The rise of Khan Akhmat did not go unnoticed by Venice, which was waging a grueling war with the Ottoman Empire and was interested in an alliance with the Great Horde, and accordingly, attempted to draw it over...

The German Reich was facing a crisis worse than the Great Depression in the United States. Only a major war could avoid it...

Synthetic rubber is one of the most underrated topics in the history of World War II, although without some special grades it would have been impossible to create and use military equipment...

Napoleon won his wars not with a new system or a new cannon, but with a single change of plan: he stopped chasing fortresses and began hunting the enemy army in order to destroy it and thereby break it...

The result of the Franco-Chinese, Franco-Vietnamese and Franco-Siamese wars was the emergence of the "Indochinese Union", which included the colony of Cochin China, the protectorate of Annam, the protectorate of Tonkin, and so on...

Soviet submarines B-440 of Project 641 and B-396 of the Novosibirsky Komsomolets project – an inside look with photographs by the author...

The word "bogatyr" came from the East; its prototypes lived in different centuries and never met, but the familiar image of the three heroes at the outpost was created by the artist Vasnetsov...

A blatantly predatory war of conquest by the United States. The Americans prepared and provoked a war against a weak enemy in order to seize Mexico....

On March 14, 1970, the Columbia Eagle, which was carrying ammunition and weapons to the Thai port of Sattahip, where the American naval and air bases were located, was hijacked...

By December 1917, the old Russian army had disintegrated, and Brest merely legally formalized Russia's already accomplished withdrawal from the war...

On January 6, 1926, Deutsche Luft Hansa AG was founded. A story about the history of German civil aviation in the 20s and 30s and the "civilian" pilots of the Third Reich...

Peresvet's enemy had no name for almost three centuries – "Chelubey" was apparently invented by a Kiev monk around 1680 for the sake of sonority and oriental flavor...

In three days in September 1917, the Germans took Riga almost without a fight – because there was no one left to defend it except a handful of Latvian riflemen and other units that still retained the will to fight...

An excerpt from articles published in the London Magazine in the autumn of 1918 by the British Minister of the Navy, Churchill....

Legend has it that the monk Oslyabya was buried on Kulikovo Field, but documents from the late 14th century show him alive – as the senior metropolitan boyar and ambassador to besieged Constantinople...

At the end of August 1917, the cavalry corps marched on Petrograd to establish a military dictatorship, but disintegrated along the railway without a single shot being fired, and the only ones to benefit from this failure were...

One of the least-known of the Horde's khans is Akhmat, remembered largely for his stand on the Ugra River. Considering this man's active involvement in the international arena,...

This profession had many names, we called them gunners...

Leonty Bennigsen in 1812 and during the Russian army's overseas campaign. The last years of his life...

The famous duel between Peresvet and Chelubey most likely never happened – we examine how, over four centuries, the Bryansk boyar's name from the memorial list became overgrown with a schema, a spear, and the armor of artists...

Alexander I is arguably one of the most successful rulers in Russian history. He not only repelled the invasion of a united Europe but also led the Great March to the West...

In the summer of 1917, the Provisional Government launched an offensive with the army, which February had restored to it the right to discuss orders, and at Tarnopol this army exercised its right by refusing to go into battle...

The Turkic tribe of Torks guarded the southern borders of Rus' for a century and a half—and today, tales have grown around them about a non-existent academician, half of the prince's cavalry, and sensational excavations in 2024...

The Munich Agreement clearly and openly showed that the Western powers wanted to reach an agreement with Hitler at the expense of Soviet Russia...