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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Where did the ethics of chivalry in the Middle Ages originate? Is it possible to say that it was the ancient Germanic military traditions that foreshadowed chivalry?...
80 years ago, troops of the Southwestern Front under the command of Malinovsky liquidated the Zaporozhye bridgehead, which was held by the Germans, and liberated the city of Zaporozhye...