The basis of the Third Anti-French Coalition was the Russian-English alliance agreement signed by 11 (23) on April 1805. It was signed in St. Petersburg by the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia ...

It would seem that the history of the Second World War is investigated far and wide. Multi-volume monographs have been issued, thousands of dissertations have been defended. And yet, yet ... There are still "white spots", and other events ...

Karl, unable to overtake the Russian army, which was retreating from Grodno, and to impose a battle on it on his own terms, turned again to the west, began to pursue Augustus. The Swedish army moved from Polotsk ...

With the report of Nikita Sergeevich at the historic twentieth party congress, the era of the desecration of the cult of Joseph Vissarionovich, which was created during the entire period of his stay with the state ...

1992 entered the modern history of Russia as the first year of Yeltsin's “reforms”, when nobody interfered with either the “guarantor” or its team of “reformers”. The USSR was abolished, its main "grave-digger" ...

In the article "How Russia Saved Georgia from Persia", it was noted that in 1796 Russia organized a campaign against the Persian state. This military operation, I must say one of the brilliant ...

The war in Afghanistan claimed thousands of lives of the best Soviet soldiers, who devotedly served the ideals of their betraying Motherland — about this wording is estimated by modern politicians and historians almost ...

The appearance of Russian troops in the Transcaucasus (now called “occupiers” in Georgia) was preceded by a number of important events. At the beginning of the 1780 of Ali Murad Shah (the shahinshah of Persia in the 1782 – 1785 years, from the dynasty ...

The first treaties of Russia with England and France under Alexander I temporarily stabilized the situation in Europe. At this time, relations with the countries of Central Europe — St. Petersburg — come to the fore ...

The operation, which will be discussed in this article, is poorly studied in Russian historiography. There are clear objective reasons for this - the beginning of the Great Patriotic War was saturated ...

Soviet history gives us multiple descriptions of the horrors of military captivity during the periods of the Great Patriotic War, in the second half of the past century, materials from Soviet concentration camps were made public. By this ...

Immediately after the capture of the entire Neva current and access to the shores of the Gulf of Finland, Peter decided to firmly establish himself on these lands. Considering the fact that the Swedish Empire possessed powerful Navy ...

Probably, I was born to become a border guard. I was born on 28 May, the Day of the Frontier Guard, in the family of the frontier guard. But I, like all the boys of my generation, from childhood wanted to become an astronaut ....

One of the little-known pages of Russian history is one of the tragedies of the Northern War - the battle of Fraustadt. The Saxon-Russian army suffered a heavy defeat, and hundreds of Russian prisoners ...

The events of the beginning of the past century today are of particular interest to historians. As a result of declassifying and examining a multitude of documents, we will find out all new and, often, amazing, even ...

The Vietnam War, which ended 40 years ago, was a baptism of fire for SEAL units (acronym sea, air, land - sea, air, land. The word seal also translates from English to ...

In November 2001, after the bombardment of Al-Qaida and the Taliban, US forces launched ground operations in Afghanistan. Thus was launched the longest and ...

In 1705, Peter planned to take Vyborg and Kexholm to create a solid defensive line north of the Neva. But, "man assumes, and God disposes," the course of war within the limits of speech ...

At the end of the 19 century, the Russian Empire directed its expansion into the Maritime Territories of the Far East. A weakened China could not withstand the persistent influence of the Russians to the northeast ...

Top Secret Directive No. 21, which went down in history as the “Barbarossa Plan”, was signed by Hitler, the Fuhrer and Supreme Commander of the German armed forces - 18 December 1940 of the year ....

In Russia, speaking of the Great Patriotic War, they recall the defeats of 1941-1942, the Battle of Moscow, the blockade of Leningrad, the battle for Stalingrad, the North Caucasus, the Arc of Fire, and a number of others ...

The address: Tverskaya Zastava, house 7 is located Belorussky railway station, the building of which is one of the most recognizable among all Moscow railway stations. At the Belarus station of the Russian capital ...

I was prompted to the appearance of this material by an agreement between the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, KAMAZ OJSC and IVECO (Italy) about conducting joint work on the definition ...

One of the pages of the Great Patriotic War of little-known in modern Russia is the participation of Norwegian volunteers in the war with the Soviet Union. Since the invasion of 9 on April 1940, the Norwegian ...