Darius III. The Fate and Death of the Last Achaemenid on the Persian Throne
Battles between the troops of Darius III and the army of Alexander the Great, the deposition and murder of the last Persian king...
"Our situation". Vast distances, arctic zone and long winter
Russia is not competitive on the world market due to its geography and climate. The only path to development is socialism in a single country and its own global development project...
Logistics vs. American Cavalry
Sometimes military decisions are influenced by factors other than purely military ones, which is understandable and logical. Logistics or weather conditions, for example, can not only change the course of a particular battle, but also...
Roads of the Gods. Official Science Doesn't Want to See Traces of Ancient Civilization
The current history of humanity was written in the interests of the Western masters. There are many traces of an ancient advanced civilization of "gods" on the planet. They are in America, Siberia and the Arctic...
The Bavarian army is the eternal second
The stereotypical image of a German is short pants with suspenders, a hat with a plume, a strange cry, which they call yodel... And beer, lots of beer! Meanwhile, all these are signs not of a German in general, but of...
The Bulgarian people greeted the Red Army with bread and salt
80 years ago the Red Army liberated Bulgaria. The hopes of England and the USA to occupy Bulgaria with the help of the Turkish army failed...
Ivan the Terrible - a treaty with the Lord
In 1581, Ivan the Terrible's son and heir, Tsarevich Ivan, died under unclear circumstances. The sovereign was very worried about his fate in the other world, taking steps that were possibly incompatible with...
A brick on socialism
The brick industry of the USSR before the war also suffered the consequences of sophisticated sabotage and was short of billions of bricks...
Hanseatic Cog. The story continues
In the mid-to-late 15th century, illustrators began to pay attention not only to the accuracy of the depiction of the clothing and weapons of their characters, but also to the depiction of the same ships, as a result of which they began to feature...
Unfamous war of the 17th century
About one of the little-known wars of the 17th century...
Expedition to the Ancestors. Petra – the City of the Sun
Petra is an ancient city that has survived to this day...
"Berlin was lost to us"
80 years ago, the British and Americans used airborne divisions to carry out Operation Hollandia to pave the way into Germany...
Ivan the Terrible's Campaign to Kazan 1549–1550. Preparation for a Military Campaign
How did Moscow prepare for the campaign against Kazan in 1550, what goals did it set, how many forces and weapons was it able to gather?...
The Legend of the Russian Joan of Arc
During the uprising of Stepan Razin, the peasant widow Alena from the village of Vyezdnaya Sloboda, near Arzamas, who had gone to a monastery and taken monastic vows, left the monastery and became one of the leaders...
Darius III. The last Achaemenid on the Persian throne
Darius III traditionally remains in the shadow of his great opponent Alexander and is only a secondary character in stories about him, a tradition established by ancient authors...
"We will fight to the last!"
170 years ago, the famous heroic 349-day defense of Sevastopol began. The "Russian Troy" will break the enemy's plans for the complete defeat of Russia...
How to Catch Hitler by the Tongue
Hitler lied a lot and daringly. However, an analysis of his lies allows us to get to his real plans, which he was afraid to entrust to paper...
Star of the Baltic Coast
On April 9, 1945, Königsberg, the coronation site of the Prussian kings, was captured in a masterful assault. During the four-day battle, the Red Army lost more than 9 people killed here....
Men of Bronze: The Weaponry of Greek Hoplites in the Classical Era
What did Greek hoplites wear and fight with in the so-called "classical era"...
“The bayonets have done their job well, but the rifle butts are also Russian!”
170 years ago, the Russian army suffered its first major defeat in the Crimean War on the Alma River. The expeditionary army of England, France and Turkey opened the way to Sevastopol...
Ivan the Terrible: Tsarist Service on the Edge of the Abyss
In 1547, Ivan IV shouldered the heavy burden of royal service, which he possibly viewed from a sacred point of view, onto his still weak shoulders...
Expedition to the Ancestors. Ziggurat – One of the Ways to Reach the Sky
Striving for the heavens, people began to conduct their religious cults on high ground, and where there were none, they began to build semblances of mountains and hills. In ancient Mesopotamia, these were...
Russian America Shelikhova and Baranova
240 years ago Grigory Shelikhov founded the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska. He decided to expand Russian possessions on the northwestern coast of America from the Bering Strait to California....
Artaxerxes I, the Merciful and Long-Armed
The fifth king of the Achaemenid Empire received flattering reviews from authors of other nations, which does not happen often...