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...
Ancient German military ethics as the source of the code of honor of knights of the Middle Ages
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?...
Assault on the Zaporozhye bridgehead
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...
At a tea party with Beria. The main “adventure” of the special officer’s wife
From the memoirs of Blagoveshchensk police captain Nadezhda Yazeva...
TAM - the first post-Soviet magazine on interests
After regularly participating in All-Union toy competitions, and even with prizes, I received an official invitation to the next competition in 1981. And it was very flattering, but just flattery...
Storm of the Blue Line
80 years ago the Novorossiysk-Taman operation ended. The Red Army completely liberated the Taman Peninsula, creating conditions for the liberation of Crimea...
Yevno Azef. The great provocateur's own game
It is still not clear who used whom to a greater extent - the leaders of Azef’s Security Department or Azef’s curators...
Expedition to the ancestors. Neolithic colonization of Europe. Ancient plowmen among large stones
According to a number of British scientists, agriculture and cattle breeding entered Europe from the East about 9000 years ago. Then, 2000 years later, it reached through the Mediterranean and central regions...
The best gunfighters of the Wild West: Wild Bill Hickok - legend and reality
Contemporaries called James Hickok Wild Bill, and newspapermen and journalists made him a legend. Who really was one of the most famous shooters of the Wild West...
Yevno Azef, “king of provocateurs”
Yevno Azef received the nickname “the king of provocateurs of the XNUMXth century,” and Mark Aldanov called him a man who was “in a transitional stage to a boa constrictor”...
Expedition to the ancestors. Prisoners of river valleys. Where did they come from
People began to settle in the Nile Valley only when they had already fully mastered the Neolithic technology of stone processing, learned ceramics and began to move on to breeding domestic animals and...
Alexandria Egyptian
Ancient history of one of the oldest cities in the world from its foundation to its subjugation by the Arabs. The author pays special attention to the military-political role played by the city for ten centuries...
“The Russian Academy is given the opportunity to perfect and magnify our Word”
240 years ago, the Russian Academy was founded in St. Petersburg by decree of Catherine II. It was a free society of scientists and writers, the task of the academy was to develop the humanities, first...
The death of the "eagle". The last victims of the Battle of the Atlantic demand justice
Everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes in large structures, the mistake of one person can be leveled out by other people and the “safety margin” of the system itself... and sometimes, on the contrary, a small mistake can...
Operation Danube and NATO. West German suffering and Danish hesitation
CIA analysts foresaw increasing rivalry between NATO allies, which would further intensify due to changes in the perception of the threat from the USSR, as well as an increase in common...
Marina Mnishek. The inglorious death of the Russian Tsarina
Marina Mniszech failed to become the second Theodora, and “power did not become a shroud for her” - the proud Pole died without rights and a prisoner abandoned by everyone...
Defeat of the Russian army near Smolensk
390 years ago, the Russian army under the command of Mikhail Shein failed in an operation to recapture the key city of Smolensk. The Russians were pushed away from the city and blocked by the Poles...
Expedition to the ancestors. "Ritual Revolution"
Human life continued to develop and these are the changes that occurred in it after the domestication of animals and plants between the XNUMXth and XNUMXth millennia BC. uh....
Marina Mnishek. Trying to be Theodora
After the murder of her husband, Marina Mniszech refused to return to Poland and decided to fight for the Moscow throne, ultimately destroying both herself and her son...
Expedition to the ancestors: a stopover or agro-revolution on the ground
Living in the same places, people experienced difficulties in obtaining game, which became frightened, or even left the places where it was intensively exterminated. Helped me solve a problem...
Yom Kippur War. How the Arabs Almost Defeated Israel
50 years ago, one of the most brutal Arab-Israeli wars began. The war began unexpectedly for Israel, and it had to retreat, but after three weeks Israeli tanks were 100 km away...
The growing pains of American aviation. The tragedy of the 57th group
And American aviation went through a painful period of growth, which was sometimes characterized by outright failures and tragedies...
“The Black Sea Fleet will defend the strait against any enemy fleet”
A swift and daring operation to capture the Bosphorus in 1853 could have saved the Russian Empire from defeat in the Crimean War. The Russian Tsar developed a plan for the daring Bosphorus operation...
The career of Italian Air Marshal Italo Balbo and his role in the development of Soviet-Italian cooperation
The figure of Italo Balbo has been poorly studied in Russian historiography. Few people know that he was one of the key figures in the history of the development of Soviet-Italian relations in the field of aviation...