Monarchy and the "Milyukov theorem"
About the events of November 1916, when the famous speech of P. N. Milyukov was delivered, which is often considered the speech-petrel of the revolution of 1917...
Armor, chains and crowns
Between the one-piece forged armor, in which we traditionally imagine Western European knights, and the chain mail armor of the “chain mail era”, there was a kind of “transitional period”, when ...
Lessons from naval battles of the Russo-Japanese War. View from France. Artillery
Discussion of the influence of medium-caliber artillery on enemy ships and the use of such guns on French battleships...
The Andropov plan and its collapse
On November 12, 1982, Yuri Andropov became the official leader of the Soviet Union. He understood that Soviet civilization had come to a new point of choosing the future. Andropov's plan was to converge...
Typical sallet or atypical sallet: continuation of the exhibition of "iron"
Almost all knightly weapons were made to order. And if a "knight of one shield" or a small-scale baron could still condescend to allow himself to come to the master and allow him ...
Lucius Cornelius Sulla. "The start of a long journey"
They said about Sulla that he was “half lion and half fox, and foxes in him are much more dangerous than a lion” ...
Tachanka, she is also a cart in Africa
nineties of the nineteenth century. South Africa, the Transvaal, Bechuanaland, there is no Rhodesia yet, but its ghost looms on the horizon, and it is to its creation that the diamond king, one of the richest, begins ...
Fierce oncoming battle near Smolyan
210 years ago, Russian troops under the command of Wittgenstein entered into an oncoming battle with the combined French corps of Victor and Oudinot near Smolyan. The battle was fierce, the village ...
For farewell - resign. To the 40th anniversary of the death of L. I. Brezhnev
How the Chinese minister suffered for pro-Soviet condolences...
How the Dons defeated the Beauharnais Corps
During the retreat of the French army to Smolensk, Russian troops inflicted a number of defeats on the enemy. Near Dorogobuzh, Miloradovich attacked Ney's corps, army partisan detachments captured Augereau's brigade under ...
Tragic "Game of Thrones" in Ptolemaic Hellenistic Egypt
Strabo argued that, since Ptolemy IV, each new king ruled Egypt worse than his predecessor...
How Ermak took Siberia
440 years ago, the Cossacks, led by Yermak, defeated the army of Khan Kuchum in a battle on the Chuvashev Cape. The Cossacks occupied the capital of the Khanate - the city of Siberia ...
Helmets made of iron: if you don’t touch, then at least look
Today, iron helmets will appear before the eyes of VO readers in photographs of exhibits from the most famous museums in the world ....
"The infantry ate itself and ate others, catching people." How the Russian militia liberated Moscow from Polish cannibals
410 years ago, the Russian militia stormed the Moscow Kitay-gorod. The Polish garrison remaining in the Kremlin capitulated. The co-rulers of the Russian state Trubetskoy and Pozharsky organized elections...
The day of the military parade on Red Square in Moscow in 1941
The military parade on Red Square on November 7, 1941 became one of the most symbolic and iconic events at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War...
Name on the map - pilot Dmitry Calarasi
Today we are witnesses and participants in the real war for memory. Which is sometimes ready to give us something and give ...
Miniatures from manuscripts about shields, "shields", stirrups and spurs
Barbarian Europe inherited shields from the warriors of the late Roman Empire. That is, they were mostly round and had an umbon - a metal hemisphere in the center, which was needed to protect the hand ...
Hellenistic Ptolemaic Egypt
The death of Alexander the Great, the Diadochi and Ptolemy Soter - the founder of a new state in Egypt, his first successors ...
What can dead babies tell about
Today we will once again try to imagine the process of improving the defensive weapons of the European medieval army, but we will only be based on another biblical topic, namely...
The ballad of the "iron hat" and the simplest balaclava helmets
Today our story will go only about the "iron hat" - an extremely popular helmet of the Middle Ages, and the helmets of the servilliers (which can be translated as "servant") and the bascinet before the transformation ...
Lessons from naval battles of the Russo-Japanese War. View from France
Discussion of the damage to the ships of the Russian fleet during the Russo-Japanese War. Possibility of using findings in the construction of ships for the French Navy...
"Let's go, brothers, and break it!" How 2 miraculous heroes of Kotlyarevsky crushed the 30th Persian army
210 years of the Battle of Aslanduz - a 2-day battle between Russians and Persians. A small detachment of Kotlyarevsky crushed the Persian army with a daring attack ...
Illustrated story about the hunting of noble ladies from a medieval castle
The role of women in society at all times has been exceptionally great, just because of the masculine nature of our society, it has not yet been sufficiently disclosed. Therefore, today we will deal with this topic ....
The defeat of the tank army "Africa" in Libya
During the stubborn battle of El Alamein, British troops broke through the defenses of the German-Italian troops in Egypt. Rommel gives the order to retreat...