Battle of Smolensk 4-6 (16-18) in August 1812
In Smolensk, the combined forces of the two Russian armies numbered up to 120 thousand soldiers. In Russian troops, unlike the Great Army of Napoleon, there was not the slightest sign of decomposition. Soldiers and officers ...
Napoleon himself noted the military art and the unbending will of Nikolai Nikolayevich Raevsky
The name of General Rajewski has been heard by anyone who has ever encountered the history of the Patriotic War 1812 of the year. Napoleon himself noted the military art and the unbending will of Nikolai Nikolayevich, saying about him: ...
Hero of war 1812 of the year. General Nikolai Alekseevich Tuchkov
You can often hear the phrase "bright historical era." Bright scale of events, greatness of personalities, the value of change. Undoubtedly, this time was the era of the Napoleonic wars and a few ...
White negros in European societies of the New Time, or should the English be considered a nation of slaves
In the near-historical journalism, the opposition of Russian slavery is quite common; freedoms in Europe. For example, on the pages of the magazine "Science and Life" historian Alexander ...
Little-known wars of the Russian state: the fight against the Crimean Khanate in the second half of the XVI century. 2 part
The outbreak of the Livonian War (1558 — 1583) diverted the main forces of the Russian army to the north-western borders. Crimean Tatars are not slow with the attack. Already in January, the Khan sent an army to Russia under the command of ...
With the "frenzy of the people" the invaders could not cope
70 years ago, 28 July 1942, the order of the USSR People's Commissar for Defense No. 227 was read out in the Red Army, which received the unofficial name “Not one step back!”. Why was he destined to make history ...
The first interrogation of General Vlasov
This document is preserved in an envelope glued to the album “Volkhov Battle”, which was published in limited edition in December 1942 of the 621 th propaganda company of the 18 German Army. He was in ...
Crusade to the East
30 years ago, 7 June 1982, the most significant event of recent history happened in the Vatican - the meeting of US President Ronald Reagan (the son of a zealous Catholic Irishman) with Pope John ...
2 August 1945 in Potsdam, the conference of the Big Three ended
2 August 1945, in the Berlin suburb of Potsdam, was completed the 17-day conference of the victorious powers: the Soviet Union, the United States and the United Kingdom. It was the third and ...
The feat of the division of Neverovsky under the Red
2 (14) August 1812, the battle took place under the Red. Smolensk battle began with him. After the unification of the 1 and 2 of the Russian armies near Smolensk in the central direction, some ...
Petr Petrovich Konovnitsyn. One of the best generals of the Patriotic War 1812 of the year
It is amazing how many brilliant military and government leaders gave Russia a difficult period of the 18th – 19th centuries. And Petr Petrovich Konovnitsyn occupies a worthy place among a galaxy of talents. By...
Vietnam and Afghanistan - two dissimilar wars
“The two largest and protracted local conflicts of the twentieth century”, “Afghanistan turned into Vietnam for the Soviet Union”, “The USSR and the United States switched roles” - such statements became canonical for ...
Little-known wars of the Russian state: the fight against the Crimean Khanate in the second half of the XVI century.
The successful actions of Moscow against the Kazan and Astrakhan khanates, the strengthening of the Russian positions in the Nogai Horde could not alarm the rulers of the Crimea and the Ottoman Empire. There was a threat to domination ...
Forgotten governor-general. Count Mikhail Andreevich Miloradovich
[center] The Serbian family of Miloradovich, originating from Herzegovina, moved to Russia at the same time as the associate of Peter the Great, Count Savva Lukich Vladislavich-Raguzinsky. Russian combat ...
Valery Shambarov: “Russia was richer than the West”
Domestic thinkers have seen one of the tasks of our country to divert humanity from unilateral development. A rubric about a distinctive, non-stereotyped image of Russia, its true ...
1 August 1914: Can Russian history reverse?
The anniversary of the start of World War I is approaching - 1 August 1914. In contrast to June 22, this day is not very well remembered by us, and yet it became a frontier, from which the processes began ...
Northern direction: fight on the river Svolna
After the victory of the 1 Infantry Corps of Lieutenant General Peter Hristoforovich Wittgenstein over the 2 Corps under the command of Marshal Nikolai Udino (for more details see the article VO: Northern Direction: Victory under ...
Bomb for gruppenführer
"Stirlitz, and I will ask you to stay!" Who does not know the catch phrase from the legendary television film "Seventeen Moments of Spring"! Or another replica from the same tape: “Nowadays, no one can be trusted, even ...
Descendant of Hetman Polubotka - Chief Gendarme of Russia
Lieutenant-General Vladimir Fyodorovich Dzhunkovsky was a man in whose biography tragic and comic elements intertwined most wonderfully. The descendant of the ancient Little Russian kind ...
Clerk
This case could occur in any military team, therefore I don’t name the unit numbers or units, but for imagery, I’ll say it was for us. In those age-olds ...
Battles on the distant approaches to Stalingrad. Part of 2
The 6th German army, advancing in the big bend of the Don, under the command of Friedrich Paulus, created two strike groups - the northern and the southern. The XIV Panzer Corps under ...
Hero of war 1812 of the year. Dmitry Sergeevich Dokhturov
One talented aphorist once said: "Heroism is the pinnacle of disorganization." Dmitry Sergeevich Dokhturov was one of those generals who managed to prevent such heroism among his ...
Ardennes-1944 as the terminus of the German military machine
The Ardennes offensive operation, conducted by fascist troops in December 1944 of the year against our Western allies, still arouses genuine interest among many lovers of military history ....
The first attack - the Day of the Navy of Russia
Junior Lieutenant Alexander Shabalin, after the consent of the headquarters of the Baltic Fleet, arrived from Kronstadt in the Northern Fleet in early August of 1941. The reason for the translation of the commander of the torpedo boat "D-3" ...