Another column. Another source
In Rome, there is a column of Marcus Aurelius, executed in the Doric warrant. It was erected in memory of the victory of Emperor Marcus Aurelius in the Markoman war ...
Double barrel against genocide
Civilian weapons helped not only to cope with crime, but also to repel aggression ...
Trafficking soldiers. Mercenaries for America
In the history of European wars there are facts about which they are trying to keep silent. This, in particular, the trade in soldiers ...
How Ravu Russian stormed. Part of 1
Rava Russkaya is a city in Austrian Galicia, around which 23 – 29 of August 1914 turned up battles between the 3 and part of the 8 armies of the Russian South-Western Front and the Austro-Hungarian 4 Army ...
He saw the fall of socialism. In memory of Augustus Hayek
Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992), Austrian economist and philosopher, Nobel laureate, a consistent supporter of the theory of open society ...
Pyrrhic victory of the German army
21 March 1918, the German divisions rushed to the storming of the British positions. In the early days, it seemed to the allies that the 1914 nightmare of the year repeated. 174 thousand British were killed and wounded, tens of thousands ...
White outlaws, or who awaits Russian officers in Africa (part 1)
The funeral wreath on the heyday of "democracy" in South Africa lay down the news: the country's parliament by a majority vote voted for the expropriation of the lands of the white colonists without compensation ...
Cavalry exam
The South-West (Galician) theater of war in the 1914 campaign was the main one. Almost 2 / 3 of Russian armed forces and 4 / 5 of Austro-Hungarian were assembled on it. In their composition there were a lot of cavalry ...
Knights in the kitchen. Part of 1
What they drank and what the knights ate in their castles, how they feasted, how they kept food. Welcome to the knightly cuisine! ...
"We will break the gap, the rest will be by itself"
A serious drawback of the German plan was the rejection of the planning of the operation in depth after the breakthrough of the enemy defenses. Ludendorff declared: “We will break the gap, the rest will be by itself” ...
Sworn to darkness. Lupus hunting (part 2)
Vladimir Vinnichevsky and Arkady Neyland are two juvenile offenders who were sentenced to death. The execution of the second was contrary to the Constitution of the USSR ...
Private life of lieutenant Bochkarova
The life and fate of the George Knight of the Lieutenant, Maria Bochkareva, has not yet been sufficiently studied, which creates the basis for the appearance of various distortions, falsifications, and simply fabrications ...
Break through the wall without breaking a head. H. 3
The participation of the Russian troops in the Naroch operation in March of 1916 in March was the hardship that affected the subsequent tactics of the offensive in a positional war.
Way of Gorky. A century and a half to the great writer
March 28 (March old style 16) 1868, exactly 150 years ago, was born Alexey Maksimovich Peshkov, the future Maxim Gorky ....
Where female “Batalon” strides: what remains behind the scenes
In February 2015 of the year, the military-historical film "Battalion", dedicated to female volunteers, appeared on the country's screens. The film has awakened interest in the events of a century ago ...
Fiends on the Black Sea: the little-known crimes of the Nazis in the area of Novorossiysk. Part of 8. Final
On the morning of September 16, 1943, Novorossiysk was completely liberated from the invaders. Restore all the details of the crimes of the Nazis citizens could not ...
Admiral Vasily Yakovlevich Chichagov: The Second Arctic Expedition and Service in Arkhangelsk
Chichagov's expedition returned safely to Arkhangelsk 20 August 1765, and already on 22 August a detailed report was sent to St. Petersburg on its progress ...
Spring Offensive of the German Army
100 years ago, in March 1918, the last offensive of the German army began on the Western Front ...
The mystery of the death of Yuri Gagarin is not disclosed until now
What caused the death of cosmonaut number one? Why the circumstances of the crash are still a mystery? ...
The most expensive helmets. Part two. Helmet Hallathon
Helmet Hallathon - another expensive front helmet owned by a Roman cavalryman, originally covered with silver leaf and decorated with gold ...
Key to the Straits. H. 1
Dardanelles-Gallipoli Entente operation 19 February 1915 - 9 January 1916 was closely connected with the Bulgarian-Greek question and in many respects depended on the outcome of the struggle for the position of Bulgaria and Greece ...
Why Peter condemned his son to death
Like many reformers and perestroika after him, Peter I wanted to build a “sweet” Holland, an “enlightened” France or England from “wild” Russia. This led to a personal tragedy: the murder of a son ...
Gotland bout 19 June 1915 g. Part of 4. Carfat Retreat
Action picture of the 1 th brigade of cruisers M.K. Bakhirev and the detachment of Commodore I. Karkha ...
Military pensions: what has changed over the past century
The concept of "military pensioner" began to take shape many centuries ago. At the same time, the foundations of a material reward system for many years of military work were created ...