Demob lucky
That was a long time ago, in those days when there was no longer a union president, and our young republic did not yet have a president of its own. The term of my two-year service in the rank of guard sergeant was approaching ...
14 August 1775 Zaporozhskaya Sich was disbanded by decree of Empress Catherine II
On August 14, 1775, by the decree of the Russian Empress Catherine II, the Zaporozhye Sich was finally abolished. After the reunification of a significant part of Little Russia with the Russian state in 1654, ...
On August 14, 1941, the Atlantic Charter was signed
14 August 1941 American President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on board the English battleship Prince of Wales in the bay of Argentia (Newfoundland) signed ...
Hero Borodino General Vasily Grigorievich Kostenetsky
Writing about artillery commanders is especially interesting, if only because some skinny Corsican artilleryman conquered all of Europe. There is something in them besides the glorified military prowess, something ...
13 August 1822, the sovereign Alexander I signed the rescript Alexander I signed the rescript "On the prohibition of secret societies and Masonic lodges"
13 August 1822. Tsar Alexander I signed a rescript “On the prohibition of secret societies and Masonic lodges”. Masonic lodges in Russia emerged in the first half of the 18 century. They were forbidden under Catherine ...
Hero Borodino General Alexander Ivanovich Kutaisov
By the era of Napoleonic artillery became a kind of military, often deciding the outcome of battles. It is clear how much responsibility lay on those who commanded the most destructive weapons of the time ....
Gifts of the Danaians
If the enemy does not give up, it is decomposed? 95 years ago (9 August 1917 of the year) in the occupied German army of Belgium, the Germans declared the state Flemish language. This Russian history is ...
108 meters: submarine "Kursk"
- What happened to the submarine Kursk? - She drowned From an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin Larry King Twelve years ago, 12 August 2000, one of the worst disasters occurred in ...
12 August 1323. The first official peace treaty between Novgorod and Sweden was concluded.
12 August 1323 on Orekhoviy Island, in the fortress Oreshek (Orekhovets), in the source of the Neva, the first official peace treaty was concluded between Mr. Novgorod and the Swedish kingdom. Him...
The last battle of the era of sailing vessels
At the beginning of the 18 century, the Ottoman Empire was a huge state that controlled the entire Balkan Peninsula, vast territories north of the Danube and on the shores of the Black Sea. But at the beginning of the XIX century from ...
Logical world history. The Great War was prepared in advance
When the passions around the next provocations to the anniversaries of the beginning (1941.06.22) and the end (1945.05.09) of the Great Patriotic War subsided, but the passions around the next provocations to ...
10 August 1792 in Paris a popular uprising broke out
10 August 1792 a popular uprising broke out in the French capital. The rebels moved to the residence of the king - the Tuileries Palace. French King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette, ...
Ferdinand Fedorovich Wintzgerode - First Partisan of the Patriotic War 1812 of the Year
There is no historian who would not recognize the partisan movement as one of the main factors of victory in the World War 1812 of the year. The huge role of both the spontaneous popular struggle and the army volatiles ...
Enlightened Europe: the mud and savage medicine
"Three Musketeers", "Black Arrow", "Richard the Lionheart", "Romeo and Juliet" - our generation from childhood was told about the great times of the Middle Ages, with noble knights (ha-ha), ready ...
9 August 1945. The battle for Manchuria began
9 August 1945. The Manchurian operation began (the battle for Manchuria). It was a strategic offensive operation of the Soviet troops, which was carried out with the aim of defeating the Japanese Kwantung Army ...
Cossack formations during the Great Patriotic War: a red star against a swastika on Cossack papakhakh
Perhaps one of the most controversial sciences can be considered history. On the one hand, there is a defining canon: people who are not familiar with their own history are doomed to become part of history ...
“All our strength is in ourselves”
The 185 anniversary of the birth of K.P. Pobedonostsev remained unnoticed in our country. Obviously, the unequivocally negative assessment of its activities, which dominates and remains unchanged in the environment ...
As carried civilization Slavic and other savages
On June 22, 1941, amid the victorious thunder of guns and the life-affirming Horst Wessel, 5 Breiviks crossed the USSR border to bring the light of civilization to the shovels at the tips of their bayonets ...
The war in South Ossetia: the information component of the conflict
Exactly 4 a year ago, there was a military conflict between Russia and Georgia, which has become the largest for Russia since the fighting in the Chechen Republic. Aggression from Georgia ...
8 August 1588. The British fleet defeated the Spanish "Invincible Armada"
8 August 1588, during the Anglo-Spanish War (1586-1589), the British fleet dealt a strong blow to the Spanish Invincible Armada (originally called La felicissima Armada) - "Happy ...
The first battle of Polotsk 5-6 (17-18) in August 1812
After defeat under Svolney, Udino’s corps retreated to Polotsk. The troops of 1 of the Russian Infantry Corps 31 of June (August 12) of August remained at Svolzhi positions. The next day, the corps arrived ...
Victor Talalikhin's night ram
Victor Talalikhin was born in the village of Teplovka in the Saratov province of 18 in September of 1918. The mother and father of the future hero were peasants. Victor graduated from 7 school classes, then he graduated from the factory ...
Plague in Paradise: Georgian-Abkhaz War 1992-1993
Magnolia Flower is impeccable. Refined and strict, snow-white-modest - without the bright multicolor, characteristic of the subtropics, full of purity and dignity. This flower is worthy only of the bride ....
The enemy is broken and cracked. He will not recover
The current discussion of the events related to the First World War, in its essence, reminds 90 controversies about the Stalinist repression. More recently, almost every corner said about "120 million ...