23 August - a memorable date in Russian history. On this day, in 1905, the Peace of Portsmouth was signed, putting an end to the hard and exhausting war between two Pacific nations. Feeling...

At the end of the 16 century, a series of disasters struck the Russian state. The lands were devastated by the prolonged Livonian War and the confrontation with the Crimean Khanate (the Crimean Tatars twice approached Moscow –...

Closer is the day when we will celebrate the 200 anniversary of the victory in the Patriotic War 1812 of the year and its main battle on the Borodino field, which has become an outstanding event in the national and global ...

What do we know about the Soviet-Finnish 1939-40 war? Basically, the fact that it was an extremely unsuccessful and very bloody war for our country, that its result was enormous ...

At dawn 27 August (8 September), the Russian army left the position at Borodino and moved for Mozhaisk, located near the village of Zhukovka. To cover the withdrawal of the army, Kutuzov formed a strong rearguard ...

The Russian Empire, in contrast to Russia, was able to attract foreign specialists. Talented foreign officers made a huge contribution to the development of the Russian army as a whole, and the most important ...

The Warsaw armed uprising of August 1944 remains the most controversial episode of the Second World War, especially among the Polish ...

At about 13 o'clock in the afternoon, the 4th corps (Italian) of Eugene de Beauharnais resumed the attack on the Raevsky battery. Napoleon, after capturing the Semyonovsky flushes, abandoned the plan to develop an offensive against ...

The retreatable strategy of Mikhail Bogdanovich Barclay de Tolly, unpopular either in the Russian army or in society, forcing the enemy to occupy a considerable territory of the emperor Alexander I to establish ...

After the battle for Smolensk, the Russian armies continued to withdraw in the direction of Moscow. On August 8 (20), 1812, a rearguard battle took place at the Nightingale Ferry. Platov's Cossack regiments (6 regiments) and ...

I was born in the ancient Russian city of Pskov and left it to go to university. But every year I went with my family at least once to my homeland. In those days, it was not at all ...

The main battle of World War 1812 of the year occurred on August 26 (September 7) at the village of Borodino near Mozhaisk in 124 km from Moscow. In French historiography, this battle is called the Battle of ...

26 August 1382. Khan Tokhtamysh’s troops burned down Moscow. After that, the Tatar troops captured Vladimir, Pereyaslavl, Yuriev, Zvenigorod, Mozhaisk and other Russian cities, laying tribute to them. 1382 hike ...

There was a dog. His name was Kadokhin. Do not ask me how this name appeared - I do not know. Kadokhin was a real grandfather - an angry, experienced, strong and daring soldier. It is difficult to say what spoiled him ...

On the night of August 24 1572, on the eve of the day of St. Bartholomew, mass beatings of Protestants began in Paris. The organizer of the massacre is traditionally considered the mother of the French King Charles IX Catherine ...

Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich is a man of amazing fate. Cavalier of all Russian orders, field marshal of Austrian, Prussian and Russian troops, savior of the crown of Franz Joseph, governor of the Caucasus, ...

Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky (1839-1888) is one of the greatest Russian geographers and travelers. Born in March 1839, in the village of Kimbolovo, in the Smolensk region. Parents of the future ...

The First World War became a real catalyst for the development of flight business and aircraft design. Starting this war with single reconnaissance flights, the aviators at the time did not even ...

23 August 1939 was signed a non-aggression agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union, it is also called the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The pact was signed by the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the ...

The clock on the medieval tower struck noon when I crossed the invisible line separating the city of the living from the city of the dead. When I was a foreign intelligence officer, I loved ...

He had only a vague idea of ​​what the policy of his administration was. If the staff of his administration did not prepare him in advance, he talked non-stop about Hollywood and while away the hours, ...

Any war has at least two truths, each of which corresponds to an understanding of the situation of one of the parties. That is why it is sometimes very difficult, even after years, to figure out who ...

22 August 1941. The State Defense Committee (GKO) adopted Ordinance No. 562 “On the introduction of vodka for supplies in the existing Red Army”. 22 August is the "birthday" of famous ...

More Napoleon Bonaparte annoyed at the impossibility of shooting public opinion from the guns. But not only the French emperor was forced to reckon with public opinion. In Russia, his pressure ...