In the 1807-1808, France was at the peak of her power. All of Western and Central Europe submitted to the will of Napoleon. His troops entered the capital of Portugal - the Portuguese government fled to ...

Soviet historians assessed the leadership of the Russian army in the nineteenth century, for the most part, as worthless. The only exception, in their opinion, was Kutuzov, who defeated Napoleon ...

The successes of the Russian army in the Baltic states and on the Karelian Isthmus created the conditions for a further offensive against Sweden, but these plans were interrupted by the war with the Ottoman Empire. Sultan under pressure ...

Brig "Mercury" got its name in memory of the brave sailing-rowing boat, distinguished in battles with the Swedes 1788-1790. The boat captured a large number of enemy ships and deserved ...

In 2004, a pillar with the inscription "The border of Russia from 1656 to 1736 r. Was installed on the old earthen rampart in the area of ​​the point of Mullovka, Melekessky district, Ulyanovsk region." Speech is about ...

The famous destroyer leaders Moskva and Kharkiv took part in the famous raid of a detachment of ships of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet on June 26, 1941 to the Romanian port city of Constanta. TO...

Svetoslav Vsevolodovich was born in the city of Vladimir on Klyazma 27 March 1196 of the year. One of the eight sons of Vsevolod Yuryevich the Big Nest, Grand Duke of Vladimir. Mother - Czech Queen Maria ...

In the twenties, there was probably no commander’s course “Vystrel”, the main “military academy” in the USSR at that time, of a more colorful figure than “Professor Yasha”. Judge for yourself: the former guardsman, ...

In 1944, the inevitability of the defeat of Nazi Germany was already evident. The last hope of the Nazis was the Wunderwaffe - "miracle weapon", the latest military technologies, ahead of their ...

16 April 2012 The European Court of Human Rights will deliver the final verdict on the so-called Katyn case. One of the Polish radio stations referring to the plaintiffs lawyer Mr ...

In 1710, Russia not only successfully launched attacks on the Baltic front (see the article - The Baltic campaign 1709-1710), but also attacked the Karelian Isthmus. Russian command ...

Alexander of Macedon (356-323 BC) received an excellent education for his era - from 13 years Aristotle himself was engaged in his education. Alexander was fond of reading the heroic poems of Homer, ...

Sergey Mironovich Kirov (real name - Kostrikov) was born in the family of a forester in Urzhum, Vyatka province (15) 27 in March 1886. Sergey was brought up by his grandmother, because he lost in early childhood ...

The Third Reich lasted only 12 years, collapsing under the blows of the Allied forces. In this case, the winners got really rich trophies, among which were the real wonders of technology that ...

Somehow, it is not customary for us, the Slavs, to speak about a person just good words, when his working life is not over yet, and the existence on our mortal Earth has not stopped. That is our nature. That ...

At the height of the First World War, in April 1916, a new submarine of the Bars-type, the Wolf, entered the Russian Baltic Fleet. To the submarine commander, senior lieutenant ...

The battle of Poltava became a radical change in the Northern War. The Swedish empire, after the death and capture of the main army, was forced on all fronts to move to a strategic defense. "Poltava ...

The cold war period is a global ideological, geopolitical confrontation between the USSR and the USA. It was during this period that the term “agent-mole” appeared in the vocabulary of foreign special services. And it is not ...

One of the little-known pages of military history is the planned landing of Soviet troops on the island of Hokkaido. What led to the cancellation of this already begun operation? The US administration has begun to ...

Relying on the colossal combat experience gained during the Great Patriotic War, at its final stage, the Red Army Intelligence Directorate began to improve service ...

25 June in 11 in the morning two boats set off from the opposite banks of the Neman. They agreed on a special raft. Napoleon told Alexander: “What are we fighting for?” It was a question that he himself ...

24 March 1791, a year after the Second Partition of Poland between Russia and Prussia, the national hero of the Poles, Tadeusz Kosciusko, solemnly announced in Krakow the beginning of the anti-Russian liberation ...

The heroic defense of Sevastopol during the Crimean War was led by Vice Admiral Vladimir Alekseevich Kornilov. His closest assistant was Vice Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov, who led ...

Fascist Germany, in addition to beginning the Second World War, is also notorious for its concentration camps, as well as for the horrors that took place there. The horror of the Nazi camp ...