Expedition to the ancestors. Difficult roads across two continents
It is believed that some of the Asian migrants moved along the coastal edge, between the ocean and the Cordilleran coastline. However, the shore there is nothing but rocks and cliffs, and strong...
Golden Age of Russian Nobility
About the development of Russian feudal society, in which modernization took place in the XNUMXth century. Continuation of the story about the evolution of the Russian state...
Expedition to the ancestors. Road between two glaciers
What made ancient, primitive people go great distances, cross rivers and forests and go to places completely unknown to them?...
“It’s not for nothing that all of Russia remembers.” “This day will remain an eternal monument to the courage and excellent courage of Russian soldiers”
The Russian army did not suffer a shameful defeat and, without losing a single field gun, disappeared under the cover of light cavalry, leaving Napoleon completely unknown where it went - to Kaluga...
Operation Suvorov. How the Red Army liberated Smolensk
80 years ago, troops of the Soviet Western Front liberated Smolensk and marked the beginning of the liberation of Belarus. However, the Red Army was unable to defeat the left wing of the German Army Group Center...
Operation Danube and NATO. Dissenting opinion of France
In the second half of the sixties, the North Atlantic Alliance was going through hard times and, if not a split, then a crack definitely appeared in it. We are talking, first of all, about de Gaulle, who was not going to tolerate...
“It’s not for nothing that all of Russia remembers.” “The enemy has never won an inch of ground with his superior forces.”
“Having given way to Bagration’s flushes and Raevsky’s lunette, the Russians stood like a wall; their fire was as strong as at the beginning of the battle."
Russian riot
250 years ago, the uprising of Emelyan Pugachev began. On September 28, 1773, Pugachev, who took the name of Emperor Peter III, published a manifesto, which granted the Cossacks ancient Cossack liberties and...
John Cabot. Another competitor to Columbus
The second half of the XNUMXth century is a special period in the history of Europe, including the era of great geographical discoveries, the emergence of the era of the Reformation, which ultimately led to significant...
“It’s not for nothing that all of Russia remembers.” Kurgan battery
Napoleon, seeing the failure of all his enterprises and all his attempts on our left flank destroyed, turned all his attention to our center, against which, gathering large forces in many columns...
"Jumpers." The most unusual and “mystical” gang of the USSR
They told terrible stories about this gang and sang: “Oh, an apple on the windowsill, dead people have appeared in Petrograd”...
Expedition to the ancestors. The most ancient migrations
The entire history of the human race is nothing more than one big and long journey...
“It’s not for nothing that all of Russia remembers.” Semenov flushes
After the retreat of our troops from the flushes beyond the Semenovsky ravine, the guard regiments became the support of our left flank. This fully reveals Kutuzov’s calculations...
How they were treated in Russia
260 years ago, the Pavlovsk Hospital was opened in Moscow - the first public hospital in Russia. The hospital was named in honor of the recovery of the seriously ill heir to the throne Paul...
Implacable enemy of the Spaniards Francois Olone
We are starting a series of articles about famous pirates of the Golden Age, and the first of them will be Francois Olone - the most implacable enemy of the Spaniards of his time....
“It’s not for nothing that all of Russia remembers.” Battery Raevsky
From the story of Paskevich, whose 26th division defended Raevsky’s battery, we learn that his division “for more than an hour” held the French in the bushes on the approaches to the battery and “only at 10 o’clock the enemy...
How Nikolaev Russia fell into the trap of the Crimean War
The aggressiveness of the French regime of Napoleon III caused delight in London. The British once again had the opportunity to start a big war in Europe and bleed their competitors...
USSR and North Korea: friendship that almost ended in rupture
The DPRK, along with Vietnam, not only half a century ago, but also until perestroika, remained the only ally of our country in the Far East. But precisely an ally, far from simple and not at all...
"The Fuhrer ordered the physical extermination of the Jews"
On September 23, 1943, the Nazis began the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto of Vilnius. Prisoners were deported to concentration camps in Estonia and Latvia, shot or sent to death camps in Poland. Only...
Unknown war. Colors of war
In our material today, we will deviate from the rule of including clippings from the Izvestia newspaper in the text and will talk about what was not reported in this, and other Soviet newspapers at that time....
Revolution of Peter I
About the result of the reforms carried out by Peter I. Continuation of the story about the evolution of the Russian state...
Monastery on the rock. Abbey of San Michele
All the buildings of the Abbey of San Michele are built on a 26-meter rocky mountain peak, and this mountain itself rises 960 meters above sea level. This place is located on the very border of the Cottian Alps and...
The disaster of 1917. The myth of the Bolsheviks who killed old Russia
Russia exploded like an atomic bomb in 1917. Historical Russia collapsed almost instantly. First of all, because of the charge of internal contradictions accumulated over centuries...
Adventures of the British on the Baltic Sea
The Russian-Swedish war of 1808–1809 is described relatively little in Russian historiography, and the actions of the English fleet in this war are covered only microscopically. In this article we will talk about...