It was so that the "Official Chronicle of Bern" was commissioned by the city of Bern to Diebold Schilling in 1474. About ten years later, he was able to present to the city council a three-volume work with colored...

Potions, voodoo, curses... Basically, nothing has changed in a thousand years...

The passing of the Western Roman Empire into oblivion was a severe blow to ancient culture, which was replaced by the culture of barbarians who migrated to Europe....

The regiments of Little Rus', together with the Russian army, oppose Poland...

210 years ago, Napoleon, under pressure from his marshals, wrote an act of abdication. On the same day, the Senate proclaimed Louis XVIII king of France. The Bourbon restoration is taking place...

One of the most famous pirate leaders in the Caribbean in the 1680s was the Frenchman Captain Grammont....

Any state power is a pyramid: at the top is the ruler, and at the bottom are those whom he rules to one degree or another. But how exactly was this rule carried out, what were they guided by...

There are many legends about one of the founders of the German school of geopolitics, Karl Haushofer - some publicists call him both the ideological inspirer of Nazism and an occultist allegedly associated with...

Metropolitan Alexy is the de facto head of the Moscow principality under Dmitry Ivanovich (Donskoy). The veneration of Alexy as a Moscow saint, his successors and the struggle for the Metropolis...

In 1943, the Soviet leadership completely abandoned the conscription of all indigenous peoples of the Caucasus and Central Asia into the army. This happened against the background of active propaganda of the multinationality of the Red Army...

The causes of wars in Europe at the beginning of the 19th century, and how they affected the development of Russian feudal society. Continuation of the series of articles about the stages of the country’s development associated with formations...

From the very beginning of the war, the Japanese tried to paralyze the activities of the Russian Pacific Fleet, since Russian ships were a threat to Japan's sea communications. The success of the Russian fleet could dramatically...

The Russian feudal class, the nobles, received at the beginning of the 18th century. modern technologies, both in control and in weapons, were able to prove themselves on the battlefield. The other side of the coin was...

The life of Alexander Aleksandrovich Serebrov, the first MIPT student to conquer space...

210 years ago, the Russian army forced the French to surrender Paris in a fierce battle. Allied troops solemnly entered the capital of France...

In 1937, official deliveries of Soviet weapons to China began, including the latest SB high-speed bombers, on which Soviet pilots were to carry out the legendary raid on...

Was Russia an empire at the end of the 18th – beginning of the 19th centuries? We will answer this controversial question in this article. It continues the cycle about the stages of the country's development associated with formations...

Judging by the letters, nothing has changed in a thousand years...

Makeevka Metallurgical Plant named after. Before the war, S. M. Kirov was one of the largest metallurgical plants in the USSR. He had to complete the entire reconstruction project drawn up back in the years...

Metropolitan Alexy actually ruled the Principality of Moscow from 1360 until his death in 1378, but he is not very well known in our country and remains in the shadow of Dmitry Donskoy...

440 years ago, Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible died. For a long time, a wall of black myths rose around this stern king. The Russian Tsar was accused of excessive cruelty, despotism and even madness...

They traded slaves, paid with shells and were friends with the Portuguese...

Thanks to his indecisiveness, perhaps also under the influence of the political guidelines of the Viennese court, Schwarzenberg missed the opportunity to completely defeat the French army at Arcy-sur-Aube...

In memory of Andrei Morozov, a soldier of the 2nd Guards Army Corps of the Russian Armed Forces...