The beginning of the specialized academic training of shipbuilders in Russia is 7 August 1862. Then a special order was issued by the Marine Ministry. Thus, in Russia it was ...
I clearly remember the day when I first read Bulgakov's “White Guard”. It was 1983 year. Winter. Probably January or February. I was given a book for several days. By a lot of crap. In the Andropov USSR ...
20 — 21 March 1814 was between the army of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Allied main army under the command of Austrian field marshal Karl Schwarzenberg at Arsi-sur-Oba. It was...
The Russian philosopher Konstantin Pobedonostsev, seeing in a 1885 year at the exhibition in St. Petersburg, a painting by I. Repin "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan 16 in November 1581 of the year", which later became known ...
This tank was supposed to support the advance of the infantry in the area of Podborje. But it so happened that he himself became a besieged fortress. It happened in the midst of winter and the yard was fierce ...
19 March 2012 of the year, for Algeria and France, a memorable date - 50 years since the end of a long and bloody war. 18 March 1962 in the French city of Evian-les-Bains was on the shore of Lake Geneva ...
Why are monuments needed? To bring up in citizens, especially among young people, a sense of pride in their ancestors, in their own power, and in their readiness to defend them with arms in the attack of the enemy. Me with ...
In the view of most Europeans, as well as citizens of Russia, the expanses of Southern Siberia, Altai, Mongolia, North and Central China have always been the habitat of the settlement of the Mongoloid race, but ...
It is written fairly that the revolution in Russia was “inevitable”. Others are unshakable in this and are still convinced. Indeed, the destruction of Historical Russia has been preparing for a long time, at least half a century, if ...
As noted in the article “Popular resistance to the Swedish invaders”, Charles XII planned to capture two strategic points in the Seversk region - Starodub and Novgorod-Seversky. But the squad ...
As a result of the defeat of the French in the Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871, the French Emperor Napoleon III was captured, and Paris had to endure another revolution. And 2 March 1871 happened ...
February 1917 was the beginning of the end of the Russian Empire and, as is common in national history, the military played a leading role in the development of events. Remembering the revolt of the Volynsky regiment, historians will certainly ...
Napoleon Bonaparte was thinking about an alliance with Russia long before Tilsit. After the idea failed to raise the peoples of the Middle East to the national liberation struggle and repeat ...
Adolf Hitler was obsessed with creating a superman who could replace the soldiers in his army. Therefore, in the 30s of the last century, he ordered the creation of research ...
The events of the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 continue to attract attention, especially in our country, since they largely resemble the situation of the times of the Civil War in Russia. In July...
After the defeat of the Fourth anti-French coalition, St. Petersburg again had to choose a foreign policy strategy. In the entourage of Alexander formed several parties. So his "young friends" ...
Oh, these tales, oh, these storytellers ... And how do you want to make an epic victory out of an ordinary clash? And here is how it really was: "The Iraqi command to ensure the withdrawal of its main forces ...
The invasion of the Swedish army into the borders of the Russian state was accompanied by massive robbery and violence of soldiers against civilians. Russian soldiers captured by the Swedes without exception ...
March, as Radzinsky believes, was a truly fateful month for Russian rulers. March afternoon, Ivan the Terrible died, Emperor Paul I was treacherously murdered, abdicated the last of ...
On May 10, 1899, at the Crump and Sons shipyard in Philadelphia, the official ceremony of laying the groundwork for a rank 1 armored cruiser for the Russian fleet took place.
The number of Russian army by January 1995 was over 2 million people, but very young and inexperienced recruits went to Grozny. Military command in the highest ...
After the plan of Charles XII’s campaign against Moscow failed, the Swedish king 14 (25) of September 1708 of the year moved the army to Ukraine. There he planned to give the troops a rest, replenish them with troops ...
Why the events described in the novel "Seventeen Moments of Spring" were not officially declassified There is a chapter in the history of the Second World War that is still covered with a veil of secrecy. It's about ...
Continuing the series of publications devoted to the topic of the German Reichs, and answering the question where the first and second Reichs have gone, we offer our readers a brief article describing briefly the key ...