Pavel Goinkis - creator of torpedo boats

Pavel Goinkis - creator of torpedo boats

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 ...
White Charm

White Charm

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 ...
What really happened to the son of Ivan the Terrible?

What really happened to the son of Ivan the Terrible?

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 ...
Three days in a besieged tank

Three days in a besieged tank

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 ...
Algeria and France: Divorce in French

Algeria and France: Divorce in French

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 ...
Monuments Must Generate Pride in Ancestors

Monuments Must Generate Pride in Ancestors

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 ...
Chinese Civilization and the Great Scythia

Chinese Civilization and the Great Scythia

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 ...
The Northern War: The 1708-1709 Campaign to Poltava

The Northern War: The 1708-1709 Campaign to Poltava

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 ...
Riot of the Volynsky Regiment - the beginning of the bloody era

Riot of the Volynsky Regiment - the beginning of the bloody era

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: "France can only have Russia as an ally"

Napoleon: "France can only have Russia as an ally"

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 ...
Lions Alcazar

Lions Alcazar

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...
Kuwaiti Prokhorovka - the tank battle of Easting 73

Kuwaiti Prokhorovka - the tank battle of Easting 73

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 ...
Popular resistance to the Swedish invaders

Popular resistance to the Swedish invaders

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 ...
Alexander II - death for liberation

Alexander II - death for liberation

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 ...
Immortal feat of the cruiser "Varangian"

Immortal feat of the cruiser "Varangian"

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.
"Mother of Poltava victory" - the battle of Lesnaya

"Mother of Poltava victory" - the battle of Lesnaya

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 ...
German Reichs. Second Reich - German Empire

German Reichs. Second Reich - German Empire

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 ...