The August forests are, as a rule, associated by the reader with the Winter Battle in Masuria (the Second August Operation) in January - early February 1915, when the Russian 10 th army suffered a failure ...

And now let's see how the knightly armor used in England from 1460 to 1485 looked all the same. By the way, this is not an easy task at all, since there are practically none ...

A prominent Russian military theorist of the turn of the XIX – XX centuries, General Nikolai Mikhnevich, who made a significant contribution to the theory of coalition wars, wrote: "For these wars are characterized by distrust, ...

The unprecedented battle of the Volga, which became a turning point in World War II, ended 2 in February 1943 of the year victoriously. Up until the end of the battle of Stalingrad, street battles were fought ...

The fate of Ivan Grigorovich - the naval commander, statesman and minister of the sea in the last government of the Russian Empire - was uneven. After death, he was unfairly forgotten, almost not ...

Peter Nirs and Catherine Monvoyasen - these people left their trail of blood in those eras in which they lived. Nirs showed his compatriots in the sixteenth century that hell could be on earth. The Case of Poisons ...

The operatives of the capital's FSB on a tip from Interpol attacked the trail of the transcontinental Lombard Mafia. Not long ago, an active member was detained at the Domodedovo airport before flying to Israel ...

7 February 1943 of the year, just 19 days after the blockade was broken, at the Finland Station still besieged Leningrad, thanks to the 33-kilometer railway line built in record time, ...

At the age of fifteen, the novice of the girl’s monastery ran off to a farce, at sixteen to a café, sang to merchants in taverns, and to the sovereign in Tsarskoye Selo ....

In the streets of Soviet cities in February 1943, for the first time, servicemen with shoulder straps appeared. It looked so unusual and even strange that many people did not believe their eyes ...

100 years ago, Romania, taking advantage of the unrest in Russia, occupied Bessarabia. Bessarabia was part of Romania for 22 years, until 28 June 1940, when Soviet Russia became stronger ...

155 years ago the Polish uprising began in the west of the Russian Empire. But the gentry did not succeed in achieving the desired independence - the Russian army and their own united against them ...

6 July 1917 G. around 5 in the morning began artillery preparation. Methodical fire, adjusting each shot, the batteries began to perform the tasks outlined in the plan, first checking the sighting data ...

On the pages of VO, we already met a number of European castles, including Czech ones. Still, it is the English castles that attract us with some kind of “their” purely British halo ...

8 February 2018 was the birthday of the great and truly iconic Soviet theater and film actor Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Tikhonov 90. He was one of the brightest and most charismatic ...

190 years ago, 8 February 1828, was born Jules Verne - the future world-famous French writer, a classic adventure literature, one of the creators of the science fiction genre ....

February 12 - Day of Military Glory of Russia. It was on this day in 1943 that a large group of Nazi troops near Stalingrad was defeated by Soviet troops ....

The so-called “Ferdinand Noses” enjoyed particular popularity on the Russian front of the First World War ...

The Guinness Book of Records mentions the war between the British Empire and Zanzibar, which occurred in 1896 year. That confrontation was not just among champions ...

780 years ago, 7 February 1238, the army of Batu stormed took the capital of Northeast Russia - Vladimir ....

A unique expedition was undertaken by 52 a year ago by Soviet submarines. They managed to make a round-the-world voyage under water, unnoticed by American means of observation ....

What were the tasks of the Russian artillery in the upcoming operation? ...

When you are standing on the seashore and you see an island far away on the horizon, then you want to reach it and see it, but what is there? The Aegean Sea in this regard, the area is especially fertile ...

100 years ago, in February 1918, the Turkish army launched an offensive in the Caucasus. The Russian Caucasian front has already collapsed and could not stop the enemy ....