland, but both sides were disappointed with its results and results...
Ludwig Erhard – the father of the “German economic miracle”
Four years after the collapse of the Third Reich, a new state was formed in the territories located in the American, British and French zones of occupation (Trizonia), the Federal...
Expedition to the ancestors. Solved and unsolved mysteries of "Belly Hill"
Somewhere at the beginning of the XNUMXth millennium BC, the “Stone Age zoo” in Gobekli Tepe lost its significance, and people simply did not restore it and excavate it. Agriculture and cattle breeding...
Operation Brünnhilde: evacuation of the German 17th Army from Taman
After breaking through the Blue Line, the Red Army failed to encircle and destroy most of the German 17th Army. The offensive resulted in the pursuit and squeezing out of an orderly retreat...
Expedition to the ancestors. Finds on the "Bellied Hill"
Today we will talk about a unique place called Gobekli Tepe, which translated from Turkish means “Bellied Hill”....
The Forgotten Hero of the First World War: The Life and Career of Marshal of Italy Enrico Cavigli
Enrico Caviglia was a distinguished officer in the Italian army. At the same time, even in Italy he remains not very well known, unlike the same Armando Diaz. Why was his name forgotten...
“Who walks wounded under the red banner”
Nikolai Shchors could have become one of the best commanders of the Civil War, but he died “on takeoff” - at the age of 24...
About Russians and Slavs from the perspective of ancient history
On the long path of development of earthly civilization, there was no other people who would have left their mark on history under so many names...
Battle of Nations. How the Allies crushed Napoleon's power
210 years ago, Napoleon's army was defeated by the allied armies of Russia, Austria, Prussia and Sweden. The Battle of Leipzig became the largest battle of the Napoleonic era and in world history before...
The tragedy of Georgy Gapon
Georgy Gapon: November 9, 1905, emigration, return to Russia, murder by the Socialist Revolutionaries...
Expedition to the ancestors. The Nile flood is not a simple phenomenon
Nile flood. For the Egyptians, this was a real miracle and, it is clear that, not knowing its reasons, they tried to at least somehow explain it. However, they were not the only ones surprised...
Operation Danube. Romanian view
The transformation of Soviet-Romanian relations in the period after the Second World War and before the period we are considering, and even look a little further...
How Türkiye opposed the “gendarme of Europe”
170 years ago the Crimean War began. The collective West set Turkey against Russia, and then England and France entered the war to destroy the gendarme of Europe...
How Arab sheikhs created an energy Pearl Harbor
50 years ago, Arab sheikhs caused a global energy crisis. As punishment for supporting Israel in the 1973 war, Arab countries imposed an embargo on oil supplies to the United States and Western European countries...
Furious Gapon. Failed leader of the First Russian Revolution
In 1905, priest Georgy Gapon, one of the leaders of the workers of St. Petersburg, found himself between radicals and reactionaries, and each of these sides wanted blood...