Among the dictators of Africa, involved in massacres, atrocities and genocides, a special place is occupied not by an African at all, but by King Leopold II of Belgium ...

In 1638, Cardinal La Valetta and his brother had to go to sunny Italy. It is known that the cardinal himself had no desire to leave Picardy - and had every reason to do so ...

The wife and co-ruler of Justinian, whom local officials feared more than the emperor ...

The history of the Second World War largely repeats the history of the First and is its continuation. Again rising Russia tried to shoot down on takeoff. Again, the Germans and Russians were pitted ...

"Anthony's Scroll" or "Anthony Roll" is nothing more than a written account of the ships of the English fleet of King Henry VIII, which refers to 1540 ...

“Dogs, and after that you still want to live forever?” - so shouted Frederick II to his fleeing grenadiers after the defeat at Kolin in 1757. And indeed, after this defeat, he lost ...

We continue our story about children's knightly armor, and I would like to start today with a reminder that all this armor ... is not combat! ...

Liberian dictator Charles Taylor is less known to Russian-speaking readers than many other African tyrants. However, both in Africa itself and in Western countries, Taylor is quite famous ...

What are the ideological origins of Francoism and why do some historians equate it with fascism? How much does the myth about the superiority of the Francoists over the republic in armaments correspond to the historical ...

The phrase "The king is good, the boyars are bad" is well-known. Starting the article with this phrase, I would like to talk about the boyars, who in the Middle Ages sat in the Boyar Duma, were surrounded by Tsar Ivan IV. Story...

In Ukraine, Russian people were forcibly assimilated into "Ukrainians", who were forced to renounce their personal roots, ancestors, their history, language and culture, their own shrines, heroes and ...

The humanism of the 50s turned out to be a ticking time bomb and a dangerous reserve for the future...

After the victory at Pylyavtsy, the Russian troops of Khmelnytsky developed an offensive against Lvov and Zamosc. Warsaw was forced to accept the armistice...

On August 25, 1530, one of the greatest rulers of Russia, Ivan the Terrible, was born. About Ivan IV, starting from childhood, "know everything", except for the truth. Everything bad that happened during the era of his reign is attributed to ...

In 1637, Cardinal La Valette and Prince Bernhard von Sachs-Weimar parted ways. For the first two years they fought together and, in fact, were the only pair of commanders who managed ...

The siege of Breisach: how the impregnable stronghold on the Rhine fell in 1638 during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648)...

210th Anniversary of the Battle of Lützen. The first general battle between the French and the combined Russian-Prussian army of General Wittgenstein ended with the victory of Napoleon. The Allies retreated behind the Elbe ...

About the battles in the near suburbs of Moscow in the autumn of 1941 ...

The story of the life and reign of a dictator who was compared to Hitler for his cruelty...

Whenever a Renaissance European nobleman decided to order armor for himself, he was most often shown a drawing of it, which reflected all the main characteristics of the upcoming work, which ...

At the end of the XNUMXth century, European powers entered into a series of military conflicts, trying to prove their right to dominate the world. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people on the fields of war entered into a deadly ...

In response to the claims of the Rada, the Congress of Soviets in Kharkov proclaimed the creation of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic. This was the answer of the Donbass to the policy of bourgeois Kyiv ...

And the benevolent John of Ephesus called her "Theodora from the brothel", but the strength of character allowed the girl to radically change her fate...

Kyiv rebelled 910 years ago after the death of Grand Duke Svyatopolk Izyaslavich. As a result of the uprising, at the invitation of the people of Kiev, the popular prince Vladimir Monomakh took the throne. He updated the...

Not so much about Cardinal La Valette, but about the events of this year in general...

During the information war directed against the USSR and the period of the Great Patriotic War, a myth was created about “prisoners of the Gulag sent by Stalin to the front” ...

Scandalous Grand Duke N.K. Romanov. His folly and "treatment", successful entrepreneurial activity, death in 1918...

Jean Bedel Bokassa, remembered for his cruelty, cannibalism and many other eccentric antics...

It seemed that Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich Romanov had a bright future, but he went down in history as one of the most scandalous representatives of the dynasty...

Today we cannot travel back to the beginning of the XNUMXth century and see how the Battle of Pavia took place with our own eyes. But we can try to imagine it by looking at the beautiful tapestries of Bernard van...

Does Russia need a "new 1937"? The practice of denunciation in 1937 and modern denunciations ...

We need to find something unchanged in all historical epochs and, on its basis, create a new periodization of history....