As Kozma Prutkov said: "If you want to be beautiful, enlist in the hussars!" But initially, the appearance of the ancestors of the hussar units was supposed to cause horror...

120 years ago, the Russian Army, which had a numerical and positional advantage over the Japanese, lost the general battle at Liaoyang...

In the Middle Ages, there were generally many books, and of very different contents. The majority of them, however, were religious works. However, there were also books for purely entertaining...

The First World War acquired an industrial, machine character and became a war of a new type, in which the soldier was a “war worker”...

The Lucerne Schilling is one of the best known and best illustrated Swiss chronicles....

The reunification began with Ukraine and Belarus, and ended in Romania and Bessarabia...

Revolutionary upheavals in the Austrian Empire, the Hungarian Revolution of 1848-1849, suppressed by order of Nicholas I...

170 years ago, the British fleet attacked the Russian North. The British plundered and burned Russian ships, monasteries and villages. They fired at the Solovetsky Monastery, but disabled soldiers and volunteers defended the monastery,...

Napoleon III's foreign policy became increasingly adventurous, the emperor lost touch with reality, and it all ended with a catastrophic defeat in the war with Prussia and the overthrow of the Bonaparte dynasty...

In 1830, France was shaken by another revolution, marked, however, not only by a change in political power, but also by the end of the long Middle Ages...

Japan, having created the allied state of Manchukuo after its invasion of Manchuria, created there a system of harsh and petty police-bureaucratic suppression of drug addiction, so that it would be easier...

More than 100 years have passed since the death of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, but the debate still continues about what illnesses the founder of Soviet Russia suffered from and what actually caused his death...

Domestic military propaganda worked almost exactly the opposite in the national question...

France demanded that the Russian armies advance from Warsaw to Berlin. The French ambassador Paleologue literally begged Nicholas II to begin the offensive, otherwise France would be "inevitably crushed"...

The Pandurs gained fame as the best light infantry in Europe. And also as cruel and thuggish soldiers...

Having settled across the continent, Native Americans began to build their own homes from the materials that were at hand and accessible to them, and most importantly, that corresponded to the climate and natural...

The Pickelhaube or Pickelhaube is considered a symbol of the Kaiser's army. What is less well known is that the inspiration for this headdress was Prince Alexander Nevsky's father...

Why did the Soviet Army allow itself to retreat to Moscow? What was the reason for the abrupt change in the USSR's religious policy, which also occurred during the war? Historians still argue whether the...

An artistic device that allowed a literary work to acquire a documentary character...

A bestiary, a medieval book of beasts, was one of the most popular illustrated texts in Northern Europe during the Middle Ages and was a type of manuscript with images of both...

In 1945, Great Britain, being an ally of the USSR in the anti-Hitler coalition, was preparing a military operation against Soviet troops in Europe...

The domestic and foreign policies of the last emperor of France, who considered himself a socialist...

170 years ago, the Anglo-French fleet besieged and captured the unfinished Russian fortress of Bomarsund on the Åland Islands. And in Britain they dreamed of taking Kronstadt and St. Petersburg...

The Greek uprising of 1821, on the one hand, accumulated the geopolitical interests of the leading European powers in the Mediterranean and the Balkans, on the other hand, became a prologue to the First World War...