In his "Days," V.V. Shulgin saw the main reason for the collapse of the monarchy in the dispatch of guards units to the front, where they suffered irreparable losses. Therefore, defending the throne in the spring of 1917 turned out to be...

The history of World War II saw several naval disasters resulting from U-boat attacks, claiming thousands of lives. However, such well-known tragedies as the sinking of the Wilhelm...

The heroic three-month defense of Mogilev virtually destroyed the Polish-Lithuanian army's winter counteroffensive plans. Russian soldiers and Cossacks fought to the death, repelling all attacks...

The Nazis who came to power had a hand in the idea of ​​renaming the country, pushing the Iranian leadership to refer to the country in international correspondence as "Iran" (the homeland of the Aryans), rather than...

220 years ago, the War of the Third Coalition began. Napoleon, in the swift Ulm Campaign, crushed the Austrian Empire.

Professor Giuseppe Belluzzo was undoubtedly an extraordinary man: thirteen of Italy's largest warships during World War II were equipped with turbines designed by him, as were others...

In 1934, a 305mm coastal battery was built on Russky Island near Vladivostok, based on two three-gun turrets taken from the battleship Poltava.

The reason George Stephenson decided to build his first steam locomotive in 1814 was the same: the need to increase the profitability of coal mining. After all, Stephenson, like his father, lived by...

The Second Opium War should be more interesting to Russian readers than the first. It was thanks to it that Russia gained control of the Amur and Primorsky regions. This is a rare case where our country, without participating in the war,...

Farragut's ships began moving and headed to break through the mine and artillery positions at Fort Morgan. The admiral's timing was perfect, as the rising tide pushed the ocean waters toward...

210 years ago in Paris, Austria, Prussia, and Russia signed the Holy Alliance. Russia ruled out the possibility of a major war in Europe for several decades.

It's no secret that the era of mass armies born of the French Revolution ended with the final salvos of the Iran-Iraq War; in turn, the Central Military District is raising the question of the advisability of manning...

370 years ago, the Russian army routed the Polish-Lithuanian forces and liberated most of Western Rus', with the exception of Lviv and Brest. Fighting had already begun in Galicia and southern Poland.

Bolshevik rule before the Red Terror. The instigators of civil war. The tragic "indeterminacy" of the Whites...

The conclusion of the series dedicated to the first tragedy of the Battle of Tsushima...

In early September 1943, Italy concluded a separate peace with the Western Allies. The Italian navy was to be interned in Malta. The German command decided to...

The "Mongol Horde" is a Scythian-Siberian-Volga clan-horde of pagan Rus ("pagans," according to Christians), who controlled a vast forest-steppe zone from the Southern Urals to the Altai and Volga regions....

The circumstances of the final days of those who, in the 20th century, began the extermination of the peoples of the world, and their accomplices. The list is compiled in chronological order of death...

Ninety years ago, on September 22, 1935, the USSR Armed Forces introduced personal military ranks for army and navy personnel, and the highest rank of "Marshal of the Soviet Union"...

In the mid- to late 19th century, Yenisei Governorate was home to many successful entrepreneurs. However, even among such prominent merchant families as the Kytmanovs, Balandins, and Danilovs...

On August 5, 1864, during the American Civil War, a Union fleet commanded by David Farragut overran a well-defended Confederate position at the entrance to Mobile Bay and then inflicted...

Was there, or could there have been, some kind of symbiosis between the agricultural Slavic ethnic groups and the nomads of the Balkans?

Sarmatian sword with a chalcedony pommel....

World War II was, among other things, a war of ideologies and values. This opened up unprecedented opportunities for propaganda, transforming it into a "special theater of war."