As the Hungarian leader Miklos Horthy tried to regain the lands lost after the First World War, he fought on the side of Hitler and why the assessment of his rule is still key for the Hungarian ...

This article outlines the process of the development of armor in Western Europe in the Middle Ages (VII - end of the XV centuries) and at the very beginning of the early New Age (beginning of the XVI century). Material...

30 June marks 100 years since the birth of an outstanding world-famous scientist in the field of mechanics and control processes, general designer of aviation, rocket and space-rocket ...

"Russian Planet" tried to understand the complex history of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine Chronicler Nestor in his "Tale of Bygone Years" quotes Prince Vladimir, who baptized the inhabitants in 988 ...

The Crusades play an undeservedly small role in our history. It was as if they passed Russia - to Palestine, Byzantium, Egypt - side, like a slanting rain from arrows. Well, Prince Alexander fought ...

The declaration of war with Germany and mobilization to the front of the population of the Perm province met with a patriotic upsurge. Prayers were served in all Orthodox churches "about the sending of victory ...

The order and living conditions of the military in Russia until 1917 of the year The notorious housing problem spoiled not only Muscovites, but also many Russian military personnel. The problem of providing the military was solved ...

The beginning of the Russian-Turkish war led to the fact that the Russian coast of the Caucasus was under threat. Russian outposts, located along the eastern coast of the Black Sea from the St. Nicholas Post (at the very ...

The history of colonization by European powers of Asian and African countries is full of examples of heroic resistance of the native population, national liberation movements. But at the same time,...

The name of the Demidovs is very famous in our country. The history of this kind began with a simple blacksmith, who worked for the owner for one altyn a week, and ended with the owners of millions of people ...

The author is probably already tired of readers with the topic of the Dyatlova Pass, and yet I would venture to return to this topic again, but I will explain in advance the reason for which she was so fascinated by me. The author is not ...

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, narcotic drugs were perceived both in the West and in Russia with just ordinary drugs. The destructive consequences associated with them remained then ...

The Caucasian campaign of the Eastern war ended in a brilliant victory for the Russian army. Russian troops defeated the Ottomans in a series of decisive battles, took Kars. General Nikolai Nikolaevich Muravyov ...

During the years of the Civil War, the territory of modern Ukraine turned into a battlefield between the most politically polar forces. Ukrainian supporters opposed each other ...

Fedor Ivanovich Tolbukhin was born on 4 (16) on June 1894 in the Androniki village of the Yaroslavl province in the peasant family of Ivan Fedorovich and Anna Grigoryevna Tolbukhins. The family was large: four sons and ...

In the five days of the offensive, the troops of the 1 Baltic and 3 Belorussian fronts fully completed their tasks. The northern flank of Army Group Center was destroyed. Red Army...

By the beginning of the reign of Emperor Alexander II, the position of Russia, both externally and internally, was difficult. Finance has been brought to extreme stress. In the Crimea and the Caucasus were conducted ...

Soviet political leadership proceeded from the understanding of the inevitability of a global military conflict on June 22 and 1941 of the year Germany and its allies attacked the Soviet Union. As you know, the initial period of the war ...

During the Civil War, the intelligentsia of Ukraine demanded federalization, created an independent state and was defeated by the Bolsheviks. "Russian Planet" continues a series of articles on history ...

The main operation of the summer campaign 1944 year unfolded in Belarus. The Belarusian offensive operation, conducted on June 23 - August 29 of 1944, was one of the largest military operations in the whole ...

A lot of time has passed, but so far those events are being judged at the stamp level of 20 On June 1855, Eduard Totleben was wounded, one of those people who was called the soul of defense of Sevastopol of the Crimean period ...

Today, the majority of Russians associate political sentiments in Western Ukraine with rabid Russophobia. Indeed, in many ways it is. Much of the "zapadentsev", as in ...

In the context of the reunification of the Crimea with Russia by the anti-Russian forces, it was repeatedly stated that the Crimea was not originally Russian territory, but was annexed by the Russian Empire ...

Entering the First World War later than all the great powers, the United States suffered the least losses in it and received huge benefits from its outcome. Although by the beginning of the twentieth century, the United States owed to different countries around 7 ...