We remember your name as our own - 70 years ago, when Stalin died, this was the norm, but today it is nonsense or mockery ...

At the age of 105, an outstanding pilot and military leader, whose life is inextricably linked with the most significant milestones in the history of Russia of the XNUMXth century, passed away. Biography of Colonel General Ivan ...

For a long time, it has become common for us to believe that revenge is a dish served cold ...

Far away in Canada, in the city of Calgary, Alberta, there is the Glenbow Museum, which highlights the history of Western Canada, and not only. Well, this museum has a fine collection of Indian...

To make a shield, the young Indian had to kill an old male buffalo, because he had the strongest skin. He had to make the shield himself, but he could also ask the shaman to...

Andrei Kurbsky is the predecessor of the traitor general Vlasov, but of the Middle Ages. The libels of this murderer, written in a foreign land, formed the basis of lies about Ivan the Terrible. Kurbsky is guilty of the death of hundreds...

The story of how Demetrius became king and god, about his new victories and defeats, inglorious death in captivity...

By the middle of the XNUMXth century, almost the entire territory of the Western Roman Empire was occupied by various Germanic tribes that invaded its territory, who, having gained a foothold there, formed the so-called ....

The Red Army failed to carry out Operation Polar Star in February-April 1943 with the aim of destroying the German Army Group North. Underestimation of the enemy, poor intelligence, planning and...

How the Orthodox "Legion of Michael the Archangel" turned into the "Iron Guard" of the accomplices of Hitler and Mussolini...

Coastal batteries covered the entrance to the bay and the flanks of the Turkish-Egyptian fleet. The Turkish command was confident in the impregnability of its position, so the proposals of the allies were perceived as ...

The story of one of the most influential organized crime groups of the 1990s. Business and gang wars...

XIII century. Books began to be rewritten and designed not only in monasteries, but also in city workshops. Guilds of illustrators appeared, and with them marginals - miniatures in the margins...

Plutarch presented the biography of the son of Antigonus One-Eyed as an example of the fact that great vices can lurk in a great man ...

The image of an Indian, no matter what - steppe or forest, is associated in our minds with a bow and a tomahawk. Fenimore Cooper, and James Willard Schultz, and many others have tried to do this....

In four hours of battle, the Polish army was gone. Both Polish hetmans, dozens of prominent magnates and pans, more than 8 thousand soldiers were taken prisoner. The rest of the army was killed ...

The reasons for the failure of the Decembrists and the possible chances of winning...

Today we will again go to the American continent, and get acquainted with the collection of the museum, which no longer exists. It's about the completely unique private Higgins Museum, in which ...

210 years ago, the Prussian military award the Iron Cross was established. This award has become a symbol of the military prowess of the Prussian and then the German army from the time of the Napoleonic Wars to World War II ...

The Spartan general Lysander was the first Greek to achieve divine honors for himself...

Manstein prevented the defeat of the German army in the south. Achieved a major victory. The Russians were pushed back 100-150 km, they lost Kharkov and suffered heavy losses...

A whole period disappears from the military history of the Middle Ages, when chain mail, and later armor, was hidden by bright and elegant clothes. Actually, there is nothing at all about this in the textbook, and after reading it ...

Boudica has become an icon of British national history and is now a symbol of not only British freedom, but also the power of women...

In ancient Greece, getters occupied a fairly high position, sometimes exerting a serious influence on domestic and foreign policy...

70 years ago, on March 5, 1953, Joseph Stalin died. During the years of his reign, he completely transformed Russia: he accepted a devastated and destroyed country and created an advanced Soviet civilization, ...

In November 1978, terrible news spread throughout the world media: in the small town of Jonestown, in Guyana, more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple sect committed suicide at the same time, including 276 ...

Marshal Tito was quite sure of the deliberate murder of the Soviet leader, and, it seems, not only he ...

Ancient Greek poetry, not included in the Trojan cycle - military and lyrical ...

Ivan the Terrible is one of the greatest rulers of the Russian state. At the same time, his mother Elena Glinskaya and his second wife Maria Temryukovna were slandered. For five years, Elena Glinskaya has strengthened...

Secrets of the success of Stalin's industrialization. The role of foreigners. "Special" work of Soviet designers. What to do now...

The Greek Revolution affected the economic and strategic interests of the Russian Empire. With the help of the Greek question, Russia got the opportunity to solve its national tasks ...

In the Middle Ages in the north of Europe, and above all in Scandinavia, there were no land roads at all, and ships became the main means of communication here. It was in these places that the Normans lived - ...