The Great Mistakes of the USSR: The Ethnic Question at the End of the Russian Empire
This article talks about the ethnic question in the late Russian Empire...
Franz Lefort. Friend, Advisor and Mentor of Peter I
Until his death, Franz Lefort enjoyed the respect of Peter I, and the Tsar ordered that the following be written on his tombstone: “At the dangerous heights of court happiness, he stood unshakably”...
The USSR is no more, forgotten...
Why is it impossible to reproduce the management system used in the USSR today, and the use of its individual “wheels and cogs” cannot not only solve some management problems, but only...
Egyptian Mathematics
In addition to papyri containing tales and teachings, as well as information from the fields of medicine and geography, the Egyptians also wrote down several “mathematical papyri,” the study of which made it possible to understand...
Feudalism and the Fall of the Byzantine Empire
What really destroyed the Roman Empire? This article will discuss this. It continues the series "Sieges of Constantinople"...
Knights of the Seals
There is a source of our knowledge of what medieval knights looked like, beyond effigies and miniatures. This source is medieval seals and their impressions, preserved on medieval...
Why did the USSR attack Finland?
85 years since the Winter War. The Soviet Union attacked Finland to secure Leningrad and the Baltic Fleet. Russia had to take back by force what had been taken from it by force during the Time of Troubles of 1917–1920...
On the Threshold of Afghanistan or Prelude to the Mission of Lieutenant General N.G. Stoletov
In the year of the Berlin Congress, another important event took place, connected with the difficult nature of Russian-English relations and Russia’s foreign policy in general – the mission of Lieutenant General N.G....
D'Artagnan's comrades
"Para-para-let's rejoice in our lifetime!" sing four friends in wide-brimmed hats, riding along a Parisian pavement (shot in Lviv). The King's Musketeers are the most famous of the units...
Field Marshal Boris Petrovich Sheremetev. "The Autumn of Life" of a Commander
Boris Petrovich Sheremetev: the unfortunate Prut campaign, the second marriage of the field marshal, the last years of his life and his descendants....
Russian army attacks
Mstislavl was taken by a brutal assault. Trubetskoy's regiments destroyed the Lithuanian army of Hetman Radziwill near Shepelevichi. The Smolensk garrison, having lost hope of help, capitulated....
Araucana - the symbol of Chile
Usually, the resistance of the Indians did not cause much trouble for the Spanish conquistadors. Detachments of several hundred "soldados" conquered empires, and through the lands of less civilized Indians they passed as...
How Fenimore Cooper's Heroes Fought
The words "Indian war" have become synonymous with guerrilla warfare. But there were also major battles between forest Indians (on a local scale, of course). The most colorful descriptions of these were given in...
The Peak of Field Marshal Sheremetev's Career
Field Marshal Sheremetev in the Northern War, successes of 1704-1710, triumph at Poltava....
Where did the Russian nobility disappear to in Little Rus'?
The Poles "seduced" the Russian nobility with political freedom, education, freedom of customs and rights that the gentry had. This allowed the Russian nobility to be completely Polonized....
1261 The Return of the Empire
The Romans set out on a campaign in winter. All the Latin fortresses were captured along the way. The winter was apparently mild that year....
Ivan the Terrible's campaign against Kazan 1549–1550. Completion of the military campaign
How Russian troops acted in the theatre of military operations and how the Kazan campaign of 1550 ended...
About the dates of Egyptian history
How do historians navigate the events that took place in Ancient Egypt? What grounds do they have for "tying" a particular event in ancient history to a specific date?...
"Hurray! Field Marshal Suvorov!"
230 years ago, after the suppression of the Polish uprising and the capture of Warsaw by Suvorov's troops, Catherine II awarded the great commander the title of Field Marshal....
Boris Aleksandrovich Turaev: a life dedicated to the history of Egypt
One of those people who laid a solid foundation for Russian Egyptology was B.A. Turaev, who left behind many students and followers, and works whose value over time...
Berlin Congress: Half Measures or Prologue to the First World War
The Berlin Congress has been perceived in our public consciousness since school days as the isolation of Russia and its refusal, under threat of war with the coalition of great powers, to accept the San Stefano peace; but in...
Gabriele D'Annunzio and the Aestheticization of Politics in Italy
The poet Gabriele D'Annunzio sought to turn politics into art, contrasting the Italian liberal elite with a "noble people" forged by war...
Ukrainian myth about the Baturyn massacre
The Baturin massacre of 1708, in which “Moscow cutthroats” allegedly completely killed the inhabitants of the Hetman’s capital, including women and children, became part of the “independent” Ukrainian mythology...
Shehzade Mustafa on a Persian carpet instead of an Ottoman throne - to execute, not to pardon
When father was "Magnificent", but I really wanted to take his place...