There are armies that have a glory equal to their state. Russian, French or Spanish are a clear example. But there are exceptions: the army of the imperial principality of Hesse-Kassel is just about that!...

170 years ago, on October 17, 1854, the first bombardment of Sevastopol began. On this day, the organizer of the Sevastopol defense, Vice-Admiral Vladimir Kornilov, died on Malakhov Kurgan....

Oka Gorodovikov is a Don Cossack of Kalmyk origin, a friend and comrade of Budyonny, who became a Soviet colonel general...

Desertion is an unsightly phenomenon, which no army would be proud of. But in colonial wars, as Kipling aptly noted: "The reasons for desertion are easy for a soldier to understand. For us they are...

The Antikythera Mechanism, found in 1901 off the island of Antikythera, is in a sense the first analog computer known to man....

The Japanese set themselves the task of eliminating opium smoking in Taiwan within 50 years. The most interesting thing is that they accomplished this task within the allotted time. [/center]...

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Germany faced three challenges: creating a navy to protect the coast, a navy to protect maritime trade, and a navy for operations in the oceans. Under von Stosche, there was...

The long-held notions about the era of Alexei Mikhailovich as something decadent and sleepy are now being destroyed, retreating before the opening palette of grandiose plans of the so-called Quietest...

Today we will talk about why Leonardo often abandoned his works unfinished, and what failed masterpiece Michelangelo "trolled" him about....

60 years ago Nikita Khrushchev was dismissed. The Soviet nomenklatura, wanting stability, sent the maize grower into retirement....

In 1873, a new plan for building a fleet was presented to the Reichstag. All this pleasure was to cost 218 marks...

How could the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Plant be built and not immediately after that the similar Orsk-Khalilovsky Metallurgical Plant be built? But Comrade Frankfurt did, and paid for it...

The real feat of Kozma Kryuchkov and the legend invented by journalists....

Today we will talk about one of the most ancient palace conspiracies, the details of which history has preserved for us....

Christian priests were often warriors, but many made careers in politics, sometimes calling for civil war...

Vlasov's betrayal, his service to the Nazi authorities of Germany, the inglorious end of the life of the traitor and his accomplices....

To what extent do the ideas about the First World War as a conflict that completed the process of Risorgimento – the unification of Italy – correspond to reality?...

When a country grows up, it wants a navy. Prussia entered puberty in 1864. At that time, the Prussians were fighting another war with Denmark, and suddenly they discovered...

According to the famous Soviet science fiction writer A. Kazantsev, South America is the cradle of the planet's most ancient civilizations....

Translation of an article published in the Los Angeles Times about the Pentagon's training of specialists to destroy the USSR during the perestroika years, with comments from the translator......

30 years ago, on October 11, 1994, Russia experienced a precipitous fall of the ruble against the dollar, the so-called "Black Tuesday". An export-raw materials-dependent economic model is being formed,...

Boris Godunov, elected tsar by the Zemsky Sobor, was nevertheless a “fake” autocrat in the eyes of his subjects; about the reasons for this attitude towards him and about the unsuccessful attempts of the sovereign himself to correct...

Attempts at decommunization and de-Sovietization in modern Russia. Ideological inspirers of modern Vlasovites. Vlasov's life before he surrendered....

A significant part of the history of our state should be devoted to the construction of defensive lines in the southeast. In fact, it was almost continuous, required a lot of forces and resources and...