All our ancestors, including the Neanderthals, and even their ancestors, warmed themselves by the fire. But when people began to settle in permanent dwellings, the fire turned into a hearth, which later...

The Allied command planned to quickly liberate France and begin an invasion of Germany. Ahead of the Russians...

On the night of February 9, 1904, the 1st Detachment of Destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy approached the outer roadstead of the Russian fortress of Port Arthur. The abundance of targets made the eyes of the Japanese commanders...

85 years ago, the USSR gained the upper hand in the conflict at Khalkhin Gol. Japan abandoned its expansion in the north, where the US and Britain were pushing it, and turned south...

This is the story of how one coup d'état set in motion a chain of events that ultimately led to the collapse of one great empire and the gradual decline of another...

In World War I, the percentage of wounded returning to duty in Russia was no more than 50 percent. In World War II, it was already about 70 percent. This is largely due to the discovery made by Alexander...

Almost the entire early history of Greece is a continuous movement of different tribes from one territory to another. First of all, this is a large-scale migration of tribes in the "Dark Ages", caused by such...

Have you ever thought about the fact that a trench for a rifle squad costs more than the entire pay of that squad for more than a year of service...

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth relied on cavalry in military terms for a number of reasons. It wasn't that there was no infantry there, but there was frankly little of it, and its quality was more than mediocre. But there were species...

70 years ago, the first military exercises in the Soviet Union under conditions of a real nuclear explosion took place at the Totsk military training ground in the Orenburg region. They showed that a trained army can...

At the end of the 19th century, attempts to reach the North Pole were ending in failure. At this point, Salomon August Andre, a Swedish engineer and amateur balloonist, entered the picture with the idea of...

How did the perception of royal power change in Rus' and when did the corresponding title first begin to be used in relation to princes, as well as why, recognizing for a long time the legitimacy of the Horde...

Who is Stalin and why is he important, both for our history and for world history, and for the present moment?...

Log huts were built on the territory of Russia as early as the 2nd millennium BC, that is, even before the places where they were built came under the influence of the ancient Slavs. And already at the end of the 1st...

80 years ago, the Red Army launched the eighth Stalinist strike against the enemy. On September 14, 1944, the Baltic operation began with the goal of liberating Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania....

Pausanias after the victory at Plataea – the second, much sadder and more controversial stage in the life of the Spartan commander...

The largest buildings in Rus' were constructed from centuries-old tree trunks (three centuries or more), up to 18 meters long and more than half a meter in diameter...

170 years ago, the landing of the expeditionary army of the anti-Russian coalition in Yevpatoria began. The invasion of the troops of England, France and Turkey into Crimea...

The strategy and tactics of the German blitzkrieg were born not so much from aggression as from acute need. But Hitler used it to his advantage...

250 years ago, Pugachev was defeated in the last major battle at Cherny Yar. "Peter III" managed to escape beyond the Volga, but was soon captured and handed over to the authorities by his own comrades...

The army of the Crimean Khanate is usually represented as a horde of horsemen with steppe-style weapons: a bow with arrows and a sabre. Often there is (mostly from the novels of Henryk Sienkiewicz) an image of a completely...

"Liaoyang Week" ended with Kuropatkin, having all the opportunities for success, giving the victory at Liaoyang to the Japanese. If Bagration or Skobelev had been in his place, the Japanese would have been routed...

Prussia gathered the German lands around itself "with iron and blood". That is why the story of the German army almost always revolves around the Prussians, Frederick the Great with his "oblique attack", Blucher at Waterloo...

Western ideologists and political scientists are solving a historical problem, classifying historical Rus' as "Asian". They say that even the slave system is more progressive than the Soviet "Asian mode of production"...